SpVg Schonnebeck experienced a bitter disappointment on the sixth match day. The Swallows lost 0-2 to SMünster on Friday evening, Futkeu scores in Fürth victory

1. FC Kaiserslautern jumps to the top of the 2nd Bundesliga table. In a commanding home win against Münster, a striker emerges as the match winner. Fürth also wins in Bielefeld.

1. FC Kaiserslautern has taken the lead in the 2nd Bundesliga, at least for the time being. Coach Torsten Lieberknecht’s team defeated Preußen Münster 4-1 (3-0) at the start of the 6th match day. FCK striker Ivan Prtajin was the man of the match with three goals.

In front of 46,079 spectators at the Fritz Walter Stadium, Kaiserslautern got off to a flying start. The game was almost decided by halftime after two goals from Prtajin (7th and 24th minutes) and one from Naatan Skyttäs (17th minute).

Münster’s Oscar Vilhelmsson, who came on as a substitute after the break, briefly gave the visitors hope with a goal in the 50th minute to make it 1-3. In the 64th minute, however, Prtajin finally crowned himself man of the match and secured FCK’s third win in a row with his third goal of the evening. 1-3 against Fürth: Bielefeld misses out on top spot Arminia Bielefeld, on the other hand, missed out on the chance to move to the top of the table. The East Westphalians lost 1-3 (0-1) to SpVgg Greuther Fürth at their home ground, the Schüco Arena, on Friday evening. Noel Futkeu and Felix Klaus each scored their fifth goal of the season for Fürth.

The Franconians scored for the seventh time in a row at the Alm in eight years and redeemed themselves with the victory for their previous 0:3 home defeat against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. For Arminia, it was their second defeat in their fourth home game.

Futkeu initially put the Franconians ahead in the 25th minute. Then Marius Wörl scored the equalizer in the 50th minute with a shot deflected by Fürth’s Brynjar Ingi Bjarnason. It was the first goal for Wörl, who was signed for €1.5 million, since his permanent transfer to Arminia. He was substituted in the 74th minute due to injury.

In the 81st minute, Fürth’s Marco John sent a cross into the penalty area, which flew into the far corner of the Bielefeld goal without touching another player. In the fourth minute of stoppage time, Klaus scored to make it 3-1.

C St. Tönis.

At the start of the sixth match day in the Oberliga Niederrhein, SpVg Schonnebeck lost 0-2 (0-0) at home to SC St. Tönis.

The Schwalben got off to a good start and almost got off to a perfect start. Tim Schrick, SC St. Tönis’ goalkeeper, came under pressure in the third minute and played the ball into the feet of Schonnebeck’s Philipp Schmidt, who dribbled and lost the ball.

The visitors then got better and better and took control of the game. However, Schonnebeck had the best chance of the first half: after a mistake by former second division professional Jannis Nikolaou, who slipped away, Moritz Isensee grabbed the ball and shot. But Nikolaou got back into the tackle in time, so that the Essen striker could only finish under pressure. Schrick saved the shot (31st minute).

Nevertheless, St. Tönis remained the better team and had a good chance shortly before the half-time whistle in the form of Morten Heffungs. The striker left two opponents behind after a pass from Luca Esposito, but his shot went just wide of the left post (44′). The teams went into the break goalless.

The second half began fiercely contested, with Schonnebeck repeatedly trying their luck with long balls. In the 55th minute, the Schwalben were awarded a free kick from a promising position. Isensee tried his luck directly, but Schrick deflected the ball onto the crossbar in a desperate attempt to save.

Shortly afterwards, Schonnebeck goalkeeper Lukas Lingk was also called into action: the ball bounced around the six-yard box, then Kohei Nakano shot, but Lingk made a huge save to prevent Essen from falling behind (70′).

Four minutes later, however, he was powerless. Substitute Kris Pöstges left three opponents in his wake and passed the ball to Heffungs, who slotted it into the goal off the inside post (74′).

Coach Dirk Tönnies’ team was unable to recover from this shock in the closing stages. The Spielvereinigung tried everything to force an equalizer, but they were far too harmless in attack. Instead, St. Tönis counterattacked and sealed the victory deep into stoppage time with a goal from Maximilian Pohlig (90+7).

Schonnebeck thus missed the chance to at least temporarily overtake league leaders Germania Ratingen. Instead, the Schwalben suffered their second defeat of the still young Oberliga season.