FC Schwaig returned from a guest appearance at TSV Brunnthal with a 2:2 (2:1) draw in their luggage and had to settle for a point due to numerous missed chances.
Brunnthal/Schwaig – Schwaig's coach Ben Held had changed the eleven in several positions compared to the previous week: With Raffi Ascher and Vincent Sommer, the two regular strikers and Hannes Hornof, an important driver in midfield, returned.
Bitter for the guests: In addition to Leon Roth, playmaker Maxi Hellinger also had to pass.
After warming up, pain in the Achilles tendon made it impossible to play.
Marco Neumann and Tobi Bartl replaced the two in the starting XI, who showed a strong performance.
Schwaig started energetically and immediately took matters into his own hands.
Just six minutes were played when Sommer had the first good chance.
After a quick combination via the stations Held and Tobi Jell, the ball came to Markus Straßer, whose flat pass reached Sommer in the penalty area.
Schwaig's number 10 flicked the ball just over the crossbar.
At the next opportunity, Sommer served Straßer, but Brunnthal's goalkeeper Maximilian Geisbauer brilliantly parried his beautiful shot.
The same happened in the 20th minute, when he turned a shot from 16 meters from Bartl around the right post after nice work from Ascher and Sommer.
In the 22nd minute, Schwaig scored the deserved lead.
Captain Jell headed a corner from Bartl from the far post into the middle, where Ascher pushed the ball over the line from three meters away.
Now the hosts had to react, and they did.
Center forward Fabian Porr made a good run on the left and ran towards the Schwaiger goal, but keeper Franz Hornof kept his nerve and blocked the shot from a tight angle.
But in the 29th minute he was powerless.
A sharp free kick from the left went past friend and foe, Tim Rebenschütz was lurking at the far post, who grabbed the ball, pulled it inside and deliberately pushed it in to make it 1-1.
The equalizer gave Brunnthal self-confidence.
The hosts were now much better in the game and played more courageously forward.
Schwaig not only survived this phase of pressure unscathed, but also took the lead again with the half-time whistle.
Bartl curled a free kick from the corner of the penalty area over the wall, Geisbauer saved it, but the ball had already crossed the line.
After the change of sides, the Held team turned up the heat and put Brunnthal under a lot of pressure.
Sommer served Ascher, but Geisbauer fished his wonderful shot out of the right corner of the cross.
Just five minutes later, Sommer took a Jell cross, spun around his opponent and went just inches wide of the goal from 12 yards out.
Center forward Ascher had the next chance, but Geisbauer also saved his shot.
In the 75th minute, the Schwaiger team already had the goal scream on their lips.
Straßer fitted in wonderfully from the right wing, where substitute Lucas Hones pushed the ball from twelve meters against the direction of the goalkeeper, but missed the goal by a few centimetres.
The hosts did better in the 78th minute: Jakob Klaß got a nice pass through the defense and hammered the ball into the net from 16 meters to make it 2-2.
Now it was an open and hard-fought game.
Both teams threw everything into the balance again, but in the end it remained 2:2 and a point for each.
It was two points too few for Coach Held's team.
