Stuttgart, Germany – Monchengladbach remained within one 0 win at Stuttgart.
Mike Hanke's first-half goal gave the visitors a halftime lead before Marco Reus and Igor de Camargo each scored in the final 10 minutes to put the result out of reach and give Monchengladbach its third straight win.
Stuttgart has lost its last four matches to slip into the bottom half of the league.
Reus played provider on the opening goal, which arrived just after the half- hour mark, when his free kick was headed inside the right post by Hanke from the middle of the penalty area.
The visitors controlled the play for most of the match but didn't secure the points until the final 10 minutes as Reus found the net for the 12th time in league play this season after latching onto a through ball from Patrick Herrmann.
De Camargo capped off the win with a goal of his own three minutes later as Herrmann's low cross through the face of goal left him with a simple tap in at the back post.
Mainz 3, Freiburg 1
Mainz, Germany - Mainz tallied three goals, including two from Maxim Choupo- Moting, in the opening 17 minutes en route to a 3-1 win over Freiburg on Sunday.
The match got off to a flying start as Choupo-Moting scored in the opening three minutes before Freiburg was reduced to 10 men when Fallou Diagne was sent off for a foul on Adam Szalai inside the area in the sixth minute.
Eugen Polanski converted the subsequent spot kick for Mainz, and Choupo-Moting made it 3-0 in the 17th minute, leaving Freiburg no way back.
The visitors did manage to pull one goal back through Pavel Krmas in the 68th minute, but the club has now lost three of its last four games and remains on the bottom of the Bundesliga.
Mainz snaps a five-match winless skid and moves three points clear of the drop zone.
