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Bochum's Milos Pantovic brought VfL Bochum into the lead and later celebrated promotion
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VfL Bochum and Greuther Fürth have been promoted to the Bundesliga.
On the last matchday of the second division, Bochum achieved a 3: 1 (1: 0) against Sandhausen, Fürth won 3: 2 (0: 1) against Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Holstein Kiel missed direct promotion despite the good starting position as second in the table before the match day.
After the 2: 3 (1: 0) against Darmstadt 98, Kiel must be relegated to 1. FC Köln.
The start of the Bochum celebrations had to wait until the 29th minute;
Bochum's goalkeeper Patrick Drewes had held up well twice, once against Erik Zenga and Kevin Behrens (19th minute), then against Daniel Keita-Ruel (21st) from close range.
Against the relegation-threatened sand houses, it took a strong pass from Robert Zulj into the opposing half to Simon Zoller, who delayed and served Milos Pantovic who had also run at the second post (29th).
The fact that the interim lead did not turn out to be higher was again due to the guests' goalkeeper;
Stefanos Kapino parried strongly against Zoller (42.).
And the fact that Bochum lost the lead was due to Behrens: The striker headed a long ball past Drewes and shot the ball from an acute angle, almost from the goal line, into the goal (60th).
A result that the Bochumers could have lived with in the end, because the promotion competition from Kiel also failed.
They celebrated the hits by Anthony Losilla and Zulj (88th) in Bochum like the decisive ones (78th).
It's the return after relegation in 2010.
With Bochum, Fürth is high in league one.
At the break, the Fürth team looked like the safe relegation participant, Düsseldorf's Kristoffer Peterson had pulled in from the left wing and completed the far corner (26th).
In addition, Fürth's Anton Stach flew off the field, who hit Shinta Appelkamp with an open sole on the lower leg.
The Fürth protests were large, although Stach had previously seen yellow and otherwise would have seen yellow-red.
Due to the red card, Stach threatened to fail for the entire relegation.
But the Fürth people knew how to prevent them in the second half. With the help of Düsseldorf's Christoph Klarer, who got the ball on his arm. Branimir Hrgota pushed the penalty to equalize (52.). And although Düsseldorf took the lead again through Appelkamp, Fürth struck back outnumbered. Julian Green provided the equalizer, which would have been enough for direct promotion in the event of a Kiel defeat (69th). Dickson Abiama put the lid on (83rd).
At Holstein Kiel, however, there were long faces on Saturday afternoon. The North Germans wanted to be the first club from Schleswig-Holstein to be promoted to the Bundesliga on the last match day after they had reported back brilliantly after a double quarantine. In keeping with the occasion, the Kielers acted nervously, but still took the lead: goal scorer Janni Serra headed a free kick from Alexander Mühling into the goal (18th). It should be one of the few things that went smoothly against ex-coach Markus Anfang.
Because at the beginning, with which Kiel failed in the Bundesliga relegation at VfL Wolfsburg in 2018, Serdar Dursun has the top scorer in its own ranks.
First he failed with a tackle from close range (30th), but then he headed a free kick into the far corner (51st) and turned the game seven minutes later by spitting a cross through the legs of keeper Thomas Dähne.
Immanuel Höhn's goal to the final score sealed the Kiel crash in third place, although Fin Bartels still made the connection.
Holstein will meet Cologne on May 26th and 29th.
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