SG Oldenburg/Göhl is 0:7 behind, then the association league team equalizes within 30 minutes and wins the game on penalties. The coach says: “That was a miracle.” Watch the dramatic comeback here in the video.
If the Brazilian national team had shown as much fighting spirit in the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup against Germany as SG Oldenburg/Göhl did in the round of 16 of the “Flens Cup”, the team around Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Neuer would never have become world champions. After trailing 0-7 until half an hour before the end, the association league team equalized 7-7 in stoppage time and ultimately won 12-11 in the penalty shootout.
The “Flens Cup”, also known as “Master of Champions”, is a football tournament in Schleswig-Holstein in which the champions of the various leagues in the state, from the Oberliga to District Class C, compete against each other.
Everything was going according to plan for SV Wasbek until the 58th minute. The league leader in the West Association League really led the way for their opponents. Then Silas Bünning scored 1:7. But it wasn’t just a matter of cosmetic results – one of the biggest comebacks in amateur football followed and SV Wasbek were no longer able to set foot on the pitch.
“Of course we made some changes to protect our regular staff. But it was not even remotely foreseeable that the worst 30 minutes would follow,” said SV Wasbek coach Pasqual Rüdiger to the “Kieler Nachrichten”. Within twelve minutes, Bünning single-handedly reduced the score to 3:7 before Mats Sören Burmeister made the sensation tangible with a brace. When Wasbek defender Valmir Idrizi was thrown off the pitch in the 82nd minute when the score was 5:7, the unsettled team only wanted to save the result over time, said Rüdiger.
Last minute goal in added time
It happened as it had to happen: Dennis Bräuer scored the next goal in the 92nd minute, and Mats Burmeister equalized the score at 7:7 in the seventh minute of added time. “It was just a miracle. “I only really believed in it when we scored the goal to make it 5:7,” said comeback coach Lars Brunner to the “Lübecker Nachrichten”.
In the penalty shootout, SG Oldenburg/Gühl went through the door into the quarter-finals that the comeback had previously opened. The inflamed hosts converted all five attempts. Goalkeeper Mike Benecke parried two shots from the opponent. At the end of this crazy game it was 12:11 and a historic cup evening.
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