Kaiserslautern held on for a draw at home to Hamburg to move out of the Bundesliga relegation zone.
Adam Hlousek gave the hosts the lead in the 18th minute but Marcell Jansen equalised nine minutes after the break.
Kaiserslautern had collected just two points since the winter break going into the game, but this draw lifted them up to 15th place.
Hamburg, who had won five of their previous seven games, moved up to sixth.
The first chance of the game gave Kaiserslautern the lead after 18 minutes as Jan Movarek played the ball into the area where Hlousek fired a first-time shot in off the post.
The hosts had a chance to double their lead four minutes later but Srdjan Lakic headed wide from seven yards out.
Hamburg missed an opportunity to equalise after 24 minutes when Piotr Trochowski’s free-kick found Paolo Guerrero, whose header from four yards was stopped superbly by goalkeeper Tobias Sippel.
Sippel was beaten early in the second half, though, as Ze Roberto played a pass into space on the edge of the area for Jensen to run on to and strike a shot under the keeper.
Lautern pressed again as they looked for a second goal and Movarek nearly found one, but he could not beat Hamburg keeper Frank Rost.
Instead, Sippel was forced to make two more saves, from Ruud van Nistelrooy in the 82nd minute and Mladen Petric in the 85th minute, to ensure a share of the spoils.
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