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Waldhof Mannheim dares to dance with Frankfurter Eintracht
Photo: Frey-Pressebild / Deines / imago images / Thomas Frey
Newcomer Greuther Fürth started on Saturday with his departure in Babelsberg, on Sunday the next first division team stumbled with Eintracht Frankfurt.
Hertha BSC saves itself in the last second in the next round.
Third division team beats Bundesliga team: Waldhof Mannheim surprisingly prevailed against
Eintracht Frankfurt
in the first round of the cup
.
It got really loud in the stadium after the break: Marcel Seegert (48th) and Joseph Boyamba (52nd) shocked Eintracht with a double blow.
When Frankfurt's Martin Hinteregger had to leave the field with yellow-red (62nd), Mannheim's cup surprise became more and more concrete.
Hertha BSC
showed an extremely weak game at SV Meppen over 90 minutes.
It was only in the final minute that Davie Selke scored the 1-0 winning goal for Pal Dardai's team.
The
FC Schalke 04
came against the fifth division of Villingen briefly embarrassed, has a 4: nevertheless achieved -Sieg the next Cup round: 1 (1: 1). Marius Bülter put Schalke in the lead after a combination with Dominick Drexler (17th). The second division was the superior team, but less than fifteen minutes later Villingens Nedzad Plavci met with the first degree to equalize (31st). At the beginning of the second half, however, Schalke made the preliminary decision: Rodrigo Zalazar (49th) and again Bülter (51st) scored within two minutes to 3-1, Yaroslav Mikhailov scored the fourth goal (79th).
Max Kruse, who returned to the Olympics, led
Union Berlin
to the next round in a 1-0 win against third division club Türkgücü Munich.
When it came to the opening goal, Union benefited from a mistake in Munich's build-up game.
Taiwo Awoniyi conquered the ball in the pressing and placed in front of the goal across to Kruse, who pushed in to make it 1-0 (23rd).
The striker was most recently in action for the DFB at the Olympics.
Kruse's goal was enough for Union to progress, Munich could not equalize.
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