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Hamburg's Ludovit Reis (left) scored once, Robert Glatzel scored twice against Sandhausen
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In the last match day before the World Cup break, the second division football teams played three spectacular games on Saturday with a total of 23 goals.
Hamburger SV won 4:2 (1:0) against SV Sandhausen and stayed in second place over the winter.
1. FC Heidenheim defeated Jahn Regensburg 5:4 (3:2) and is still in third place, while Regensburg in tenth place has to look down.
Karlsruher SC and FC St. Pauli separated 4:4
Hamburger SV tried right from the start not to end the winter break with two bankruptcies in a row.
Hamburg put Sandhausen under pressure early on, Robert Glatzel made it 1-0 from close range (27th minute).
Sandhausen managed little before the guests equalized out of nowhere after the half-time break.
Cebio Soukou prevailed in the penalty area against the much too hesitant Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer and scored the 1:1 (49th).
HSV didn't let that shake them, continued to push forward and quickly made it 2-1 (56') through Ludovit Reis.
A big HSV mistake brought Sandhausen back into play.
Miro Muheim played a back pass that was far too short.
Sandhausen's Christian Kinsombi intervened and made it 2-2 (56th).
A game developed with almost no rest.
HSV took the lead again with an own goal.
Jean-Luc Dompé sent a sharp cross inside, where Aleksandr Zhirov headed the ball into his own goal from around ten meters (74').
Six minutes later, Glatzel made it 4-2 with his eleventh goal of the season (80').
After that, HSV finished the game confidently.
The basement duel started about 15 minutes late because KSC fans set fire to pyrotechnics before the game started and shrouded the Wildpark stadium in dense fog.
When it started, FC St. Pauli dominated the game - and were still quickly 0:2 behind.
Fabian Schleusener gave Karlsruher SC the lead with the first chance (12'), Marvin Wanitzek quickly made it 2-0 after a counterattack (16').
Then FC St. Pauli did something countable: Lukas Daschner wanted to shoot at goal from the turn, but didn't hit the ball properly.
Johannes Eggestein switched the fastest on the second post and made it 1:2 (24th).
However, it took almost four minutes for the video referee to review the goal before it was recognized.
Shortly thereafter, the KSC struck again.
After a throw-in, the ball came over Wanitzek to Schleusener, who had no trouble from around five meters against the passive defense of the guests from Hamburg (31st).
After that, St. Pauli remained the more active team and closed the gap to 2:3 again with a goal from Eggestein (35th).
Karlsruhe then tried to save the lead until the half-time break - without success.
In the 43rd minute, Eric Smith equalized after a corner to make it 3:3.
The second half also started wildly: Mikkel Kaufmann put the clearly weaker team from Karlsruhe back in the lead with a precise shot (50').
Nevertheless, St. Pauli continued to dominate the game and made it 4:4 in the 61st minute after a remarkable combination by Daschner.
After that it went back and forth, in the end Karlsruhe got even stronger, but they didn't get a goal.
1. FC Heidenheim and Jahn Regensburg played an entertaining game with a better ending for Heidenheim.
Stefan Schimmer (90+4) scored the final point in stoppage time, two minutes earlier Regensburg's Aygün Yildirim (90+2) had scored the 4:4.
Previously, Tim Kleindienst (21st/39th), Adrian Beck (36th) and Denis Thomalla (76th) for Heidenheim and Prince Osei Owusu (14th), Charalambos Makridis (45th + 1) and Nicklas Shipnoski (55th ) hit for the Jahn.
Regensburg had other great chances in front of 9695 spectators: But Blendi Idrizi (60th) only hit the post.
Makridis shot wide of the empty goal from six yards out.
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