Thanks to a brace from right winger Kai Pröger, Hansa Rostock scored an important three in the 2nd Bundesliga and gained some air in the bottom of the table.
After four league games without a win, the North Germans prevailed 3-0 (2-0) at Jahn Regensburg on the 14th matchday and edged up to one point to the Upper Palatinate.
In warm autumnal temperatures in front of 10,380 spectators, the guests quickly took the lead thanks to the lively Pröger (7th/26th). As a result, Regensburg made an effort. But Joshua Mees (16th), Charalambos Makridis (44th) and Andreas Albers (53rd) missed promising chances.
Then Jahn central defender Jan Elvedi unhappily deflected a cross from Rostock’s Svante Ingelsson (63rd) into his own goal – the decision.
With six new players in the starting XI, Hansa got into the game well and was rewarded thanks to the double packer Pröger, who first threw the ball into the goal net with his left foot and then with his right foot.
Regensburg, who have to be without captain Benedikt Gimber for several weeks due to injury, wanted to reply but missed the important goal before the half-time whistle. Then there was bad luck: first top scorer Albers only hit the wood before the twin brother of Gladbach’s central defender Nico Elvedi scored an own goal.