Hertha Berlin's desperate start to the season continued with a 1-3 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt.
Patrick Ochs gave Eintracht the lead after 11 minutes and Maik Franz made it 2-0 with 20 minutes remaining.
Alexander Meier settled the contest with a third five minutes later before Adrian Ramos grabbed a consolation for the hosts with nine minutes left.
The defeat kept Hertha - whose boss Friedhelm Funkel was facing the side he used to coach - rooted to the foot of the table with just five points from 14 games. eight points from safety.
The win saw Eintracht ended a three-game losing streak on the road to move on to 19 points in 10th place.
The first chance of the game went fell the visitors and led to Ochs giving them the lead.
Ochs got behind the defence to collect Nikos Liberopoulos's looping pass before shooting past keeper Jaroslav Drobny for his first goal since September 2006.
Eintracht nearly doubled their lead just seven minutes later as Ochs sent a cross from the right to Meier, whose shot went over the crossbar from 10 yards.
Hertha finally had a chance 13 minutes before the break, but keeper Oka Nikolov was able to deny Maximilian Nicu on a counter-attack.
Steve van Bergen kept Hertha in the game five minutes after the break, clearing Umit Korkmaz's pass before it could reach Ochs in front of an open goal.
But the capital club struggled to create anything up front and Frankfurt doubled their lead with 20 minutes left as Franz got to Ochs's cross from the right side ahead of Van Bergen and beat Drobny.
And it was 3-0 five minutes later as the Hertha tried unsuccessfully to play offside and Meier ran on to Chris' header to fired home.
Hertha pulled a goal back with nine minutes to play when Ramos ran onto a Nemanja Pejcinovic throughball and beat Nikolov, but it was too little to late.
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