Nuremberg makes everything clear early on
Hamburger SV clearly missed the connection to the top of the table in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the northern duel near Holstein Kiel, the promotion candidate lost 2:4 (0:1) on Saturday and suffered their third away defeat this season. Steven Skrzybski (20th) with a penalty kick, Benedikt Pichler (57th), Finn Porath (83rd) and Jonas Sterner (88th) scored for Kiel. Robert Glatzel (71st/80th) scored the goals to equalize.
With a win, HSV would have caught up with city rivals FC St. Pauli on points. Despite the defeat, coach Tim Walter’s team remains in second place in the table, at least until Sunday. The Kiel team moved up to third place for the time being, one point less than HSV.
Winning goal in added time: Braunschweig wins the basement duel
Eintracht Braunschweig won a thrilling basement duel with a goal in stoppage time. The previous bottom of the table beat the new bottom team VfL Osnabrück late, but deservedly, 3:2 (1:1). Ermin Bicakcic only scored the winning goal in front of 20,378 spectators in the eighth minute of stoppage time – and the goal was checked by the video assistant for several minutes afterwards. In the end, Daniel Scherning became the third Braunschweig coach this season to celebrate a successful debut – against his former club Osnabrück of all places.
After a yellow-red card for Michaël Cuisance (60th minute), Eintracht played in the majority for more than half an hour and still had to tremble for a long time. Goals from Johan Gómez (11th) and Anton Donkor (61st) gave the much more dangerous hosts a deserved lead twice. But VfL took advantage of their only two chances to score twice in this game with a penalty kick, thanks to Cuisance (45th + 1/foul penalty) and Erik Engelhardt (87th/hand penalty) to luckily equalize.
1. FC Nürnberg impressed in their away win at SC Paderborn
1. FC Nürnberg has returned to the road to success and has its sights set on the promotion places. On Saturday, the “club” celebrated a deserved 3-1 (3-0) win at SC Paderborn, a week after the last-minute home defeat against Schalke 04. As currently sixth in the table, FCN is only two points away from the promotion relegation place. After the red card against Jens Castrop (60th minute/foul), the guests had to make do with ten players for a long time.
Before that, Castrop had laid the foundation for victory, taking the lead in the 8th minute. Kanji Okunuki (39th) and Lukas Schmelzer (42nd) made the decision before the break. The Paderborn team, who were inferior to their opponents in almost every aspect in the first half, only managed to score the next goal late on through Adriano Grimaldi.
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