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Magdeburg's Julian Rieckmann (left) and Kaiserslautern's Terrence Boyd fight for the ball
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In the duel between the promoted teams, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Magdeburg drew 4:4 (2:3) in an intensely contested game.
With a win, Kaiserslautern would have jumped to third place, but now find themselves in sixth place in the table.
When Hannover 96 coach Stefan Leitl met his ex-club Greuther Fürth again, Havard Nielsen, another ex-Fürther, ensured the 2-1 (0-0) win.
It was the third win in a row for Hanover.
The duel between two losers from the previous day – Kiel lost 2:7 (2:5) to Paderborn, Sandhausen lost 1:2 (1:0) to Nuremberg – Kiel won 1:0 in a tough game thanks to a shot on Sunday (0 :0) through.
Kaiserslautern started the game perfectly with the 1:0 after a corner in the 7th minute.
Terrence Boyd had decisively deflected Marlon Ritter's shot from the edge of the penalty area.
A little later things got agitated on the other side: first there was excitement after a cross from Mo El Hankouri, which Moritz Kwarteng had headed powerfully into the Lauterer goal.
The VAR intervened because Kwarteng was supposedly offside - referee Robin Braun decided on goal, 1: 1 (13th).
Shortly thereafter, the picture was reversed: El Hankouri scored with a tackle after a pass from Moritz Kwarteng (17th) – 2:1 for Magdeburg.
The game was over in four minutes.
Kaiserslautern then collapsed and, after Boyd lost the ball on the center line, conceded the 3-1 goal from a long-range shot (22nd) by Moritz Kwarteng, who was completely unchallenged in the penalty area.
Lots of shots on goal and intense duels have made for a highly emotional promotion duel up to this point.
Lautern remained active and was rewarded again after a standard situation: After a free-kick chip from Philipp Klement, Boris Tomiak headed in to make it 2-3 (40').
In the wild final phase of the first half, Zimmer almost headed the ball into his own goal (43'), Julian Rieckmann then missed the 4:2 for Magdeburg with a shot past the left corner of the cross (45' +2).
First penalty luck, then own goal bad luck for Kaiserslautern
After the break, Lautern was wide awake and scored the 3:3 equalizer with the first chance.
Hercher tipped the ball over the line after a Ritter cross (47').
The Betzenberg madness was complete after Amara Condé Klement cleared the penalty area.
After viewing the video evidence, Kaiserslautern was awarded a penalty, which Mike Wunderlich effortlessly scored in the bottom left corner (66').
It was also part of the game that the ball that bounced off Kaiserslautern goalkeeper Luthe in the 80th minute didn't leave the penalty area, but landed in his own goal from the back of the stumbling Tomiak to make it 4:4 - Magdeburg equalized again and the final score.
Hannover's coach Stefan Leitl celebrated the hoped-for success at the reunion with the former club.
96 won against SpVgg Greuther Fürth 2:1 (0:0) and plunged the clover even deeper into the crisis.
After the third win in a row, Hannover is on the way up.
Fürth, on the other hand, remained without a win on the sixth matchday, and the Franconians have been waiting for a threesome for 18 games across the season.
The pressure on Leitl successor Marc Schneider is increasing.
In a game that was balanced in the first half without any highlights, 19-year-old Maximilian Beier (52nd) took the lead with a solo from the left side of the penalty area.
Afimico Pululu (81st) then equalized with a crack from 16 meters into the top left corner.
But Havard Nielsen, of all people, scored the acclaimed winning goal with a header from a cross by Derrick Köhn (86th).
Thanks to Steven Skrzybski's fourth goal of the season, Holstein Kiel recovered from the 7-2 defeat at SC Paderborn a week ago.
The attacker's long-range shot in the 72nd minute brought the North Germans a not undeserved 1-0 (0-0) win over SV Sandhausen.
At the beginning it was a tough game, the first 45 minutes offered exactly a sporting highlight.
In the 39th minute, guest captain Alexander Schirow failed with a header at Kiel goalkeeper Thomas Dähne.
Even after the change of sides, the hosts needed a warm-up phase to get a better grip on the game, but the goal of the day came practically out of nowhere.
After this defeat, the Palatinate are still waiting for their first away point.
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