Wagner’s Hachinger win furious promotion thriller in Cottbus

Sandro Wagner plays with Unterhaching in the promotion games to the regional league. It is the duel between two former Bundesliga clubs. SPORT1 accompanies the first leg from 8.30 p.m. in the LIVETICKER.

Happy ending for Sandro Wagner?

the 35 year old, who will leave SpVgg Unterhaching at the end of the season, wants to lead the former Bundesliga club to the 3rd division.

The Wagner team, champions of the Bavarian regional league, compete in two relegation duels with Energie Cottbus, champions of the Northeast regional league. Game one takes place on Wednesday evening at the Stadium of Friendship. SPORTS1 accompanies the duel from 8.30 p.m LIVE TICKER.

Energie Cottbus – SpVgg Unterhaching: 1:2

SpVgg Unterhaching wins the first leg of the promotion games 2-1. This gives them a good starting position for the second leg on Sunday in front of their home crowd.

Players are slowly losing their strength. After Pisot, Hobsch is now lying in the penalty area with cramps.

After a chance through Hobsch, Unterhaching gets a corner kick. However, this cannot be carried out at first, as a few Cottbus fans throw cups again. Captain Borgmann has to calm the situation down a bit.

The guests switch again. Benedikt Bauer replaces Niclas Anspach.

Badu asserts himself centrally in front of the generic penalty area and plays the ball to Hottmann on the outside right. He takes the ball and closes from an acute angle. However, Vollath can clear the ball to a corner.

Another change at Unterhaching. Florian Schmid replaces Mathias Fetsch, who scored the 2:1 lead.

Now Wagner also decides to change. Skarlatidis leaves the field and is replaced by Maier. Before that, Cottbuser Badu came into play for Oesterhelweg.

The hosts combine well on the opposing sixteen. Borgmann closes from 17 meters, but the ball slips away from him and flies well past the goal.

Apparently, Pisot falls to the ground with a cramp. Back at the edge of the field, Cottbus fans throw beer mugs at him and his supervisors.

Unnecessary boarding by Fetsch against Hofmann after Patrick Hobsch had previously stopped at the center line. Wollitz is a bit upset and receives a yellow card for complaining.

Wollitz decides to switch through for the first time. Heike and Shcherbakovski come into the game for wahling and Thiele. Previously, Jonas Hofmann was given a yellow card for tripping Stiefler.

Skarlatidis has plenty of space on the right side and crosses the ball to the far post. Hobsch is already lurking there, and he can dangerously head the ball onto the goal. Bethke can only let the ball bounce off the line at first, but then he keeps the ball on the goal line when he catches up.

Borgmann tries to get a high ball just before the opponent’s penalty area. Schwabl supports him, causing Borgmann to land unhappily on his shoulder. Gerach shows the first yellow card of the game.

After the break, the home side put a lot of pressure on. Both Stiefler and Kujovic have good chances from distance in the first few minutes.

The teams return to the field. Both coaches refrain from changing. The Cottbus fans open the second half with a pyro show.

Unterhaching has been freezing in front of the opposing goal so far. The early goal only shocked the Cottbus team before they were able to equalize eight minutes later through Hildebrandt. Unterhaching could have taken the lead again in the 24th minute with a dangerous header, but Hobsch only hit the crossbar. In the 37th minute, Fetsch was able to deflect the ball to make it 2:1.

Schwabl can again cross the ball freely from the right into the penalty area. In the middle, Cottbus goalkeeper Bethke jumps past the ball and the ball slips through to Skarlatidis. Cottbus gives him a lot of space in the middle and he can shoot at goal without any problems. Fetsch then unintentionally deflects the ball into the lower left corner.

Wahling gets the ball through on the outside left and dribbles towards the goal. Although Schwabl can press him, Vollath comes out and creates a dangerous scoring chance for Cottbus. Wahling shoots from an acute angle, but cannot get the ball on goal.

Schwabl crosses dangerously in front of the Cottbus goal from the right wing. The ball lands directly at Patrick Hobsch, who can only head the ball against the crossbar from ten meters.

Cottbus gets a free kick just before the opponent’s penalty area. However, the shot remains harmless and Vollath has no problems holding onto the ball.

Jonas Hildebrandt converts a hand penalty to equalize 1:1. Before that, the ball flew halfway to Thiele, who was in a duel with Pisot inside the penalty area. The ball flew from Thiele’s leg to Pisot’s hand. Timo Gerach made the correct decision and pointed to the point.

Dream start for Sandro Wagner and his team. Vollath’s long ball slips through and Niclas Anspach pushes the ball past Bethke from close range. Even if it looked offside beforehand, the goal counts.

In the 4th minute there is the first shot on goal of the game. However, Patrick Hobsch fails because of Bethke.

Referee Timo Gerach has just approved the game. Unterhaching toasts.

“We tried to stay in content from the start and just focused on playing this game. We didn’t even have the thought as a team that the game might not go ahead. Of course, a club would like to report from the start and would like to have money without end, but it’s just that it’s not easy in the regional league, ”said Wagner about the club’s late decision to play the game.

Unterhaching coach Sandro Wagner trusts in his team. Compared to the last league game against Schweinfurt, there are no changes at Unterhaching.

Unterhaching: Vollath, Pisot – J. Welzmüller – Schwabl – Ehlich, Stiefler – Waidner, Anspach – Skarlatidis, Hobsch – Fetsch

Energie Cottbus coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz has to change to two positions compared to the final in the Brandenburg State Cup. Dennis Slamar is missing due to a yellow-red suspension from the last league game against Chemie Leipzig. Malcolm Badu is just sitting on the bench today. Arnel Kujovic and Timmy Thiele start for the two.

Cottbus: Bethke – Hasse, Eisenhuth, Hildebrandt, Borgmann – Kujovic, Oesterhelweg, J. Hofmann – Hottmann, Thiele, wahling

About the ascent format was in the past few days heavily discussed. The reason: the five regional leagues are fighting for four promotion places. According to a rotating system, a relegation between the divisions North, Northeast and Bavaria is held annually. “Of course it’s a bit crazy that a master doesn’t get promoted,” Wagner criticized in an interview BR24Sport. Cottbus coach Pele Wollitz called it “absurd” and “bottomless”.

But not only the promotion regulation, also the behavior of the Hachinger annoyed Wollitz. Its President Manfred Schwabl had long left open whether they would even compete. The reason for this was the financial challenges that come with promotion.