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21:11
Yellow card for Danny Latza (FC Schalke 04)
Latza enters the duel too late and steps on his opponent’s foot. That earns him a yellow card.
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21:10
Schalke again: Drexler moves to Ouwejan, who passes very sharply and flat towards the second post from the left wing. There Terodde throws himself into the cross, but again misses the conclusion by a few centimeters.
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21:09
Irvine sends Kyereh down with a smart pass. The 26-year-old is alone in the field, but still gets a corner kick that doesn’t bring anything further.
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21:07
Churlinov asserts himself on the left wing, but then serves Bülter with a flat pass a little imprecisely. Kyereh intervenes and is put down by Bülter when trying to fix the ball. The referee decides on offensive foul.
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21:06
Double chance Schalke! It just doesn’t exist! Bülter is through on the left and finds Drexler, who is completely blank at the second post, with a buttery cross. Instead of simply pushing the ball over the line a meter from goal, he puts it across for Terodde, who should just push the thing over the line, but Medić shoots. Insanity! Both players simply have to put the ball in the box from the shortest possible distance. Crazy!
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21:03
The Hamburgers don’t invest too much offensively and are primarily concerned with managing the lead. But if there are opportunities for switching moments, the brown and white don’t have to be asked twice. Leart Paqarada drives the ball forward from the left, but the high cross pass for Igor Matanović is clearly too long. The goalscorer can no longer keep the ball in play. Kick off Schalke.
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21:01
The game is flattening out a bit. The FCSP condenses the center and provides the pass stations well. S04 slows down a bit.
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20:57
The Royal Blues have digested the shock of the two-goal deficit after a few erratic minutes and continue to press the accelerator. Once again Schalke manages to constrict the Kiezkicker in their own half. However, St. Pauli defended very courageously.
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20:54
VAR decision: The goal by K. Itakura (FC Schalke 04) is disallowed, score: 0:2
There’s the connection hit to 1:2! Thomas Ouwejan puts a corner kick perfectly in the box, where Ko Itakura frees a header. The Japanese first heads himself, but then follows up well and has the presence of mind to push the ball over the line. In the midst of the Gelsenkirchen cheering chorus, however, the VAR then spoke up: Itakura beheaded his spread arm when he failed to head the ball. The goal is therefore disallowed.
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20:52
Schalke is again missing a good opportunity. Terodde puts through for Bülter, who lets Beifus straddle into space and then pulls to the near corner. However, the ball only hits the side netting. But then the flag goes up. A possible hit should at least have been checked.
20
20:51
The second hit turns out to be an impact hit. The miners are visibly shocked and seem downright consternated. The Kiezkicker have everything under control at the moment.
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20:47
Tooor for FC St. Pauli, 0:2 through Igor Matanović
That is impossible! Fraisl allowed himself a complete blackout and St. Pauli punished it with the goal to make it 2-0. The S04 keeper fits unnecessarily to Irvine, who has an eye for the starting Matanović. He stays cool while dribbling, puts the ball back from right to left and right again and then pulls it hard from 13 meters. This conclusion also lands precisely in the lower left corner.
15
20:46
Yellow card for Afeez Aremu (FC St. Pauli)
Aremu puts Churlinov in the center far from the danger zone with a not particularly tragic foul, earning him the first yellow card of the game. Strict interpretation of the impartial.
15
20:46
The Kiezkicker let themselves fall back a little and lie in wait for counterattacks, which also arise. In the switching game, Zander then wants to get through for Hartel, but his attempt at a pass is successfully blocked three times.
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20:44
Big chance Schalke! Insanity! Just like after 30 seconds, it was the otherwise hard-nosed goalgetter Simon Terodde who showed nerves. Marius Bülter extends a corner with his head to the 34-year-old, who narrowly misses with bad timing.
10
20:42
Schalke wants to answer immediately, but Churlinov’s shot is blocked first before Bülter puts the follow-up shot wide of the goal from 18 meters. Kick off St. Pauli.
9
20:39
Tooor for FC St. Pauli, 0:1 through Igor Matanović
Schalke have their foot on the gas pedal, but St. Pauli scored the goal to make it 1-0 with the first notable attack of the game. After a cross from the left, Irvine puts a heel on Matanović, who claims the ball against Latza. He takes two steps away from the goal and then skilfully shoots from the turn to the bottom right corner. Fraisl stretches, but the ball passes perfectly.
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20:37
The FCSP is under constant pressure. Bülter prevails on the left and skillfully puts the ball past Beifus. From an acute angle, he then tries to get to the near corner himself, but Smarsch is on the post and prevents the impact.
3
20:34
Again the royal blues, who want to ensure clear conditions from the start. Latza serves Bülter, who shoots flat to the bottom left corner from a half-right position. Smarsch is down in time and can bury the leather under him.
1
20:33
Big chance Schalke! After just 30 seconds, S04 has the big chance to immediately set the course for a party evening. Marcel Beifus jumps a back pass over his foot and Simon Terodde appears completely blank in front of Dennis Smarsch, but fails with the shot from ten meters in a one-on-one at the keeper of the Kiezkicker.
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20:31
Kick-off in the Veltins Arena. Schalke play in their royal blue shirts over white shorts. The guests from Hamburg wear white jerseys over brown trousers. The ball rolls in the Saturday night game.
20:07
The record speaks for the hosts, who have won eight of the previous 14 competitive games against St. Pauli (three draws, three defeats). In the first leg, however, the Kiezkicker at Millerntor prevailed 2-1. The last meeting between the two teams at Schalke goes back to the last Bundesliga season for the Brown and Whites, who lost 3-0 at the Royal Blues in 2010/11.
19:55
St. Pauli has been without a win for a total of five league games. Last weekend there was a 1-1 draw against 1. FC Nürnberg. Due to numerous absences, coach Timo Schultz has to play a personnel puzzle again tonight and change his first eleven to six positions: Irvine, Beifus, Benatelli, Hartel and Matanović take over for Lawrence, Daschner (both on the bench), Buchtmann, Dittgen and Becker (all three Sick). Smarsch also guards the goal for Vasilj (bank), who is also ill.
19:49
FC St. Pauli, on the other hand, could reduce the gap to the top of the table to two points with a three-pointer on Schalke and thus keep in the promotion race. For a total of 14 match days, the Kiezkicker even held the top position in the 2nd division, which is primarily due to the Hamburg team’s strong home record. The FCSP only won five of the 16 games in the 2nd Bundesliga away from home and thus only occupies tenth place in the away table.
19:42
Last weekend Schalke celebrated an important 2-1 away win in Sandhausen, which we now need to build on. Coach Mike Büskens makes two changes to his starting XI tonight: Thomas Ouwejan and Dominick Drexler are preferred to Rodrigo Zalazar and Kerim Çalhanoğlu (both on the bench).
19:36
FC Schalke have a match point tonight after Darmstadt’s defeat in Düsseldorf yesterday. If the Royal Blues win their home game against the Kiezkicker, promotion back to the Bundesliga would be a sure thing. Most recently, the Gelsenkirchen team scored 18 out of a possible 21 points, but had to admit defeat to SV Werder Bremen 4-1 in their last home game in the local Veltins Arena.
19:30
Good evening and welcome from the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Here, FC Schalke 04 welcomes FC St. Pauli at 8:30 p.m. today as part of the 33rd matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga.