Mission title hat trick failed: After a total of 13 successful games in a row in Leipzig’s favorite competition, a cold October evening in the DFB Cup was fatal for RB. In the second round, Marco Rose’s team surprisingly lost 0-1 (0-1) to league rivals VfL Wolfsburg.
With his goal (14th), Vaclav Cerny secured the 2015 cup winners’ celebrated place in the round of 16. Leipzig’s Yussuf Poulsen had to leave the field 150 days after the triumph in Berlin – the second in a row – due to repeated foul play (56th).
Union’s crisis continues
The badly hit Champions League starter Union Berlin is slipping deeper and deeper into the crisis. The “Iron” failed in the second round of the DFB Cup at league rivals VfB Stuttgart, after the 0-1 (0-1) and the eleventh competitive defeat in a row, the situation is becoming increasingly critical for coach Urs Fischer.
Deniz Undav, representative of the injured top scorer Serhou Guirassy, scored for Stuttgart practically with the half-time whistle (45th). VfB, the league’s surprise team, continued its highs and is once again in the cup round of 16 (December 5th/6th).
But Fischer is “still clearly” the right coach, said Union captain Christopher Trimmel on Sky. It’s “not the coach’s fault.” You now have to “work, work, work and accept the relegation battle. The league is now the top priority.”
Homburg creates the surprise
Southwest regional league team FC Homburg has brought down the next professional club. The team, coached by former Bundesliga professional Danny Schwarz, defeated second division Greuther Fürth 2-1 (1-0) and is in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup for the first time since the 1995/96 season.
Fabian Eisele (32nd) and Phil Harres (83rd) scored for the hosts; after the heavy rain of the past few days, the pitch in the Waldstadion was surprisingly playable. Branimir Hrgota equalized with a dry shot from 20 meters (52′), who were unable to win away from home this season.