The 1. FC Heidenheim kept his chances of another season in the Bundesliga after a strong catch-up.
In the first duel of the “Dorfrelegation” with the SV Elversberg, the team of coach Frank Schmidt fought a 2: 2 (0: 2) after a two-goal deficit and has continued hope for the third season in the upper house on Monday.
Lukas Petkov (18th) and Fisnik Asllani (42.) put the guests in front of 15,000 spectators in the sold -out Heidenheim arena. Heidenheim was initially revoked the connection goal from Omar Traoré to Var-Check, but Tim Siersleben dusted in the second half to 1: 2 (62nd). Mathias Honsak (64.) equalized for the FCH.
Heidenheim starts like the fire brigade
In the run -up to the game, in which the two longest -serving coaches met in professional football, Schmidt had declared his counterpart to Horst Steffen as the “coach of the season”. On the other hand, despite the honor of his colleague and the better form with eight games without defeat, he wanted to know nothing of an advantage for the SVE.
“If you look at the latest record, I won’t come with a chance of 50:50,” emphasized Steffen. Since the reintroduction of the relegation in 2009, the second division clubs had only prevailed in three out of 16 duels.
And the Bundesliga club made a lively start. After a Elversberger Eckball, the ball came to Niklas Dorsch, who sprinted from his own half to the opposing penalty area, SVE goalkeeper Nicolas Kristof cure and felled (2nd) – referee Sven Jablonski correctly let them play. After further opportunities from Frans Krätzig and Adrian Beck cheered the guests.
Elversberg in front of the gate ice cold
Elversberg played through the ranks of the FCH and after the presentation of top scorer Asllani, Petkov completed the guests from Saarland. As a result, it went back and forth, but the better opportunities had Elversberg. Asllani used one of them to 2-0. The mood tipped on the Ostalb, especially since the supposed connection goal of Traoré (45.+3) was collected on the basis of an offside position.
Schmidt exchanged three times at halftime and, among other things, brought Paul Wanner, who was still running for the SVE in the previous season. The change immediately had an effect. Heidenheim was now much more active, Elversberg could hardly free himself.