Magdeburg succeeds in liberating
The 1. FC Heidenheim has mastered the mandatory task at the relegation candidate Arminia Bielefeld with difficulty and moves in the table of the 2nd Bundesliga close to the direct promotion places. With the 1-0 (0-0) win in Bielefeld on Sunday, Heidenheim reduced the gap to second-placed Hamburger SV to two points. Stefan Schimmer (70th minute) scored for the league third. Bielefeld, on the other hand, remains in the relegation zone after the third loss in a row.
The Heidenheimers had a hard time, hardly played on the offensive and had a lot of work to do on the defensive. Because Bielefeld played courageously and had a few chances: Bryan Lasme (33′) failed with a volley on the side netting (33′) and shortly afterwards with a header at goalkeeper Kevin Müller (38′). Jomaine Consbruch (34th) narrowly missed the goal with his shot. Consbruch’s next big chance, a shot from just a few meters (60′), didn’t land in the goal either, but was blocked by Norman Theuerkauf.
The failure to convert chances was promptly punished: Schimmer scored the winning goal for the guests in the final phase. After a long tee shot by Müller, the Bielefeld team couldn’t clear the ball, and Schimmer, who had been substituted four minutes earlier, scored to give Heidenheim a flattering victory.
Hannover 96 weakens itself: Magdeburg succeeds in liberating itself
Hannover 96 is in a serious crisis. In front of the first division crowd of 38,100 spectators, Lower Saxony also lost their home game against newly promoted 1. FC Magdeburg 1:2 (0:0). One point from five games – that’s the sobering result of the second half of the season after goals conceded by Baris Atik (48th) and Luc Castaignos (62nd) and a yellow-red card for Fabian Kunze in the 55th minute. Only outnumbered did Hanover still make it 1:2 through Louis Schaub (69th) and several clear chances in the final phase.
Hannover had two good chances up until the end of the first half, but then came out of the break completely unorganized. Magdeburg used this to score two goals and also benefited from two substitutions. Japan’s Tatsuya Ito prepared both goals. After stints at Inter Milan, Eintracht Frankfurt and Sporting Lisbon, the Dutchman Castaignos scored his first second division goal.
FC St. Pauli continues series: 5th win in a row against Hansa Rostock
FC St. Pauli won the explosive northern duel against Hansa Rostock and celebrated their fifth win in a row. The Hamburgers gave their coach Fabian Hürzeler a present for his 30th birthday on Sunday in an intensive encounter with a 1-0 (1-0) and inflicted the second defeat in a row on the guests. The victory further distanced the home side clearly from the relegation ranks, the Rostockers separate four points from the relegation rank. In the second half, the game started late due to pyrotechnics igniting and firecrackers being thrown in the fan block of the guests from Rostock.
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After a balanced start, St. Pauli captain Jackson Irvine (26th minute) gave the hosts the lead with a powerful header in the sold-out Millerntor Stadium. The goal unsettled the guests, who only came back at the end of the first half with three good chances to score. But the Rostock team failed because of Hamburg goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj, the crossbar and themselves. In the second half, the guests had a few chances, but overall they were too harmless to equalize.
After the break, referee Benjamin Brand only released the game after a delay of about ten minutes because fans of Rostock set off firecrackers and pyrotechnics and fired firecrackers into neighboring tiers where fans of FC St. Pauli were sitting. The encounter was considered a high-risk game because of the hostile fan camps and was accompanied by several hundred police officers.
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