52.
4:40 p.m
Tooor for 1. FC Union Berlin, 1:1 by Andrej Ilić
50.
16:39
On the left, Derrick Köhn dribbles towards the edge of the penalty area and can let Rasmussen out with a maneuver. Dzwigala is the final stop – but at least for the price of a free kick.
49.
16:39
Derrick Köhn takes his time with a throw-in, but brings it to the left into the box across the field. He puts a candle in the middle to the penalty spot, where Mets humorlessly knocks the ball away.
46.
16:37
Neither Baumgart nor Blessin saw any reason to make personnel changes. Who will come out of the locker room better in the next 45 minutes?
46.
4:35 p.m
Let’s move on!
46.
16:34
Kick-off of the 2nd half
45.
16:21
Half-time conclusion:
After an intense first half, FC St. Pauli leads 1-0 at 1. FC Union Berlin. The Berliners started energetically and restricted the Kiezkickers, who were largely harmless offensively, in the final third. However, the Iron Men missed their chances, so after a long period of adjustment, Pauli took the lead with a dream goal from Pereira Lage. In addition, Nikola Vasilj is still a safe bet today and has already prevented many an impact. It remains to be seen how the teams will come out of the locker room.
45.
16:17
End of 1st half
45.
16:17
Köhn tries it directly 20 meters in front of the box, but circles the ball over the right crossbar.
45.
16:17
Kaars rushes a little too impetuously against Janik Haberer in front of the FC St. Pauli penalty area, so that the referee decides on a free kick for the home team!
45.
16:17
Addition time: 1 minute will be added.
45.
16:16
From the right, Köhn brings a corner sharply towards the long five-square area, so that Vasilj raises his fists and clears the ball. Leite has the chance for a follow-up shot but it is blocked early.
42.
4:15 p.m
We are approaching the break and Union is showing that they want to go into the locker room with anything other than a half-time deficit. Is there another lucky punch before the whistle?
40.
16:12
Double save Vasilj! After Burke is through in the penalty area as a result of a Köhn through ball, the visitors’ goalkeeper has to shorten the angle in order to fend off the ex-Bremen player’s shot from the outside of the foot with his leg. Then the ball lands at Jeong, whose follow-up shot he also clears with his foot forward.
38.
4:10 p.m
Schäfer takes a cross from his own half with his chest, turns cleverly around Martijn Kaars and wants to pass a through ball to Oliver Burke. But this is then successfully prevented by Pyrka.
36.
16:08
On the right wing, Burke unleashes the turbo and sends a high cross into the box. There, Jeong uses too much arm against Pyrka for Tobias Welz’s liking and it continues with a free kick for the guests!
34.
16:07
Karol Mets is beside herself. What happened? After a return, Rönnow from the Union penalty area wants to play the ball forward, but doesn’t hit the ball correctly, so the ball almost ends up at Sinani. But then a whistle sounds because Rönnow hit the referee in the leg with his unsuccessful pass and the ball changed direction significantly, meaning the chance was wasted. The guests’ defender is understandably angry, but rules are rules.
32.
16:04
So Köhn tries it from the other side and brings the standard to the far post. There, Andrej Ilić climbs the highest in the hustle and bustle and puts the ball on goal from close range, but Vasilj doesn’t let himself be disturbed and grabs it safely.
31.
16:03
From the left corner flag, Janik Haberer brings a corner to the second post after a running duel against Ilic won by the Mets. Both Andrej Ilic and Oliver Burke jump under the ball. But there is still a corner because Dźwigała was still on the part.
29.
16:01
The home team’s reaction: Crossfield is served from the left half of the field with a high diagonal ball, receives the ball with the chest and deflects the subsequent right-footed shot over the box.
26.
4:00 p.m
That wasn’t even apparent. How does Steffen Baumgart’s team react?
25.
15:54
Tooor for FC St. Pauli, 0-1 by Mathias Pereira Lage
What a hammer! 35 meters from the goal, Sinani takes a free kick that he had previously taken against Khedira to the right into the box. There Irvine shoots at Doekhi, who is in the trajectory, from the edge of the penalty area and Pereira Lage grabs the rebound, hits it with a volley from 25 meters without hesitation and does the thing with full power past the powerless Rönnow and into the net.
22.
15:54
That was clever thinking! Daniel Sinani receives the short corner dribbled directly from Irvine, which the Iron Men did not expect at all. He passes to the penalty spot, where Karol Mets comes running exactly on the spot, takes it directly with his left and then misses it because the game device in the five-yard curves again and goes just past the right.
21.
15:52
Maybe something can be done with a standard? Rasmussen wins the first corner for the guests in a running duel with Khedira on the left wing!
17.
15:51
After a Leite cross in front of the penalty spot, Kaars is the winner in the header duel against Janik Haberer, who wouldn’t have been in such a bad position here.
16.
3:50 p.m
Now it’s been a little more than a quarter of an hour and that gives us the opportunity to draw our first conclusion: Union starts strong and tactically well thought out, can create a few opportunities through possession football and crosses, but is still having difficulty anticipating the gaps in the Hamburg backline. St. Pauli is stable at the back, but is not yet taking off offensively.
13.
3:46 p.m
Diogo Leite wants to head a high ball from the edge of the penalty area back to his own keeper – but the return falls a little short and then Pereira Lage is faster than the returning Leite, but slower than Rönnow, who comes out in time and plucks the ball out of the air.
