Late winner
St. Pauli beats Gladbach and is in the cup quarter-finals
12/02/2025 – 7:58 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
Celebrations at crisis-hit FC St. Pauli: The Kiezkickers are celebrating a great success in the midst of the league misery. In the cup, Hamburg beat a Bundesliga competitor.
The cup dream FC St Pauli lives on: On Tuesday evening, the Kiezkicker beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 (1-0) and moved into the quarter-finals of the most important German cup competition. Martijn Kaars (43rd) and Louis Oppie (83rd) scored for St. Pauli. Haris Tabakovic had equalized in the meantime (56th).
The game started uneventfully. The teams largely neutralized each other, and great scoring chances remained scarce. Only the Gladbach team took part in the offensive through Kevin Stöger. However, neither a long-range shot (11th) nor a blocked shot by the midfielder (24th) found the desired target.
When St. Pauli freed itself from Gladbach’s grip, the Kiezkickers struck with their first really dangerous action. Kaars completed an assist from Joel Chima Fujita to take the lead at the break (43′).
After the break, the home team got off to a better start. Tabakovic headed a cross from Franck Honorat to equalize (54′). St. Pauli tried to respond quickly, but Oppie’s promising attempt failed at the side netting (63′). Captain Jackson Irvine also had no luck with a direct pass shortly afterwards (74′). And so it was finally Oppie who, seven minutes before the end, made room with a hook in Gladbach’s box and scored the celebrated winning goal (83′).
For St. Pauli, after nine league defeats in a row at 1. FC Köln on Saturday afternoon (from 3:30 p.m.), it’s about getting back on the road to success in the league. Gladbach face Mainz 05 on Friday evening (from 8:30 p.m.). The draw for the cup quarter-finals will take place on Sunday from 7.15 p.m. in the German Football Museum in Dortmund.