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Hanover's Marcel Halstenberg (M) celebrates with Sebastian Ernst (r) and Sei Muroya about his goal to make it 2-1.
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Fan protests, interruption of the game and a winning goal scorer who has to leave the field: Hannover wins a turbulent and momentous game against Rostock.
Hannover - Hannover 96 has reported back in the promotion race of the 2nd Bundesliga.
In front of 31,500 spectators, the sixth-place team won 2-1 (1-0) against FC Hansa Rostock on Sunday and reduced their gap to the relegation place to five points.
An own goal from Kevin Schumacher gave Hannover the lead in the 4th minute.
A serious mistake by 96 goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler led to a lucky equalizer by Kai Pröger (45th + 4).
After Marcel Halstenberg made it 2-1 (78th), Zieler ironed out his mistake with two strong saves (81st/83rd).
Afterwards, the winning goalscorer Halstenberg was shown a red card for kicking (89').
Due to fan protests against the planned investor entry into the German Football League, this game was also interrupted several times.
96ers supporters threw tennis balls onto the field eight times from the 14th minute of the game.
Every time the stewards cleared the penalty area and the game briefly resumed, the next wave flew.
In the 25th minute, referee Alexander Sather sent both teams off the field for eight minutes.
In total, the first half lasted 65 instead of 45 minutes.
Lower Saxony missed numerous opportunities in the first half.
After the many interruptions and the unnecessary equalizer, Hannover's attacks lost their power.
After the break, Rostock became braver, more self-confident and hardly allowed any chances - until the score was 1:2.
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