Luxembourg magic foot will become a savior against Elversberg

The 1. FC Heidenheim kept his chances of another season in the Bundesliga after a strong catch-up. In the first duel of the « Dorfrelegation » with the SV Elversberg, the team of coach Frank Schmidt fought for a 2-2 after a two-goal deficit on Thursday evening and has continued hope for the third season in the Oberhaus before the second leg of the 2nd league on Monday (8.30 p.m.).

In front of 15,000 spectators in the sold -out Heidenheimer Arena, Lukas Petkov (18th ‘) and Fisnik Asllani (42.’) put the guests in the lead. Heidenheim was initially revoked the connection goal from Omar Traoré to Var-Check, but Tim Siersleben in the second half scored to 1: 2 (62. ‘). Mathias Honsak (64. ‘) equalized for the FCH. A shot from substitute Luxembourg Leonardo Scienza preceded both goals: first by free kick, then out of the game from the penalty area.

Favorite role rejected

In the run -up to the game, in which the two longest -serving coaches met in professional football, Schmidt had declared his counterpart to Horst Steffen as the « coach of the season ». On the other hand, despite the honor of his colleague and the better form with eight games without defeat, he wanted to know nothing of an advantage for the SVE.

« If you look at the latest record, I won’t come with a chance of 50:50, » emphasized Steffen. Since the reintroduction of the relegation in 2009, the second division clubs had only prevailed in three out of 16 duels.