A 0: 2 turns into a 2: 2 draw: in the third division, the football professionals of SpVgg Unterhaching stop their downward trend.
Also thanks to personnel changes.
Unterhaching
- The descent has stopped, but the liberation blow did not materialize.
The SpVgg Unterhaching parted from Viktoria Köln 2-2 and got at least one point after four defeats in a row.
Above all, it was doubly valuable for the morale of the Hachingen team: They caught up with the Cologne team from a 2-0 deficit and were superior in the second half and even closer to victory than the guests.
Coach Arie van Lent was also able to record some personnel changes.
While Viktoria started the game much better and deservedly took a 2-0 lead, the hosts had the upper hand in the second round at the latest.
"If you come back after a 2-0 draw and play very well football for one half, the result on a day like this is perfectly fine," said the SpVgg head coach.
"We even had a chance to make it 3-2, but that would have been a bit too much."
His Cologne colleague Pavel Dotchev was also satisfied after the final whistle, despite the loss of the lead: “We started well and rewarded ourselves with the two goals, that was not undeserved.
In the second half it was an open game, so it can go both ways.
With a bit of luck we would have won, but we can also lose in the end, so I'm happy with the point. "
But it is also a fact that SpVgg got stuck in a relegation zone with their fifth winless game in a row.
And was lucky that the competition also dropped points.
Both Duisburg (0: 4 against Verl) and Magdeburg (0: 1 in Ingolstadt) failed to overtake the Hachinger team.
“With a look at the table, the point was perhaps too little,” says van Lent's assessment, “but when you've lost four times, it's just good to be able to take a deep breath.
We stopped the series of losses and caught up with a deficit, that's good for morale. "
With Patrick Hasenhüttl and Dominik Stroh-Engel, the Hachinger coach sent a new storm duo onto the pitch this time.
Both were sitting on the bench a week ago.
"Both caused a stir," said van Lent, who will probably keep this model in the next few games, "that is certainly a thought for several games." So the 2: 1 in the 27th minute was a co- Production of the attacker.
Hasenhüttl poked Hasenhüttl into the goal.
The cross before had come from Markus Schwabl, who let this scorer point follow another.
Even before the 2: 2 came the cross from Haching's captain, which finally pushed Niclas Anspach over the line.
With Luca Marseiler (not in the squad at all), Alexander Fuchs and Moritz Heinrich, another three previous regulars remained outside.
A successful move by Van Lent, because the representatives Niclas Stierlin and Jannik Bandowski on the wing showed much more commitment than their colleagues recently.
When the match turned into an exciting last half hour with the equalizer in the 59th minute, there was more in it for SpVgg, Anspach (62nd) and Max Dombrowka (75th) had two good opportunities.
However, before the break, the Hachinger team only narrowly escaped a higher deficit.
In addition to the double strike by Holthaus, whose shot Paul Grauschopf deflected into his own goal, and Wunderlich with a directly converted free kick, Cologne had another good chance (23).
“We weren't there for the first half hour,” admitted van Lent.