Fortuna Düsseldorf has stormed to the top of the 2nd Bundesliga table and spoiled the debut of Eintracht Braunschweig’s interim manager Marc Pfitzner.

Fortuna won 4-1 (2-0) at the bottom-placed team to kick off the eleventh matchday and climbed to first place at least until Saturday. Braunschweig’s Lower Saxony rival VfL Osnabrück also suffered a painful defeat, losing 0-4 (0-1) at Greuther Fürth.

Düsseldorf’s Christos Tzolis (12th) and Vincent Vermeij (14th) quickly made things clear on Hamburger Straße with an early double. After Florian Krüger scored (59th), Jamil Siebert (64th) replied appropriately. Ao Tanaka (90th + 8) put the final point on the board. With 21 points, Daniel Thioune’s team is currently ahead of the Hamburg duo FC St. Pauli (20) and HSV (20), which is playing on Saturday.

Braunschweig, where Pfitzner replaced Jens Härtel on leave on Monday, remain bottom of the table with only five points after their eighth defeat of the season.

The game started about 15 minutes late due to delays in the arrival of the 19,333 spectators. And Fortuna picked up where it left off against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, coming from behind 3-0 to win 4-3 in a sensational game – it took just 15 minutes for the score to become clear.

In front of 9,978 spectators in Fürth, the game remained open for a little longer, but then became all the more one-sided. Julian Green (45′) gave Fürth a well-deserved half-time lead shortly before the break. Armindo Sieb (47′) made it two shortly after the restart, before Dickson Abiama (74′) and Tim Lemperle (76′) stretched the lead.