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In advance it was agreed that the winner could only be VfL Bochum.
The course of the 90 minutes finally confirmed this impression.
Only a few minutes had been played when Fortuna Düsseldorf gave up the game after Kristoffer Peterson was sent off (5th).
VfL Bochum took the lead with Danny Blum's penalty (6th).
Coach Thomas Reis's team was just one goal ahead at halftime.
The 2-0 was brought about by Robert Tesche when he met in favor of the hosts after a presentation by Blum (58th).
Düsseldorf made three changes in the 64th minute.
Edgar Prib, Rouwen Hennings and Adam Bodzek left the field for Dawid Kownacki, Brandon Borrello and Jakub Piotrowski.
From the 68th minute, the substitute for Gerrit Holtmann, Silvère Ganvoula Bochum enriched in forward gear.
VfL extended their lead by adding two goals to Robert Zulj (72nd / 74th).
VfL Bochum made a big change in the 77th minute with a triple change and sent Herbert Bockhorn, Thomas Eisfeld and Milos Pantovic onto the pitch for Simon Zoller, Zulj and Blum.
After the preliminary work by Bockhorn, Pantovic put the result to 5: 0 (92nd).
Ultimately, Bochum celebrated a well-deserved home win against coach Uwe Rösler's team after a convincing performance.
There is almost no getting past VfL's defense.
VfL Bochum had only conceded two goals so far.
Bochum remains without defeat.
So far, VfL has had two wins and two draws.
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Fortuna Düsseldorf is the most vulnerable defense of the 2nd Bundesliga and has already conceded nine goals.
So far this season Fortuna Düsseldorf has won one victory and suffered three defeats.
With three points in their luggage, VfL Bochum moved up in the table and now occupies second place in the table.
Düsseldorf is currently in the lower half of the table: 15th place.
Bochum is challenged again on Friday when you visit Holstein Kiel.
Fortuna will receive SV Darmstadt 98 as their next opponent on Friday.
This article was created automatically by our partner Retresco based on game data.