2nd league
Hamburg ends descent with spectacle – St. Pauli victory
Hamburg’s players celebrate the goal to make it 2-0. photo
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With a peat festival, HSV presents in the promotion race and puts the competitors under pressure. Braunschweig gets some air in the relegation battle.
Hamburger SV has ended its sporting crisis in the promotion race of the 2nd Bundesliga. With the 6:1 (2:0) thrashing in the northern duel against Hannover 96, HSV achieved a very important victory.
After three games without a win, the Hanseatic League (53 points) have moved past 1. FC Heidenheim (51) to second place in the table thanks to St. Pauli Schützenhilfe and are again within striking distance of SV Darmstadt 98 (55). . The Hessians will meet fifth-placed SC Paderborn on Sunday (1.30 p.m. / Sky).
Laszlo Benes (41st minute, 61st penalty kick), Sonny Kittel (34th), Robert Glatzel (65th), Ransford Königsdörffer (76th) and Ludovit Reis (87th) scored for HSV at the Schützenfest. Heidenheim narrowly but deservedly lost 1-0 (0-1) after a goal by Marcel Hartel (41st minute) against 1. FC St. Pauli, who had been victorious for weeks, on Saturday evening.
St. Pauli is now fourth in the standings with 47 points in the promotion race. The Hamburgers improved their super series to ten wins in a row. In doing so, they also improved coach Fabian Hürzeler’s second division start record. In addition, the home run of the Heidenheimers, who had previously been unbeaten in 14 games across the season in the Voith Arena, ended.
Table cellar remains exciting
It also remains exciting in the relegation battle, in which Eintracht Braunschweig presented on Saturday. The previous table-15. won 1-0 (0-0) against co-promoted 1. FC Kaiserslautern and has now been unbeaten for three games. Anthony Ujah scored the decisive goal in the 76th minute.
However, the game was overshadowed by an obviously serious injury to Immanuel Pherai. The Braunschweig playmaker was carried off in the 55th minute after defender Kevin Kraus hit him in the head with his shin. According to his club, a later examination in the hospital revealed a broken nose and a concussion in the 21-year-old.
On Saturday, three days after losing to VfB Stuttgart in the DFB Cup, 1. FC Nürnberg prevented another bankruptcy against Karlsruher SC very late on: Kwadwo Duah scored after a long test by VAR in injury time (90+ 4) with a penalty to make it 1:1 (0:0). A few minutes earlier, Duah’s goal had been disallowed for being offside. Mikkel Kaufmann (26th) scored the lead for Karlsruhe.