Hamburg kept pace with the Bundesliga leaders with a convincing victory at home over Freiburg.
Marcell Jansen opened the scoring in the seventh minute and Mladen Petric made it 2-0 after 55 minutes.
It was Hamburg's third straight victory either side of the winter break, leaving them in third place.
Hamburg are still dealing with injury problems despite the three-week break, without 10 players injured, suspended or at the African Nations Cup as head coach Bruno Labbadia had just 13 professionals available.
The hosts grabbed the lead after just seven minutes after a long ball from their own half. David Jarolim passed out to the left side where Jansen blasted past Freiburg keeper Simon Pouplin from 16 yards.
Hamburg remained the dominant team and missed a number of chances, including Tunay Torun twice, and Jansen eight minutes before the break.
The visitors nearly equalised two minutes before the break. Hamburg keeper Frank Rost and Jansen ran into each other on Ivica Banovic's free kick, but Stefan Reisinger could not slot home from a yard out.
And Hamburg doubled the advantage 10 minutes after the restart. Torun sent a pass into the middle of the area where Cha Du-ri misplayed the ball and Petric was left alone to beat Pouplin from 10 yards.
Hamburg were closer to making it 3-0 than the visitors to pulling a goal back.
But Piotr Trochowski shot just wide from 20 yards in the 65th minute before Labbadia called off his troops.
Freiburg have now gone four games without a win and remained 14th place.
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