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Hamburg's Robert Glatzel (centre) missed a penalty against 1. FC Magdeburg
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On the 15th matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga, HSV kept up with leaders Darmstadt 98 and won 3-1 (1-1) against Jahn Regensburg.
In the other Sunday games, an offensive Fürth prevailed in the second game under new coach Alexander Zorniger and won 1-0 (1-0) at Eintracht Braunschweig.
In the basement duel, 1. FC Nürnberg lost to 1. FC Magdeburg 1:2 (0:0).
After the last three defeats in a row, HSV managed to win 3-2 (2-1) away against Paderborn last matchday.
The Hamburgers wanted to follow this up in order to stay on the heels of leaders Darmstadt.
However, Jahn Regensburg knew how to take advantage of HSV's offensive orientation with a storming full-back Ransford Königsdörffer early on: After a through pass from Joshua Mees, HSV was taken by surprise and Kaan Calisanker pushed in to take the lead (7').
HSV immediately equalized with Mario Vušković's long-range shot (12').
After about half an hour, HSV settled in half of Regensburg and kept creating chances.
Robert Glatzel (25th), Königsdörffer (29th) and Sonny Kittel (36th) remained too harmless with their degrees.
Missed penalty and HSV assault
The second half began with a penalty for HSV: Jan Elvedi tried to sneak the ball away from Kittel, but only hit the Hamburger.
Jahn goalkeeper Thorsten Kirschbaum (49') parried Glatzel's penalty kick.
HSV then turned up the heat, and Kirschbaum again had to defuse the chances of Königsdorffer (56th) and Miro Muheim (66th).
Königsdörffer then did better in the 80th minute and scored for the 2:1 lead.
Glatzel made it 3-1 with a powerful shot from just outside the penalty area (90').
In the table basement, the teams from Nuremberg and promoted Magdeburg met in their first league duel.
As expected, the weakest offensive in the league from Nuremberg struggled, Magdeburg had the better chances in the first round.
Mohamed El Hankouri (24') shot just wide of the post, Connor Krempicki headed to the crossbar (34').
In the second half, Nuremberg managed to increase the pressure with offensive changes, but remained largely harmless and fell behind through Cristiano Piccini (58th).
Lucky for FCN: just a few minutes later, Magdeburg keeper Dominik Reimann lets a back pass slip – equalizing with the goalkeeper's own goal (64').
A penalty was awarded after Christopher Schindler fouled Baris Atik.
Piccini scored for the second time, Christian Mathenia dived into the right corner but couldn't prevent the goal (76').
Fürth started cheerfully.
Ragnar Ache (18th) narrowly missed, Max Christiansen's shot from 17 meters out was parried by Braunschweig goalkeeper Jasmin Fejzic in the follow-up.
He then had no chance when Armindo Sieb scored: the striker kicked the ball from eleven yards out into the top right corner to make it 1-0 (41').
Fürth got the maximum out of a few chances but more game shares overall at halftime.
Braunschweig then came out of the dressing room stronger.
Nathan de Medina narrowly missed the goal from 17 meters out (59'), Filip Benkovic hit the post (74').
It was the best chance to equalize.
Thus Fürth also won in the second game under the new coach Alexander Zorniger.
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