2nd league
Aue (dpa) – The descent from the Erzgebirge Aue continues unabated. Against Holstein Kiel, the Saxons remained without a win in the eighth game in a row in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Kwasi Okyere Wriedt sealed the bitter 2:3 (0:2) defeat of the violets with his goal in the 90th minute. Previously, Nikola Trujic (79th) and Jan Hochscheidt (84th) equalized the guest lead by Fin Bartels (19th minute) and an own goal by Sören Gonther (38th) in front of 4788 spectators outnumbered.
While Kiel remained undefeated in the sixth game in a row and is safely in the middle of the table, Aue is threatened with falling to last place in the table this weekend if FC Ingolstadt wins against SV Sandhausen.
The Aue dilemma culminated within a few seconds. Prince Osei Owusu ran alone to KSV goalkeeper Thomas Dähne – and failed. In return, Bartels scored to guide the guests. Defense chief Gonther tipped the ball unchallenged to goalkeeper Martin Männel for the next Kiel goal into his own goal.
Could it get any worse? It could. Soufiane Messeguem (42′) kicked Phil Neumann in the calf from behind. Referee Florian Heft showed the red card. Outnumbered, nothing seemed to do for Aue. However, Trujic and Hochscheidt managed to turn things around until Wriedt dashed all hopes of winning a point.