With their first derby win in two and a half years, Hamburger SV have come within three points of city rivals FC St. Pauli.

The hosts won 2-1 (0-1) against the league leaders on Friday evening in front of 2000 allowed spectators in the Volksparkstadion and climbed to the promotion relegation place of the second division.

St. Pauli, who have not won in four league games, remain at the top at least until Saturday.

Darmstadt 98 can pass the Hamburgers.

Sebastian Schonlau (58th minute) and Bakery Jatta (70th) scored the goals for HSV.

Guido Burgstaller (30') scored on the other side and scored his 15th goal of the season from close range.

HSV had not won the previous five city duels – four defeats, one draw.

With the win, coach Tim Walter's team is now promising in the promotion race.

"Full Lotte!" was Walter's slogan.

His team got off to a stormy start and had four chances in the first 20 minutes.

The brisk gait of his team impressed FC St. Pauli, who initially retreated to the defensive and hardly accomplished anything constructive in attack.

Daniel Heuer Fernandes easily mastered the guests' first shot on goal (16').

The clear superiority of HSV initially brought nothing.

So it was not the hosts, but FC St. Pauli who scored the opening goal.

After a corner by Eric Smith, Burgstaller was served the ball.

The Austrian striker had no trouble.

Even after the change of sides, HSV continued to set the tone and scored a well-deserved equalizer with a header from Schonlau after a corner.

The nimble Jatta finally turned the game in favor of HSV with his goal after a pass from Sonny Kittel.

The game remained exciting, but wasn't top-class.

Numerous fouls on both sides prevented that.

1. FC Nürnberg has at least temporarily conquered fourth place in the table and the crisis at Fortuna Düsseldorf has come to a head. In the duel of the former champions, the Franconians won 1-0 (1-0) on the Rhine and, after the third defeat in a row, increasingly brought the home side into relegation problems. Lino Tempelmann (2nd) scored the "Clubberer" with a long-range shot, which was deflected by teammate Nikola Dovedan, with the first dangerous action of the game to victory. Nürnberg increased his tally to 33 points and remains in the promotion race. Fortuna is stagnating at 20 points - and coach Christian Preusser, who came from Freiburg before the season, is likely to be thin after just one win in ten home games.

The Fortunes did not disappoint in front of 750 spectators against Nuremberg, but after the early shock they took control after just under fifteen minutes.

Khaled Narey (13th) against FCN keeper Christian Mathenia and Robert Bozenik (35th) missed great opportunities to equalize.

After the break, goalkeeper Florian Kastenmaier saved his team from going two goals down by deflecting a header from Christopher Schindler onto the crossbar (54').

Otherwise, almost only Düsseldorf played in the second round.