Fürth (AP) – After a festival of scoring opportunities, SpVgg Greuther Fürth gave away two points in the home game against SC Paderborn in the promotion of the 2nd Bundesliga.
The Franks had to be content with a 1: 1 (1: 1) and missed the jump to a promotion place at the beginning of the 16th matchday. In the second game, the Würzburger Kickers missed a home win in the duel of the relegation candidates despite being clearly outnumbered after two dismissals for Eintracht Braunschweig. The bottom of the table should be satisfied with a 0-0 win in their own stadium.
Sebastian Ernst put the hosts in the lead in Fürth (8th minute), Chris Führich equalized for the East Westphalia to a happy draw (24th). The Franks demonstrated again and again that they can play football really well, not only in the determined attack to 1-0 with a diving header from Ernst to a cross from David Raum. Captain Branimir Hrgota could have increased quickly (13th), but failed, like Anton Stach later, to Paderborn’s goalkeeper Leopold Zingerle (31st). Paul Seguin shot powerfully from a distance to the crossbar (43.).
The guests benefited in their 1-1 draw from a bad pass from Hrgota. Sven Michel served Führich, who scored his seventh goal of the season. After the break, the Fürth usury continued: Hrgota missed with the head (54th), Havard Nielsen hit the post (57th), Ernst (65th) failed to Zingerle. In the end, the substitute Svante Ingelsson even forgave the away win for Paderborn (85th).
In Würzburg, meanwhile, the excellent goalkeeping veteran Jasmin Fejzic recorded the lucky point for the third from bottom from Lower Saxony. In addition, the Würzburg team was very unlucky when Dominic Baumann (62nd minute) and Rolf Feltscher (90th) hit two posts. High intensity and many duels determined the game, which only changed when they were sent off. Dominic Wydra first saw yellow-red after repeated fouls (51.). Manuel Schwenk later followed with a straight red after a foul from behind against Baumann (66th).
With eleven against nine, the Würzburg team pushed, but they didn’t score. Fejzic had bad luck. The 34-year-old parried brilliantly against David Kopacz (56th), Patrick Sontheimer (59th) and the new Kickers center forward Marvin Pieringer (65th). In the table, the Braunschweig team kept their four-point lead over the Kickers.
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