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David Otto celebrates his goal
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Jahn Regensburg's soaring in the 2nd Bundesliga continues.
Against Bundesliga relegated Schalke 04, the surprise team, which had already won their first three games of the season, prevailed 4-1 (1-0) in front of their home crowd.
Werder Bremen scored 0-0 with a rump squad at the still unbeaten Karlsruher SC and SC Paderborn prevailed 3-1 (1-1) after an early red card against St. Pauli.
Regensburg remains at the top of the table without losing points and after four match days already has eight points ahead of Schalke, whose form seems to persist in the second division. Right winger Jan-Niklas Beste scored the opening goal - with the help of the Schalke back team: Florian Flick lost the ball in his own penalty area to David Otto from Regensburg. He put down on Beste, whose flick from 20 meters was enough to overcome Ralf Fährmann in the Schalke goal (8th minute).
As a result, Schalke found it difficult to get chances against the well-organized home side. Otto had the 2-0 on the foot, but failed on this time strongly reacting ferryman (27th), whereas the Royal Blues after an elbow use Sarpreet Singh demanded a penalty against Reinhold Ranftl, but did not get (38th). Steve Breitkreutz (55th) and Otto, this time served with a corner from Beste (73rd), decided the game after the break. Simon Terodde only managed the consolation goal (81st) before Singh made the Schalke debacle perfect (86th).
Werder Bremen earned a point in Karlsruhe. The relegated Bundesliga player, who had given up regular players like Joshua Sargent, Maximilian Eggestein and Yuya Osako in recent weeks without signing a replacement, even had better chances, but was able to outnumber Karlsruhe's Marvin for more than half an hour after yellow-red Wanitzek (57th) do not use it.
In the first half, Karlsruhe were also able to thank referee Bastian Dankert, who decided against a penalty for Bremen when Philipp Heise pushed Nicolai Rapp (29th) and Lucas Cueto (39th) played a handball. Towards the end of the game, it was noted that Werder could no longer bring any reinforcements from the bench, on which only 19 to 21-year-old young players were sitting. The KSC kept up even when they were outnumbered, but when he had the best chance Michael Zetterer parried strongly against Marco Thiede (71st) in the Bremen goal.
In a duel between two previously unbeaten teams, Paderborn turned a backlog. Despite an early setback, when Philipp Ziereis was the last man to see the red card for an outing against Sven Michel (6th), St. Pauli had the better cards for a long time: First St. Pauli keeper Nikola Vasilj parried Dennis's penalty Srbeny (8th), then Guido Burgstaller even gave the guests the lead after a counterattack with a low shot (28th).
Shortly before the break, Adam Dźwigała headed the ball into his own goal (44th) and equalized the game.
After the Paderborn could rely on the reflexes of goalkeeper Jannik Huth when Daniel-Kofi Kyereh had a chance (47th), Kai Pröger scored the lead for Ostwestfalen one minute when he was substituted on (65th).
Michel crowned his good performance in stoppage time with the goal to the final score (90 + 2).
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