Japan midfielder Wataru Endo steers Stuttgart out of Bundesliga relegation zone

Football
Published 21.05.2023
Japan midfielder Wataru Endo steers Stuttgart out of Bundesliga relegation zone

BERLIN (AP) — Japan midfielder Wataru Endo scored one objective and arrange one other as Stuttgart moved out of the Bundesliga’s relegation zone with a 4-1 win in Mainz on Sunday.

Stuttgart, beforehand second from backside, moved forward of Bochum (32 factors) on objective distinction and one level above Schalke with one spherical of the league remaining. Hertha Berlin, final on 26 factors, was relegated Saturday.

Stuttgart needed to recuperate after conceding within the twenty third minute, when Marcus Ingvartsen scored from shut vary after a Mainz nook.

Endo equalized on a counterattack after one other Mainz nook within the forty first, when Silas Katompa Mvumpa raced clear and ran half the size of the sector earlier than crossing for Serhou Guirassy. Mainz defender Edimilson Fernandes minimize out the cross, however Endo stopped the ball together with his left boot and volleyed it in together with his proper.

Chris Führich got here on in its place within the 62nd, arrange Guirassy with a nook for Stuttgart’s second objective within the sixty fourth, then scored himself within the 78th, after being arrange by Endo.

Führich wasn’t performed but, organising Tanguy Coulibaly to finish the scoring in harm time.

Borussia Dortmund might transfer prime with one spherical remaining with a win at Augsburg later Sunday, earlier than Bayer Leverkusen hosted Borussia Mönchengladbach to finish the penultimate spherical.

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