Bundesliga club FC Augsburg fought for a tight victory at the regional league team Hallescher FC and thus reaches the 2nd round of the DFB Cup.
With the result, Sandro Wagner was quite satisfied with his competitive premiere on the FC Augsburg side line. His team won the regional league team Hallescher FC with a hard-won 2-0 (0-0) and is thus in the 2nd round of the DFB Cup competition.
Steve Mounié (52nd minute) and Samuel Dessende (79th) scored the goals for the Bavarian Swabians at the fourth division club, who bravely fought back over the entire season and for a long time acted at eye level.
Hall with initial nervousness
The Bundesliga club immediately started extremely committed and developed two shooting opportunities within three minutes. But neither Mounié nor Mert Kömür aimed exactly enough.
The Halleers took a few minutes for them to take their initial nervosity. When this was successful after a good ten minutes, the hosts acted at eye level and also achieved good opportunities.
Entertaining game
At first, attacker Malek Fakhro and then dribbler Serhat Polat had the ball promising on the foot, but both failed due to the outstanding FCA goalkeeper Finn Dahmen.
An entertaining game developed, in which both teams kept showing good approaches, but they initially could not turn into goals. Augsburg was the game -determining team in the first half, but the fourth division team held uncompromisingly.
Mounié achieved leadership
The Robert Schröder team started with a lot of energy at the beginning of the second half. Defender Marius Hauptmann had a chance of shooting immediately after a corner, his ball was deflected shortly before the goal line and missed the housing.
But the Augsburgers scored the lead goal. After a cross from Marius Wolf, Kömür banged the ball on the head of Mounié, who headed 1-0 from five meters.
Halle bites the teeth
The Halleers were almost unimpressed by this deficit, continued to play and continue to play, but they always bite their teeth on the stable defensive of the FCA.
The Wagner team, on the other hand, was much more efficient. After a ball loss of the hosts in midfield, the substitute dining end came to the ball, who kept his nerve in front of Halle goalkeeper Sven Müller and pushed in 2-0.
This made the decision in this game because the bravely fighting Halle people had invested a lot of strength in their chase and could no longer grow.
Halle in Erfurt, Augsburg in Freiburg
Halle meets Erfurt on Saturday afternoon (2 p.m.). Augsburg also plays in Freiburg on Saturday afternoon (3:30 p.m.).