11.
3:44 p.m
Haberer sees that there is a lot of space in the last third for Hamburg and directs a throw-in in front of the halfway line with a lob across the entire midfield – but Jeong started there a little too early and is correctly seen as offside by the linesman.
10.
3:42 p.m
Rasmussen confidently clears a Khedira throw-in that was supposed to come to Oliver Burke on the penalty line with a header.
9.
3:40 p.m
Overall, both teams are starting relatively cautiously, but Union has already appeared close to the sixteenth one or two times. Reacting seems to be the motto at FC St. Pauli.
6.
3:39 p.m
Woo-yeong Jeong extends a cross from the left with his head for Andrej Ilić, who is decisively disrupted by Adam Dźwigała when receiving the ball.
5.
3:38 p.m
This chance didn’t come out of nowhere, because the Berliners gradually increased their intensity in the first few minutes and restricted the hesitant Paulians in their own final third.
4.
3:37 p.m
Almost 1-0 for Union! After a throw-in, Ilic cleverly places himself in front of three of the brown and white players, who are wearing black today, and allows Doekhi to simply hold on from the right five-point corner. But Vasilj raises his fists at the right moment and uses his reflexes to prevent the early deficit!
2.
3:35 p.m
The referee of the game is Tobias Welz from Wiesbaden. He is supported by Martin Thomsen and Thorben Siewer on the sidelines as well as Florian Lechner as fourth official. In the Cologne cellar, Sören Storks has an eye for the very tricky situations.
1.
3:33 p.m
In any case, the atmosphere at the sold-out Alte Försterei is great. The over 2,000 FC St. Pauli fans who have found their way to the capital also contribute to this.
1.
3:31 p.m
The ball is rolling!
1.
3:30 p.m
Game start
15:23
Enough of the preliminary banter, it’s about to start in the stadium at the Alte Försterei! The teams have warmed up on the pitch and are currently receiving the final instructions from their coaches. We’ll get back to you soon with the kick-off!
15:12
Steffen Baumgart didn’t allow himself to be tempted to look into the crystal ball at the press conference. That’s why we’re taking a look at the past before the game, namely the first leg: The Iron Men won 1-0 in Hamburg with a goal from Rani Khedira shortly before the break. Most recently, the league’s pleasure house won 3-0 in front of its own fans on matchday 19 of the previous season. Morgan Guilavogui scored two goals. Otherwise, the balance tends to speak in favor of the East Berliners: Union won a whopping 14 of 29 competitive duels – the guests had nine successes.
14:57
Alexander Blessin has to compensate for a number of absences due to injury – including Eric Smith, Tomoya Ando and Lars Ritzka, who were there last matchday and are now being replaced. Adam Dźwigała, Martijn Kaars and Karol Mets can play from the start. Before today’s game, the brown-white coach gave the direction: “There will be many situations in which second balls will be involved. We have to be extremely vigilant. They concentrate extremely on their standards and throw-ins. They will try to create such situations again and again […] Regardless of whether they win or lose, the boys are willing to go through fire. The performances were accordingly, we now have to pair that with the results. Then I am also sure that we will achieve our goal.” Blessin is obviously confident ahead of the upcoming finals against, among others, direct competitors from Cologne and Wolfsburg.
14:52
Let’s get to the lineups and start with the hosts! There, coach Steffen Baumgart reacts to five points after the defeat against Bayern. Diogo Leite is celebrating his comeback after recovering from a thigh injury. Oliver Burke, Andrej Ilić, Woo-yeong Jeong and András Schäfer also return to the starting lineup and push veterans Christopher Trimmel, Tim Skarke, Aljoscha Kemlein and Livan Burcu onto the bench. Tactically, it should be a 3-4-2-1 with Burke and Jeong behind Ilic at the front. “To achieve our goal, you have to take the next step. And the next step is Pauli. I don’t have to think about Heidenheim or Wolfsburg,” said the Eisernen head coach at the press conference before his 50th game as Union coach. “It’s about staying in the league for both teams. For us it’s just as important as Pauli – regardless of what the table situation is,” he continued. Can 1. FC Union take a giant step towards securing their place in the league today?
2:43 p.m
The fans shouldn’t expect a lot of goals today, because Union and FC St. Pauli are two teams that aren’t particularly strong on offense. The Boys in Brown have the most harmless attack in the league with 24 goals, but on the other hand, Union only scored eight goals in the second half of the season.
14:27
The starting situation: The Iron Men, who suffered a 4-0 defeat at industry leader Bayern Munich before the international break, are in the middle of the table with 31 points, seven points ahead of St. Pauli, despite only two wins in the last ten games. The neighborhood club is two points behind 1. FC Köln in the relegation zone and could not only increase its lead over the direct relegation places with a win, but also climb to 15th place if the billy goats lose in the second Sunday game in Frankfurt. Most recently, Hamburg gave up a 1-0 lead against Freiburg and missed the chance to jump over the line and leave the Effzeh behind them.
13:42
Hello! At the start of the Bundesliga Sunday on the 28th matchday of the current season, the Köpenick cult club Union Berlin welcomes the Kiez-Kickers from FC St. Pauli in the Alte Försterei. Our live ticker will provide you with all the necessary and useful information before the ball rolls at 3:30 p.m.!
