Aue and Dynamo lose, Hansa historic, Cottbus draw

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Cottbus miss out on second place

The second team of Hannover II halted Energie Cottbus' winning streak in a clash of promoted teams. After four successive victories, the team of Energie coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz was held to a goalless draw in a game with few chances and missed out on a leap to second place in the table. "Whoever scores a goal here wins. We'll take the point. If you look at the course of the game, it's okay," said Tolcay Cigercy, who narrowly missed the goal in the first half, on Magentasport.

"Totally dissatisfied" was Cottbus coach Wollitz, who harshly criticized his team's performance. The team played with mistakes, uninspired, with too little mentality and gallantry: "I'd rather lose and play a good game. When you have the chance to finish second, I play differently. This league is so tight, no team can afford to do anything."

Wollitz is just as annoyed about the upcoming international break. The match in the national cup at Oranienburger FC scheduled for next weekend has been postponed due to US President Joe Biden's visit to Germany. "We don't have a test match opponent either," said Wollitz, "we will make good use of the 14 days, but we should first analyze this game thoroughly." Next matchday, leaders SV Sandhausen will visit Lusatia.

Historic Hansa victory hurts Aue

Only the old-timers at FC Hansa Rostock still know this feeling of happiness: For the first time in 57 years, the Baltic club celebrated a victory in the Erzgebirge. Ahmet Gürleyen's 2:1 goal in stoppage time was the first away win of the season for the relegated second division side, while FC Erzgebirge Aue suffered their second successive defeat. The crucial moment, as everyone involved saw it, was the yellow card for Aue's Pascal Fallmann in the 75th minute. From then on, only Hansa played.

"We were the more active team, especially in terms of possession. There are games like that where you're good and close to three points and still lose. But the effort was right. The team showed exactly the reaction I wanted to see after Cologne. And that's what counts for me. That gives me hope and strength for the next games. With an attitude like that, we will pick up many more points," said Aue coach Pavel Dotchev, encouraging himself and the entire region. However, it was noticeable that once again the key players Marvin Stefaniak, Boris Tashchy, Marcel Bär and Mirnes Pepic remained extremely pale, did not provide any pace and Aue's play seemed devoid of ideas.

Hansa benefited from this, but also from the tactical tricks of coach Bernd Hollerbach. He ordered his team to adopt a more defensive approach in the first half, only to surprise the hosts with more offense in the second half. And they were much more effective in taking their chances. Sigurd Haugen's equalizer (32') after Aue had taken the lead through Kilian Jakob (12') was the Cogs' first major opportunity, with the winning goal coming from a corner kick. "Standards are one of our weapons," said captain Franz Pfanne.

Dynamo not efficient enough

Dynamo Dresden slipped into a results crisis early on in the season and lost the lead in the table in the process. Dynamo coach Thomas Stamm's team have only won once in their last four games, and the 2-1 defeat at Borussia Dortmund II to kick off matchday 9 was their second defeat of the season. "We played a good game for long stretches with many chances over 90 minutes that we didn't take. On the other hand, we conceded two chances that we didn't defend well," said Stamm.

Jordi Paulina shortly after the restart (46') and Antonio Forti from 25 meters ensured the victory for the Bundesliga reserve, Christoph Daferner only took advantage of one of the many opportunities to equalize in the meantime (66'). "We have to blame ourselves for not being as efficient in the final meters. There were chances. Dortmund were much more efficient," said Stamm.