After two serious mistakes by goalkeeper Patrick Drewes, second division soccer team Karlsruher SC missed out on a possible home win against SV Wehen Wiesbaden.
The KSC took the lead twice on Friday in a 2-2 (1-0) thanks to Budu Sivsiwadze (35th minute) and Igor Matanovic (53rd) and extended their series to eight games without defeat in front of 20,407 spectators.
But Drewes allowed one of the opponent’s shots to rebound before both goals were conceded by Ivan Prtajin (48th) and Nick Bätzner (74th), thereby helping the Hessians to a point. While the hosts initially moved up to seventh place at the start of the 20th matchday, Wehen Wiesbaden remained eleventh in the table.
The KSC, where captain Jerôme Gondorf returned to the starting line-up after knee problems, started very cautiously and made many inaccuracies throughout the game. The guests, coached by former Karlsruher Markus Kausczinski, initially controlled the game, but were all too often harmless in attack, apart from a hit on the crossbar by Prtajin (45th + 3).
After the break, an open duel developed in which Karlsruhe was actually the better of two teams that were at best average in terms of play, but missed the win due to Drewes’ mistakes.