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Lautern's Jean Zimmer, Dresden's Chris Löwe: It's still completely open who will play in league two next season
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After the first leg in the relegation, it is completely open whether 1. FC Kaiserslautern or Dynamo Dresden will play in the 2nd Bundesliga next season.
The clubs drew 0-0 in an atmospheric but rarely convincing game in terms of football.
The Lauterer want to move up after third place in the 3rd division, for Dynamo it is a year after the promotion to the second division to keep the class.
The constellation before the first leg at Betzenberg was a special one: not only the second division 16.
Dynamo, without a competitive win since mid-December, was in a precarious sporting situation.
The Lauterers also started the game out of a crisis.
Under successful coach Marco Antwerpen, who had shaped 1. FCK from relegation to promotion candidates in one year, the last three league games were lost.
In a controversial decision, Kaiserslautern parted ways with Antwerp at short notice, and interim coach Dirk Schuster was supposed to prepare the team for the duels against Dresden.
That seemed to work well at first: in the packed Fritz-Walter-Stadion, the Bundesliga founding member was initially the more offensive and better team, Terrence Boyd and Daniel Hanslik just missed a cross from Marlon Ritter (13').
Head injury at Dresden's Will
Above all, however, the fight for second division membership was characterized by tough duels.
After a collision with Hanslik, Dresden's Paul Will tried to continue the game for a few more minutes, but was unable to continue due to a head injury (21').
As Dynamo announced afterwards, Will is said to have complained of dizziness.
Lautern continued to have more pace in the game, but Boyd missed the goal after a cross from the conspicuous Ritter (27').
Kenny Prince Redondo was also allowed to complete a Ritter preliminary work, but his attempt from 14 meters was blocked (29th).
Afterwards, Dresden got better without ever being overwhelmingly superior.
A treacherous header from Christoph Daferner brought the guests closest to scoring (57').
"I don't think it was a treat for any neutral spectator," said Dresden's Chris Löwe after the game.
"A lot of high balls, a lot of header duels, a lot of second balls." On Tuesday (8.30 p.m., TV: Sat1) both teams in Dresden have the opportunity to do better.
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