Fortuna Düsseldorf moves into the cup quarter-finals with a 5-2 win in Kaiserslautern. What sounds clear was really short in between …
9th minute: Ampomah with the leadership for the Bundesliga team. He takes the ball, turns and pulls with the left. Keeper Grill can still get it, but cannot prevent the hit.
10th minute: Lautern comes back at lightning speed! Sickinger to Thiele, who goes over to the right. It plays on cooling weather – compensation!
Bitter for Lautern: Thiele has to be replaced after a head crash with Gießelmann. For him comes Röser (30th).
But the third division cannot be put off. Gießelmann neatly goes into the corner of the penalty area against Pick, pulls him off his feet. Clear penalty. Cooling weather sets in, turns ice cold in the top left. The game turns louder (39.)!
After the break, the Fortuna grabs the lead through Hennings, who takes him volley, first (49.), then through Zimmermann, who has been playing with broken hands and rails since Christmas (65.).
The game is turned again!
And then Rouwen Hennings replaces: He takes him again volley (78th) – 4: 2. Cup hero Hennings – he scored in the first two cup games. Stöger adds to the 5: 2 (83.).
For Fortuna coach Uwe Rösler (51) it was a successful return to his old place of work: he played for Lautern in the 1998/99 season.
For Lautern, the cup is not only bitter in terms of sport, but also financially: there would have been a premium of 1.4 million euros for the quarter-finals. A total of around 2 million euros would have been thrown into the coffers of the chronically clammy club with audience revenue.
Lautern coach Boris Schommers (41) raves from the Hennings goal to 2-2: “That is simply the difference in quality. You can’t defend that. That’s why they play in the Bundesliga. “
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