FC Augsburg – Mainz 05 1: 2 (1: 1), Goals: 0: 1 Karim Onisiwo (31st), 1: 1 Ermedin Demirovic (35th), 1: 2 Jae-Sung Lee (90 + 3rd) – Special events: Aaron misses a penalty (62nd)
Mainz vs Augsburg, a game for all those football lovers who know how to find beauty even in the darkest corners. That’s a popular prejudice. Two teams, organized in a defensive corset, actually initially lurked for mistakes made by their opponents. And they made an effort not to overwhelm the viewers visually and cognitively with the spectacle. Nothing happened for 30 minutes. Really nothing. But then a goal surprisingly drove into this lifeless game, additionally provided with the suspicion of handball, which only the assistants in the Cologne basement could clear up: Karim Onisiwo from Mainz probably inadvertently forwarded a tee shot from Robin Zentner with his shoulder and not with his hand , and shot in after a one-two with Angelo Fulgini himself. Well, thought the people of Augsburg, no more non-aggression pacts? Then let’s play soccer! And so Ermedin Demirovic hammered an assist from Felix Uduokhai with his heel into the corner, which made you wonder when exactly he had learned this magic.
Where there is a lot of beauty, there is also a bit of clumsiness, thought Aaron from Mainz. After the restart, he gently lifted a justified penalty kick into Gikiewicz’s arms. The Augsburgers owed it to their goalkeeper that he initially held onto the point and cleared twice against Onisiwo. In the case of a corner kick, after which Mainzer Lee was allowed to screw himself up unmarked at the near post for the winning goal, he was understandably powerless.