Points saved at the last second and draw in the third division

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Dynamo save point in stoppage time

Dynamo Dresden failed to move to within one point of third division leaders SV Sandhausen. Coach Thomas Stamm's team also failed to secure a full point in their third home game in a row and had to settle for a 3:3 (0:1) draw against Rot-Weiss Essen.

"We're not in a position to play to nil. The goals weren't defended the way they should have been at this level. Overall, we have to defend better. We didn't lead the duels the way we need to," said Dynamo coach Thomas Stamm and didn't just take his defense to task: "It's not just the last chain, we also have to close the spaces in front of it." Captain Niklas Hauptmann also criticized the "enormous effort to score a goal. We come back twice and then immediately go behind again."

Manuel Wintzheimer (37th minute) had put the visitors ahead after a counter-attack. Hauptmann equalized immediately after the restart in front of 29,836 spectators. On the counter-attack (47'), Julian Eitschberger scored a solo goal to give the visitors the lead immediately. Jonas Sterner (78) equalized again before Kelsey Owusu Meisel (80) scored what was supposed to be Essen's winning goal. However, Stefan Kutschke scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time to secure a deserved draw.

60 minutes not enough for Energie Cottbus

Energie Cottbus remained unbeaten for the sixth game in a row, but failed to catch up with league leaders SV Sandhausen. "If we were a top team, we would have won the game," said Energie coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz on "MagentaSport" after the 1-1 draw against Sandhausen. Cottbus were on course for victory for an hour after taking a 1-0 lead through Maximilian Krauß (39') and had a great chance to score a second goal through Tolcay Cigerci in the 54th minute, before the team "became too inactive, no longer narrowed the pitch and no longer supported each other", Wollitz complained. Sandhausen improved and equalized through Axel Borgmann's own goal in the 71st minute.

"We have to live with the point, of course we would have liked to win, but we were too passive in the middle of the second half, so the point is okay," said goalscorer Krauß. The team, who were similarly inactive on the pitch in Hanover, will have to be more active again by Tuesday when they travel to Aue for the derby, which, however, currently has completely different worries.

Erzgebirge Aue: "Got one over on three occasions"

FC Erzgebirge Aue are being dragged further down the table after their third defeat in a row and just four points from their last six games. Although coach Pavel Dotchev's team had more of the play in the 3-0 defeat at Waldhof Mannheim, the home side scored the goals. "We don't concede very much, but what we do concede ends up in the net," said Anthony Barilla on "MagentaSport" about the goals from Terrence Boyd (32), Kelvin Arase (77) and Kennedy Okpala in the fourth minute of stoppage time.

The Erzgebirge side particularly missed the goalscoring threat of Marcel Bär, who was absent due to illness. Without their top scorer, the Violets generated virtually no goalscoring threat. Dotchev spoke of a "snapshot" that should not be despaired of: "I don't think we should throw everything away now and rediscover soccer." New fire within the team will be necessary, however, as Energie Cottbus will be visiting the Erzgebirgsstadion next Tuesday. "That's the only good thing about the 0:3: that we'll continue straight away on Tuesday," said Barilla, "now we've been beaten three times. And now we have to make sure that things go in a different direction again."

Hansa Rostock back below the bottom

In the duel between the relegated team and the promoted team, Hansa Rostock wanted to leave the relegation places with a win over Alemannia Aachen after the 2:1 away success at Erzgebirge Aue. But they failed to do so, as Aachen once again proved to be an extremely uncomfortable guest and won 2:1. "We can't manage to get any consistency in our performance. Even a point against Aachen is not enough. The defeat hurts incredibly. We have to bring this disgustingness, which also characterizes us, more consistently onto the pitch. That was a really shitty day," said Hansa captain Franz Pfanne.

Sasa Strujic became Aachen's match-winner when he scored from a corner in the 88th minute. "Standards decide tight games and we got one in," said Pfanne. Rostock had scored a similar goal in the 2-1 win before the international break and Pfanne had said: "Standards are one of our weapons." Not this time. Even the interim equalizer by Sigurd Haugen (42'), who had equalized Strujic's lead (16'), did nothing to change that. "If you don't take your chances, you end up conceding one. That's bitter, of course, because we invested a lot and dominated the second half," said Hansa coach Bernd Hollerbach, for whom things could now be getting tight. He was full of praise for the set-piece that led to the defeat. That was a sensationally good corner kick," said the coach.