Schwarz-Weiß Köln consolidated their lead in the North Group with a 2-1 home win over Schwarz-Weiß Neuss. Kai Aichinger (4th) and Arne Ries (37th) gave the hosts a 2-0 lead, the follow-up goal from Bartosz Zaworski (E, 55th) gave Neuss hope again, but it wasn’t enough. Because their pursuer Großflottbek had no games at the weekend, Cologne was able to extend their lead to five points.
Marienburger SC has fallen into a small crisis. After a strong season so far (ten points from four games), there were twelve goals conceded in the last two games. Last week’s 0:7 at Flottbek was followed today by a 1:5 against DSD Düsseldorf on their own pitch. Before the MSC scored its goal through Lennard Schulte-Huermann (59th), the guests had Lern Lucas (3rd), Alexander Stroink (4th/50th), Garrick du Toit (E, 42nd) and Tassilo Sura (52nd). .) already met five times. The DSD climbed to third place, Marienburg is sixth.
TC Blau-Weiss Berlin ended its first half of the season in the South Group with a sense of achievement. The capital city team won their last autumn game of 2023 at the Wiesbaden THC with 3:1 (2:1). The hosts, who had defeated TuS Lichterfelde 6-1 the day before, were only able to reduce a 0-2 deficit thanks to Ricardo Huber (19th) after goals from Mark Kopper (9th) and Moritz Bonanni (19th). It remained 1:2 for a long time before Moritz Kehlitz gave the guests the better end with a seven-meter penalty (57′). With ten points in their account, Blau-Weiss currently has a six-point cushion over the relegation zone.
TuS Lichterfelde didn’t end the trip to the south empty-handed either. At TG Frankenthal, the Berliners were close to making it three after leads by Fabian Posselt (7m, 18th) and Julius Kortenkamp (50th), but Torben Theobald (E, 28th/59th) scored twice to make it 2-2 for them TG, who then won the shoot-out 4:3. Zurke (2), Reinhard and Koch scored for Frankenthal, Posselt, Wienert and Breucker for TuSLi. Frankenthal has won all three shootout competitions it has competed in so far.
Photo: E.Tippelt
