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Stockfish failing to find the best move?

Here in this game at move 10 lichess.org/1GhikGuD/white#0 what stockfish offers is terrible compared to what my opponent plays and the rating is totally inconsistent. I don't understand why stockfish is unable to predict this move, but once played understand that this position is winning for black (although it was winning for white prior to that move).
Apparently it is hard to find. In my (mobile) browser stockfish stops the default evaluation at depth 20, but I can click the little plus to go deeper. At depth 25 it finally finds the move and flips the evaluation.

I guess the reason could be that Bd7 is with tempo, so any alternative appears to lose more material on quick inspection, so those lines get much less attention for efficiency sake.

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