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Düsseldorf's Takashi Uchino celebrates with Ao Tanaka after his goal to make it 0:2

Photo: Noah Wedel / IMAGO

Fortuna Düsseldorf has put in a convincing performance in the promotion race of the 2nd Bundesliga.

The cup semi-finalist won 4-0 (1-0) at bottom-placed VfL Osnabrück on Friday evening and pushed Hamburger SV out of the relegation spot for the time being.

SC Paderborn, on the other hand, missed the great opportunity to temporarily overtake HSV.

The Paderborn team lost 1:2 (0:0) against Eintracht Braunschweig.

Braunschweig, on the other hand, is collecting important points in the fight against relegation.

The Greek Christos Tzolis scored his sixth goal in the last five second division games and his 15th goal of the season overall in the 35th minute.

Takashi Uchino (60th minute), Marlon Mustapha (72nd) and Ao Tanaka (88th) added three more goals in the second half.

They gave Düsseldorf coach Daniel Thioune a successful return to the Bremer Brücke.

The 49-year-old was active as a player, youth coach and head coach at VfL for a total of twelve years.

Fortuna played very calmly, very confidently and had the better chances from the start.

Mustapha alone initially missed three of them (3rd/16th/30th).

The Osnabrück team didn't do enough offensively.

The promotion candidate from Düsseldorf was clearly better in terms of play.

Hasan Kuruçay (59th, hand penalty according to video evidence) and Rayan Philippe (80th) scored for the guests, who initially climbed to 16th place in the table and thus increased the pressure on former champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Adriano Grimaldi equalized for Paderborn (61').

Braunschweig, coached by Paderborn-born Daniel Scherning, played courageously - but was lucky that SCP attacker Sebastian Klaas missed the post with the best goal chance of the first half of the game (29th).

After the break it went up and down.

The guests took advantage of a blackout from Kai Klefisch, who deflected a Braunschweig free kick in his own penalty area with his elbow.

It didn't take long for Paderborn to respond after falling behind, but Eintracht, who had previously been winless four times, put everything on one card and was rewarded - but had to tremble again.

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