After starting its first ever campaign among the seniors with two defeats and a draw that tasted like victory in the last stage at the home ground of its host Borussia Dortmund, runner-up Borussia Dortmund 2-2 after being two goals behind, Heidenheim succeeded on Sunday in emerging victorious at the expense of its guest Bremen, who appears to be suffering from a complex on the ground of its rival. It lost to them in 2011 in the cup competition (1-2), then tied in the second leg of the relegation and promotion play-offs in 2020 (2-2) and lost in the second division in 2022 (1-2).
Heidenheim ended the first half leading with two straight goals through Tim Kleindiest (5 from a penalty kick) and Irene Dinksy (44), who was facing his original team since he was on loan from Bremen until the end of the current season.
But Bremen returned to the match in the second half and reduced the gap through Marvin Doksch, who headed a penalty kick that he executed himself and was blocked by the goalkeeper (49) and Mitchell Weiser (64).
However, Dinksy struck again and put his team back in front with his second personal goal (68), before Jan-Niklas Bieste settled the result with a fourth goal for the hosts (76), thus confirming the third defeat this season for Bremen in four matches.
Dinksy (21 years old) said about facing his hometown team, saying, “It is a great feeling. He scored my first brace in the German League and it came against Bremen among all the other teams,” adding to the “Dazon” streaming network, “My whole family is here today, so things cannot To be better than that.”
Heidenheim’s first victory in the “Bundeselga” came on the anniversary of his coach Frank Schmidt’s celebration of taking over the job 16 years ago, making him the coach who served the most with one team in the history of the German League.
The 49-year-old took over the task of supervising the team in 2007 when it was competing in the fifth division, but on Sunday he refused to blame the victory over Bremen more than it deserved, saying, “There is nothing extraordinary about the victory that was achieved today. It was just a wonderful football match.”
Darmstadt lost its first victory in the first division since defeating Freiburg 3-0 on April 29, 2017, by drawing with its guest Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-3 after leading 3-0.
Darmstadt began its return to the Bundesliga for the first time since the 2006-2017 season with three consecutive defeats, but it seemed determined on Sunday to achieve its first victory, ending the first half against its guest, who came from a draw and two defeats in the first three stages, led by a hat-trick from Marvin Mehlem (8) and Croatian Matej. Maglica (10) and Tim Skarke (33).
But after having to complete the match with ten players as a result of Maglica’s expulsion for causing a penalty kick missed by Czech substitute Tomas Kvančačara (51st), Mönchengladbach took advantage of the numerical superiority to reduce the gap through American Jordan Cepaccio (56th) and then substitute Florian Neuhaus (73rd), before Kvančara compensated for the penalty kick. The missed by equalizing (77) to give his team its second point at the start of the new season.
© 2023 AFP
2023-09-17 17:33:04
#German #Championship #Heidenheims #victory #among #adults #Mönchengladbach #returns #afar
