Wolfsburg beats Dortmund
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Jonas Wind shocks BVB shortly before the penalty shootout: In the second round of the DFB Cup, Dortmund have to give up, while VfL Wolfsburg can celebrate a 1-0 win after extra time against the black and yellow. Despite the anger at referee Daniel Schlager, VfB Stuttgart is also in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup thanks to national player Chris Führich. The runner-up had a difficult time in the 2-1 (1-1) draw against last year’s finalists 1. FC Kaiserslautern from the 2nd Bundesliga. Lautern’s league rivals 1. FC Köln are successful against Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel, and second division bottom team Jahn Regensburg eliminates Greuther Fürth.
Borussia Dortmund’s crisis has worsened further. After recent disappointments in the Bundesliga and Champions League, BVB was also knocked out of the DFB Cup in the second round. The 0-1 (0-0, 0-0) defeat after extra time at VfL Wolfsburg further increases the pressure on the new Dortmund coach Nuri Şahin.
Jonas Wind only scored the decisive goal in the 117th minute. Bitter results, many injuries, no development in terms of play: a lot is coming together at the moment for last season’s Champions League finalists.
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Although Stuttgart coach Sebastian Hoeneß changed his team to a total of nine positions compared to the weekend, the Swabians dominated the game and took the lead through Nick Woltemade (14th minute). After the guests were unlucky when Daisuke Yokota hit the post, they benefited a little later from a whistle from the referee, who mistakenly awarded a penalty. Boris Tomiak equalized (43′). It was thanks to Führich that Schlager’s misjudgment didn’t come to fruition. He decided the game in favor of the favorite (75th).
The Bundesliga promoted Holstein Kiel, still without a win in the league, also failed early in the DFB Cup and once again gave the struggling second division team 1. FC Köln a sense of success. After winning 3-0 (1-0) in the second cup round against the North Germans, the relegated team is back in the cup round of 16 for the first time in three years. Thanks to the goals from Tim Lemperle (8th minute) and substitute Luca Waldschmidt (84th/90th+7), coach Gerhard Struber also has a little more peace again.
In the duel between interim coaches, Andreas Patz and SSV Jahn Regensburg beat Leonhard Haas from Fürth in the DFB Cup. Four days after the 3:8 disaster at 1. FC Nürnberg in the 2nd Bundesliga and the subsequent separation from promotion coach Joe Enochs, Jahn pulled out a 1-0 (0-0) win against SpVgg Greuther Fürth, which ended up being outnumbered into the round of 16. For the previous assistant coach Patz, it was a perfect debut as boss on the sidelines.
A bonus of over 800,000 euros sweetened Jahn’s first victory since August. Defender Rasim Bulic took care of this in front of 11,627 spectators in Regensburg’s Jahnstadion. When the ball fell at his feet in the penalty area following a free kick in the 59th minute, Bulic scored with his left. Fürth’s goalkeeper Nahuel Noll didn’t cut a good figure. Just four minutes later, Bulic, who was over-motivated after his goal, was shown a red card for a serious foul on Fürth’s Niko Gießelmann deep in the opponent’s half. Outnumbered, his colleagues self-sacrificingly defended the 1-0 lead in the Regensburg fog.
