Wednesday November 24th 2021
Clear success in the catch-up game
St. Pauli is whirling back to first place
With the seventh home win in the seventh home game of the season, FC St. Pauli has regained the top position in the 2nd Bundesliga. An early and a late goal provide clarity against SV Sandhausen. 18 corona cases among the guests made it necessary to reschedule.
The FC St. Pauli put away the bitter defeat from the top game at Darmstadt 98 and recaptured the top of the table in the 2nd Bundesliga. Hamburg defeated the penultimate SV Sandhausen 3-1 (2-0) in a catch-up game on matchday 13. Guido Burgstaller (2nd) with his eleventh goal of the season and Daniel-Kofi Kyereh (14th) made things seem clear early on at Millerntor. Immanuel Höhn (67th) brought the guests back before Kyereh restored the old distance after a counterattack (79th). Pauli is three points ahead of the lilies from Darmstadt, who scored 0: 4 on Saturday.
Kyereh served Burgstaller spectacularly with the hoe, the Austrian finished with a cool flick for an early lead. St. Pauli remained the clear dominant team in front of 23,401 spectators and could have led significantly higher than with two goals at the break. After the break, the home side lost a bit of bite, Sandhausen found its way back into the game and came up. Kyereh was then allowed to cheer twice in the final minutes – first directly after the goal and then again just four minutes later when the video assistant had decided on “No offside”. St. Pauli extended its start record with the seventh home win in the seventh home game of the season.
There was a moment of shock at the beginning of the second half after a free-kick cross from Sandhausen’s Marcel Ritzmaier. In the guests’ penalty area, Pauli keeper Nikola Vasilj, offensive player Simon Makienok and SVS defender Aleksandr Shirov crashed into each other. Vasilj and Shirov stayed where they were at first, only Makienok seemed to have got away unharmed. After a short treatment – Shirov had been hit in the head and looked a bit dazed in the meantime – both were able to finish the game.
The game was actually scheduled for November 7th. However, it could not take place as planned because Sandhausen was not available to the minimum number of players required by the DFL game regulations after a corona outbreak with 18 cases.