Hannover 96 has been able to continue its upward trend with great help from 1. FC Magdeburg.

Unimpressed by the fuss surrounding managing director Martin Kind, the Lower Saxony team prevailed 4-0 (2-0) after a spirited performance in the hapless promoted team.

Maximilian Beier (14th minute) and Luka Krajnc (44th) scored the first two goals, helped by serious defensive errors by Magdeburg.

Sei Muroya (56th) and Cedric Teuchert (90th + 1) ensured the final score in front of 23,908 spectators at the start of the fifth game day.

Coach Stefan Leitl's 96 selection improved to eighth place in the table with their second win of the season.

After the third home defeat, Magdeburg is in 16th place.

Hannover showed all their strengths early in the game: Magdeburg's goalkeeper Dominik Reimann had just cleared Beier brilliantly when Andreas Müller and Silas Gnaka involuntarily put the ball back on for the Hannover attacker.

When Krajnc scored a header, Reimann made an unfortunate impression with a half-hearted fist defence.

In the second half, Magdeburg pressed for the goal, when Muroya completed a counterattack worth seeing to decide.

Substitute Teuchert added in added time.

Strong Darmstadt

Hamburger SV suffered their second home defeat.

The North Germans lost against SV Darmstadt 98 2:1 (0:2) and thus extended their negative series against the Hessians.

Even in their fifth year in the second division, coach Tim Walter's team failed to win at home against Darmstadt (3 defeats, 2 draws).

Former Hamburg player Patric Pfeiffer (4th minute) and Phillip Tietz (7th) scored early in the game for Darmstadt.

The goals impressed Hamburg.

Ransford Königsdörfer scored the late goal (87th).

There were a total of four red cards in the game.

Darmstadt initially had to do without Klaus Gjasula because he saw the yellow-red card (59th).

For the hosts, Aaron Opoku was sent off just eight minutes after he was substituted on for a kick against Fabian Holland (64th).

Königsdörffer (89th) also saw red because of an assault. The protesting HSV sports director Jonas Boldt also had to accept a red card and switch to the stands.

The previously strong defense of Hamburg with the safe former Darmstadt player Daniel Heuer Fernandes in goal, who had only conceded one goal in four games, was almost run over at the beginning.

The fast switching game of the "Lilien", who attacked the ball-carrying Hamburg early on, presented the hosts with big problems in front of 43,943 spectators.

The hosts used their ball possession football, but mostly had to play wide against the well-positioned and poisonous acting Darmstadt defense and rarely had chances to score.

In the hectic second half, the North Germans couldn't get past the goal.