The Lauterer fans screamed their lungs out and in the turbulent final phase loudly cheered every throw-in by FCK and every ball thrown away before the 0:2 by Philip Hercher (90+2) finally broke all dams – unfortunately, however not only in the guest block.
While 3,000 FCK fans celebrated the promotion of the four-time German champions to the second division, the Dynamo fans threw Bengal torches on the pitch and fired cannons. Banners were burned in several places in the Dresden block, the game was interrupted for minutes before referee Daniel Siebert continued the game and brought it to a regular end.
The players of 1. FC Kaiserslautern celebrate their return to the second division.
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And when a chain of folders with a taut cord at the level of the center line prevented a number of Dresden fans from storming onto the pitch, while fireworks continued to be thrown on the pitch, some dynamo officials must have suspected that it would be annoying the relegation from the second division, many more unpleasant questions should come to them. And these will not have to do with the sporting situation, but with the escalation in the stands.
The Lauterers, on the other hand, were overjoyed. “It’s a great feeling. The whole region was longing for it,” said FCK trainer Dirk Schuster on SAT.1: “We fired everything into the game and I’m very proud that we were able to give people this gift. “
In the first leg both teams watched each other – in the second leg they finally stormed
It was the hosts who, after the kick-off in the decisive relegation second leg, got going with high spirits. In the fifth minute, the 30,530 fans saw a shot from Dynamo striker Christoph Daferner, who put Lautern keeper Matheo Raab straight into play. Shortly thereafter, Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer tested him with another shot (15′). The weakest offensive of the past second division season did everything right from the start to show that they wanted to do better than in the 17 games in the second half of the season, in which the Saxons did not manage a single win.
And since Lautern also attracted attention with a header from Terence Boyd, which Königsdörffer knocked away in front of the line (11th), and Mike Wunderlich tested Dynamo keeper Kevin Broll with a sharp shot from the edge of the penalty area (19th), the pulse stayed high in both fan camps. Even at this point, after less than a quarter of the game, there were more promising goals than in the entire first leg.
His most important goal? Daniel Hanslik (middle) puts FCK in the lead in Dresden.
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Last Thursday, both sides were only concerned with avoiding goals in a less entertaining 0-0 draw. And while Lautern was waiting for a counterattack for half-time, Dynamo followed through on the promise made by their coach Guerino Capretti to play more courageously and offensively than in the first leg, in which both fan camps provided the atmospheric setting for an extremely conservative sporting event in front of a full house had.
On Tuesday evening, the atmosphere, which was no less emotional, suited what was happening on the pitch perfectly. Since shortly before the end of the first half Königsdörffer only hit the side netting from ten meters and Michael Sollbauer then fired a shot over the Lauterer goal (45th), it remained 0-0 at half-time, which was flattering from FCK’s point of view. Their new coach, Dirk Schuster, who was born in Saxony, is known to be a defensive lover, and at least in the first half Lautern did little to correct their image after the two chances at the beginning of the game.
Shortly after the FCK lead, Dynamo missed a double chance
In the second half, the game also picked up speed because Lautern became more active and promptly got a huge chance: Boyd, who had scored eight times in 13 third division games for FCK, forced Broll to do a brilliant job with a header (58.), before the guests took the lead two minutes later: Daniel Patrick Hanslik, after a nice combination via Ritter and Wunderlich, scored an untenable goal in the near corner (60th) and thus fueled the Palatinate hopes of being able to return to the second division after four years in the third division.
But first there were still a lot of Dresden attacks to survive. Immediately after the opening goal, the hosts had a double chance through Daferner and Patrick Weihrauch (66′), before a free kick followed from Batista Meier, which Raab steered over the crossbar with his fingertips (71′). The atmosphere heats up now with the Dynamo attachment groaning when Panagiotis Viachidomos missed another good chance to equalize in the 86th minute. And then Hercher destroyed all of Dresden’s hopes of staying up in the league with the second Lauterer goal. The events after the final whistle should now result in further negative headlines and financial consequences for the sporty stricken SG Dynamo from Dresden.