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Stuttgart can look forward to their first home win of the season
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VfB Stuttgart celebrated their first home win of this Bundesliga season.
VfB won 2-0 (0-0) against FSV Mainz 05.
Sasa Kalajdzić (55th minute of the game) and Silas Wamangituka scored for the hosts (72nd).
Mainz pressed after the 3: 2 against RB Leipzig, the first three after nine winless games, early on, Stuttgart initially looked unsettled after two defeats in a row.
However, the guests could not create any scoring opportunities from the many VfB bad passes in the build-up of the game.
As a result, only the Stuttgart playwear was nice to look at for long stretches.
The team wore a rainbow-colored chest ring on their jerseys - as a sign of a diverse togetherness.
Before the start of the game, VfB explained an action as part of the “Remembrance Day in German Football”, which particularly focuses on those people who were stigmatized and brutally persecuted as “deviant and homosexuals” in the Third Reich because of their sexual and gender identity.
After just seven minutes, Mainz had called for penalties twice.
But Konstantinos Mavropanos did not go too hard against Danny Latza in the penalty area, nor was there a criminal handball by Marc Oliver Kempf after a shot by Dominik Kohr.
A Mainz player provided the only good chance of scoring in the first round - but for the opponent.
After a cross from the left, Stefan Bell almost passed goalkeeper Robin Zentner (25th) while trying to clear it.
In addition, the guests in particular acted hard in many duels, three yellow cards in half time were the result.
After the break, first the same picture.
Stuttgart found no gaps offensively, Mainz held against it physically.
Until Kalajdzić prevailed after a precisely timed cross from Borna Sosa against Moussa Niakhaté and headed 1-0.
Less than six minutes later, Mainz had their best chance to score.
Karim Onisowo hit the crossbar after a free kick with a header.
It was supposed to be the only good opportunity to score for the guests, who now had to take more risks.
After winning the ball in his own penalty area, Wamangituka sprinted all over the place and in the end still had the strength and the overview to make room with a change of direction and shoot in to decide.
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