Spectacular top game: FC St. Pauli pulls away from Holstein Kiel

Afolayan crowns strong form

In a goal festival, FC St. Pauli extended its lead in the table at the start of the 23rd matchday. Against pursuers Holstein Kiel, Hamburg won the spectacular top game 4:3 and distanced themselves by six points from the second-placed Störche, who almost equalized despite being 0:3 behind at the break. They are currently ten points ahead of HSV, who only make their debut on Sunday with new coach Steffen Baumgart. Winger Oladapo Afolayan crowned his current strong form with a brace in St. Pauli’s win.

In front of 15,034 spectators, Afolayan (11th minute, 36th), Marcel Hartel (34th) and Connor Metcalfe (57th) scored for St. Pauli. Shuto Machino (53rd), Joshua Mees (65th) and Alexander Bernhardsson (82nd) ​​were successful for Kiel. Hamburg leads the table by six points after 23 match days.

Kiel started bravely, but didn’t take advantage of its chances. St. Pauli proved to be significantly more efficient. Afolayan scored after an assist from Philipp Treu. The Hamburgers were lucky with a double aluminum goal by Marvin Schulz and Tom Rothe (19th), goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj then made a very close save on the line. Hartel increased and initiated the double strike with a through pass to Afolayan, who increased the score to 3-0.

After the break, Kiel came back and benefited from a mistake by goalkeeper Vasilj, who didn’t do a good job of Machino’s shot. Metcalfe restored the three-goal gap with his goal, while Mees and Bernhardsson made the game exciting again. The equalizer was no longer achieved.

Paderborn stays in the fight for promotion: victory at SV Wehen

SC Paderborn 07 remains in the fight for the promotion places. The East Westphalia team celebrated a 2-1 (1-1) win at newly promoted SV Wehen Wiesbaden on Friday evening and reduced the gap to the relegation place to just one point before Saturday’s games. The goals for the away win for the SCP were scored by Koen Kostons (39th minute) and Filip Bilbija (82nd). Franko Kovacevic (30th) gave the SVWW a 1-0 lead in front of 6,119 spectators in the Brita Arena.

In a first half with only a few penalty area scenes, the guests had a little more of the game and had their first opportunity thanks to a free kick from Raphael Obermair, which goalkeeper Florian Stritzel directed onto the crossbar (9th). The Hessians surprisingly took the lead after half an hour through Kovacevic, who completed a counterattack after an opponent’s corner with a shot from a tight angle. Before the break, the SCP managed to equalize through Kostons, who ran freely towards Stritzel and fired into the bottom left corner from twelve meters.

At the beginning of the second half, the Paderborn team initially missed a possible second goal when Kostons hit the crossbar from eleven meters (47′) and a shot from Bilbija (51′) from close range to the right post. But Bilbija scored in the final phase and completely turned around a game that was generally of a mediocre level.

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