The “Red Devils” made a good start early on when they returned to the second division – due to a serious mistake. But then it gets exciting again.
“Oldie” Mike Wunderlich (11th) and last-minute hero Kevin Kraus (90th + 2) scored in front of 40,579 spectators in the opening game of the league for the four-time champions, who sniffed second division air again after 1522 days. The highly traded Lower Saxony disappointed on the Betzenberg, especially offensively and only came to an interim equalizer through Havard Nielsen (80th).
Wonderful makes history
“We want to destroy a little quality with mentality and take our fans with us,” said FCK trainer Dirk Schuster on Sky before the kick-off, before the curve the saying “Lautre is widder do” could be read. Accordingly motivated, the Lauterer appeared and offered a great fight, every tackle was rewarded with applause.
The passion was quickly rewarded: Terrence Boyd intercepted a completely unsuccessful back pass from Hannover defense chief Julian Börner and served veteran Wunderlich, who scored his first second division goal in twelve years with the pieke. At the age of 36 years and 112 days, Wunderlich replaced Wolfgang Funkel as FCK’s oldest league goalscorer after 28 years.