😳 Red card and goal conceded: Düsseldorf suffer double blow | OneFootball

Actually, everything looked good for Fortuna Düsseldorf. After the opening goal by new signing Cedric Itten, Daniel Thioune's team had all the cards in hand to celebrate a successful start. But just a few minutes later, things looked very different.

After central defender Tim Oberdorf received a yellow card in the 39th minute, it only took five minutes before the Düsseldorf player was sent off with a second yellow. But that wasn't all.

In their shrewd manner, well-known from the last cup season, Arminia struck directly and equalized through Sarenren Bazee to make it 1:1.

Just seven or eight minutes after halftime, things got even worse. After a controversial hand penalty, Julian Kania increased the score to 2:1 for last season's cup finalist, before Joel Felix made it 3:1 in the 75th minute. As if that wasn't enough, Joel Grodowski increased it to 4:1 in the 78th minute, and Sam Schreck put the icing on the cake with a 5:1 in injury time. What a start for Arminia, what a disaster for Düsseldorf.

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