Fortuna Düsseldorf 3-1 Nürnberg: result and report

2. Bundesliga · Sunday 7 March 2021

Result

Fortuna Düsseldorf 3-1 Nürnberg

2. Bundesliga · Sunday 7 March 2021, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

Fortuna Düsseldorf · Nürnberg · 2. Bundesliga predictions

Fortuna Düsseldorf 3-1 Nürnberg: match report

Fortuna Düsseldorf defeated Nürnberg 3-1 in the 2. Bundesliga on Sunday 7 March 2021. The half-time score was 0-0.

Andre Hoffmann opened the scoring in the 48th minute. Fortuna Düsseldorf's goals came from Andre Hoffmann (48'), Marcel Sobottka (77') and an own goal by Oliver Sorg (90+5'). Nürnberg scored through Dennis Borkowski (62').

Discipline: Fortuna Düsseldorf received 2 yellow cards; Nürnberg received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Fortuna Düsseldorf were 7th on 36 points from 23 and Nürnberg 14th on 27 points from 23. Fortuna Düsseldorf went on to finish that season 5th with 56 points, and Nürnberg 11th with 44.

Fortuna Düsseldorf lined up in a 4-2-2-2 and Nürnberg in a 4-2-2-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Andre Hoffmann of Fortuna Düsseldorf (8.2), ahead of Johannes Geis (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Fortuna Düsseldorf wins, 2 draws and 5 for Nürnberg.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · Lukas MühlNürnberg
  • 48'Goal · Andre HoffmannFortuna Düsseldorf · 1-0
  • 62'Goal · Dennis BorkowskiNürnberg · 1-1
  • 77'Goal · Marcel SobottkaFortuna Düsseldorf · 2-1
  • 87'Yellow card · E. PribFortuna Düsseldorf
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Florian KastenmeierFortuna Düsseldorf
  • 90+5'Own goal · Oliver SorgFortuna Düsseldorf · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Fortuna Düsseldorf 3, draws 2, Nürnberg 5.

Team news

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Fortuna Düsseldorf line-up (4-2-2-2)

Florian Kastenmeier, Matthias Zimmermann, Andre Hoffmann, Kevin Danso, Leonardo Koutris, Adam Bodzek, M. Sobottka, Thomas Pledl, Kristoffer Peterson, Kenan Karaman, Dawid Kownacki

Nürnberg line-up (4-2-2-2)

Christian Mathenia, Oliver Sorg, Lukas Mühl, Georg Margreitter, Tim Handwerker, Johannes Geis, Fabian Nürnberger, Mats Møller Dæhli, Nikola Dovedan, Dennis Borkowski, Manuel Schäffler