Saturday, December 4th 2021
St. Pauli is autumn champion
Burgstaller trumps against Schalke
Cheers at the Millerntor: FC St. Pauli secured the autumn championship in the 2nd division ahead of schedule. Man of the evening is Guido Burgstaller, who scores both goals against his ex-club Schalke 04. For that, an ex-Pauli player meets.
Ironically, Guido Burgstaller shot FC St. Pauli in the second division hit against Schalke 04 for the autumn championship. In the 2-1 (2-0) of the Millerntor-Elf in front of 19,950 spectators, the Austrian ex-Schalke scored his third brace of the season and decided a contested duel in the constant rain, in which both teams had to forego their head coaches due to Corona.
“We enjoy playing football with Guido. He’s just a great guy, every shot is possible with him,” said captain Philipp Ziereis at Sky. The Burgstaller, who moved from Schalke to St. Pauli in 2020, marked his season goals number 13 and 14 before the break – first with a right-footed shot (20th), then with a head (39th). Rodrigo Zalazar (75th) also shortened for Schalke with a hit against his ex-club. For Hamburg it was the first win against the Revierklub since 1996 and the eighth win in the eighth home game of the season.
In the table, the team of assistant coach Loic Fave, who again represented Timo Schultz, is clearly ahead of Darmstadt 98 (29) and Jahn Regensburg (28) with 35 points. Jahn can still follow suit on Sunday, but St. Pauli can no longer take the autumn championship. Schalke (26) fell back to seventh place with Sven Piepenbrock as a replacement for head coach Dimitrios Grammozis.
The game had caused discussions in advance because the Hamburg Senate will only implement the corona restrictions in the coming week. In the almost sold-out stadium at Millerntor, almost 20,000 spectators were guests, many without a mask.