FCM wins point in Darmstadt
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SV Elversberg continues to play well in the 2nd Bundesliga and defended its top position with its seventh win. The Saarland team shone in a 6-0 (1-0) win against SpVgg Greuther Fürth and celebrated top scorer Younes Ebnoutalib, who now has nine goals to his name.
Bambasé Conté (27th minute) took the lead 1-0. Then Ebnoutalib, who had already scored twice in this round, shone with a hat trick (48th/56th/80th) in front of 8,483 spectators in the Kaiserlinde stadium. Jason Ceka (85th) and Florian Le Joncour (90th + 3) scored the final points for coach Vincent Wagner’s team.
After the fourth three points in a row, Elversberg leads the table with one point ahead of FC Schalke 04. The village club has now been without defeat for seven games. The Hoffenheim loanee Conté himself initiated the opening goal on a counterattack and took advantage of Lasse Günther’s cross. However, the 22-year-old had to go out injured at halftime.
The Fürth team had a hard time against the newly formed, but already highly organized and strong SVE. Immediately after the restart, the Franks suffered their next setback: Ebnoutalib made it 2-0 with a direct pass. Shortly afterwards, SVE keeper Nicolas Kristof saved with his foot against Felix Klaus, before Ebnoutalib again made the visiting team’s fifth defeat clear.
1. FC Nürnberg gives up victory against Holstein Kiel
A late header from Kiel defender Carl Johansson deprived 1. FC Nürnberg of their second win in a row. Despite many chances, the Franconians couldn’t get more than a 1-1 (1-0) draw against the North Germans. Johansson equalized the club’s opening goal in the 86th minute by Mohamed Alì Zoma (28th). Coach Miroslav Klose’s Nuremberg team missed out on gaining some distance from the relegation zone due to the setback. Kiel has remained without a win for three games.
In a game at a mostly manageable level, Zoma took advantage of a mistake by Kiel to make it 1-0: He ran onto a through pass from Julian Justvan and hit the ball under the crossbar. After his first FCN goal, the attacker, who was signed from the third Italian league in the summer, almost went one better with a direct shot: the ball hit the crossbar, from there to the goal line and bounced back into the field (42nd).
Even after the break, the 21-year-old Zoma stood out the most offensively. In the 50th minute, a shot from the Italo-Ivorian was misplaced. Shortly afterwards he was too surprised after a goalkeeper’s rebound from close range and shot over (57′). Previously, Kiel’s Adrian Kapralik had shot the ball past keeper Jan Reichert and the goal (53′). Coach Marcel Rapp’s guests were rewarded with a final offensive when Johansson headed in a cross from Alexander Bernhardsson unchallenged.
1. FC Magdeburg with a goalless draw at SV Darmstadt 98
After the change of coach, 1. FC Magdeburg managed to win its first point in over two months and prevented SV Darmstadt 98 from jumping into the promotion ranks. The Hessians couldn’t get past a 0-0 draw in front of their own crowd and repeatedly failed because of the solid guest goalkeeper Dominik Reimann.
Under the Magdeburg coaching duo Petrik Sander and Pascal Ibold, who replaced the sacked Markus Fiedler on an interim basis, the guests stopped the negative trend of the past weeks and months. Although Magdeburg offered relatively little in terms of play and forward play, there was a clear improvement compared to the 6-0 defeat in the test against Eintracht Braunschweig a week ago.
Reimann defused chances from Luca Marseiler (16th minute/51st) and Marco Richter (27th), among others. In the final phase, the hosts also found themselves outnumbered when full-back Sergio Lopez (82′) was sent off with a yellow-red card.
Darmstadt’s coach Florian Kohfeldt seemed partly angry after the change. He was shown a yellow card after complaining animatedly to the referee. But the second draw in a row was not enough for the Lilies, who had been unbeaten since the end of August. In the next ten days, Darmstadt will first play in the 2nd league and then in the cup against promotion contenders FC Schalke 04