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21:19
Official injury time (minutes): 3
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21:18
The VAR asks the referee to the touchline to review the scene. As it is shown in the replay, Cacutalua gets the ball at most on the forearm, but rather in the ribs. Accordingly, the referee withdraws both the penalty and the yellow card. No penalty!
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21:16
Penalty for Schalke! Is that bitter! After a cross from the right, Terodde heads 14 meters in front of the opponent’s goal at the unlucky Cacutalua, who already cleared the 0:1 too erratically. His arm is spread too far. The referee points straight to the point and also gives Cacutalua a yellow card.
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21:15
Aue almost comes to the goal now. However, after Owusu’s cross from the right, Zolinski doesn’t hit the ball properly. Fraisl still has to stretch, but can prevent the impact in the lower right corner.
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21:13
The hosts now have a really tough task to drill. After the FCE was punished for the direct rearing up after the first goal, there is a bit of helplessness.
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21:12
Yellow card for Rodrigo Zalazar (FC Schalke 04)
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21:10
Tooor for FC Schalke 04, 0:2 by Andreas Vindheim
Aue moves up and wants to show a reaction immediately. Instead, the Saxons immediately counterattacked, with which Schalke put the pointers to 2-0. After winning the ball in the center, a perfect diagonal ball from Terodde arrives in the path of Vindheim, who then makes it extremely strong. When he sees Männel coming out of the box, he pulls out the right adhesive and nails the leather into the right corner from 15 meters. No chance for the keeper of the Saxons.
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21:07
Goal for FC Schalke 04, 0: 1 by Simon Terodde
Aue clears erratically and Schalke takes a 1-0 lead with a half chance. Zalazar sends Vindheim, who crosses too close to the goal from the right. Cacutalua could resolutely swipe the ball away, but awkwardly put it straight into Terodde’s feet. Of course, the goalgetter did not decline the invitation. From six meters he confidently transforms in the lower left corner.
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21:07
Yellow card for Sören Gonther (Erzgebirge Aue)
Gonther man-marks Pieringer and grabs his opponent from behind. The referee shows the yellow card for this.
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21:04
Half an hour has passed and the guests continue to dominate events in the Ore Mountains. The FCE is very deep and hardly comes to relief attacks. The Royal Blues, on the other hand, have not yet found a way to increase the pressure in the opposing sixteen. Aue can easily defuse most attacks on the wings with concentrated attacks on the outer positions.
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21:00
Terodde lays in the sixteen for Pieringer, who immediately puts the one-two back into his teammate’s run. Terodde fails with the direct acceptance from seven meters but a brilliant reflex from Männel, who can clear the corner, which again brings nothing.
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20:57
Pieringer gets a corner against Gonther. A case for Ouwejan, who circled the guests’ fifth corner kick this time onto the second post. Terodde climbs up there, but also heads two meters past the goal of the violets.
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20:56
After a foul on Strauss in the center, Fandrich pulls the ball up into the guests’ penalty area. From a half-left position, Owusu only managed to head the ball under pressure and put the ball well past Fraisl’s goal to the left. Kick off S04.
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20:54
The Saxons are increasingly chasing events. Schalke clearly sets the tone in this phase of the game and constricts the FCE in their own third.
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20:51
Yellow card for Andreas Vindheim (FC Schalke 04)
After the FCE can rectify the situation just described, the violets swarm out. Vindheim goes two-footed ahead to stop this advance. His lateness against Kühn was punished with the first yellow card of the game.
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20:51
Suddenly there is a fire in the Auer penalty area. After a cross from the left, no defensive player from the violets really goes there. The FCE is very lucky that first Pieringer’s header slips over the crown from six meters and then Terodde does not go decisively enough into a one-on-one with Männel.
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20:49
Schalke have more of the game, but can convert that into little that can be counted. The better finishes belonged to the home side, while the royal blues are not really dangerous in the box.
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20:46
The first big chance of the game belongs to the violets. After a dangerous cross from the left, Hochscheidt dives under the ball, but behind him is Owusu, who has the right foot and gets the ball on the guest goal. The conclusion from five meters goes straight to Fraisl, who can block involuntarily, dives behind and safely buries the ball under himself.
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20:43
The hosts come to a conclusion from the second row. However, the leather boldly hits the stands from 21 meters. In uncomfortable rainy weather, both teams are still missing the decisive move to the goal.
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20:41
Aue could counter after a failed corner from the right. But Fraisl is up to the task and can clear a high ball from the third of the violets a good 35 meters in front of his goal, well ahead of the Saxon attackers.
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20:37
The guests work out a corner that comes sharply on the first post. There is no one at Itakura, but he heads past the goal from a difficult angle a good two meters to the left. Push off Aue.
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20:36
The FCE wants to take control from the start. Even with an advance via Jonjic on the right wing, the defensive of the guests is still very stable.
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20:32
The ball is rolling in the Ore Mountains. The hosts will compete in their usual purple and white colors. The guests from the infirmary wear white jerseys over light blue trousers. Here we go.
20:02
Incidentally, this is the Knappen’s league debut in the Erzgebirge Stadium. It is true that Schalke played here in the summer of 2018 in the inauguration game of the converted stadium against the violets. However, there has never been a competitive game in Aue for the seven-time German champions. In general, the first leg against Schalke was the only competitive game so far between the mate clubs, who parted ways 1-1 on August 13, 2021 in the Veltins Arena.
19:55
In the first competitive game of the new year, S04 did not get beyond a 1-1 draw against Holstein Kiel in their own stadium. Dimitrios Grammozis basically trusts his last starting eleven, which he only changes in two positions: Andreas Vindheim and Marvin Pieringer start today for Darko Churlinov and Reinhold Ranftl (both bench).
19:48
For FC Schalke 04, things haven’t been particularly rosy lately. The Gelsenkirchener won only two of their last eight league games and remained pale especially against the top teams. In the three games against St. Pauli (1:2), Darmstadt (2:4) and Heidenheim (0:1), the relegated team lost to all three teams, who in the run-up to the 20th matchday occupied the top three places held in the 2nd Bundesliga.
19:42
Last weekend, however, Aue was in good shape against leaders St. Pauli and in the end they were unlucky in the 2-2 draw that the Kiezkicker scored the equalizer in the third minute of added time. Coach Marc Hensel therefore leaves it at one change: Erik Majetschak starts today for Dirk Carlson (not in the squad).
19:36
The FCE was recently unable to confirm the upward trend, in the context of which ten out of twelve possible points were scored between the 11th and 14th matchday. The Saxons only got one of 15 possible points from their last five games, which means that the FCE is still on a direct relegation zone. Accordingly, the violets are under pressure in the duel of the buddies, both of whom are known to play the Steigerlied when they arrive.
Good evening and welcome from the Erzgebirge Stadium. Here, FC Erzgebirge Aue welcomes FC Schalke 04 at 8:30 p.m. as part of the 20th matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga.