Werder Bremen have been held 2-2 at Bundesliga bottom club Freiburg despite another brace from Claudio Pizarro.

The Peruvian striker was on target in the 29th minute and flicked home the second in the 53rd, but fighting Freiburg levelled from Cedric Makiadi’s header (32nd) and Jonathan Schmid’s shot off the near right post in the 70th.

Pizarro has 15 season goals, which include three braces and one hat-trick, but he also picked up a fifth yellow card and is suspended next weekend against Hoffenheim.

“We can not give up a lead twice. We lost too many balls,” said Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf, whose team acted too passive after Markus Rosenberg was denied by the post on the hour on Sunday.

Freiburg goalkeeper Oliver Baumann said: “We played well and would have preferred three points. But we can build on this performance.”

Bremen are fifth with 32 points and remain unbeaten against Freiburg since 2001. Freiburg are last with 17 points, but just three points away from “safe” 15th place occupied by Hertha Berlin.

Eleven of the 18 Bundesliga clubs are in trouble in what is expected to be a tough fight against relegation, starting with eighth-placed Hoffenheim, who have 24 points.

Kaiserslautern failed to leave 16th place (18 points) when they crashed 1-0 at home against Cologne from a 72nd-minute header by Albanian Odise Roshi two minutes after he went on as a substitute in the other Sunday game.

Cologne, who had Germany international Lukas Podolski sidelined with injury, got their first points of the year and first top flight win against Kaiserslautern in 23 years which lifted them to ninth (24 points).

Kaiserslautern were effectively doomed to their 10th winless game in a row when new hiring Ariel Borysink was sent off in the 40th minute of his Bundesliga debut.

Champions Borussia Dortmund top the table with 43 points from a 2-0 win at Nuremberg on Friday as title rivals Bayern Munich, Schalke (41 each) and Borussia Moenchengladbach (40) all drew.