Otherwise, Bayer Leverkusen and 1. FC Köln are Rhenish rivals in the Bundesliga. At the start of the DFB Cup this season, they share the same fate: out in the first round.
In the very first round of the DFB Cup, the Bundesliga soccer teams Bayer Leverkusen and 1. FC Köln suffered serious setbacks.
Champions League participants Leverkusen lost 3: 4 (2: 3) to third division promoted and table leaders SV Elversberg. The Cologne team failed on penalties at the second division leaders Jahn Regensburg with 3:4. After 90 and also after 120 minutes it was 2: 2 (2: 2, 1: 2). Regensburg’s hero was goalkeeper Dejan Stojanovic, who saved Cologne’s Kingsley Ehizibue’s decisive penalty.
The ambitious team of Bayer coach Gerardo Seoane revealed alarming weaknesses in defense in Elversberg. The Saarland hosts already looked like the winners after the 4:2 by captain Kevin Conrad (74th). Leverkusen’s striker Patrik Schick (89th) made it exciting again with his connecting goal. But Bayer couldn’t think of anything else to force the strong outsider into extra time.
VfL Wolfsburg did better in the evening, although coach Niko Kovac had to wait until shortly before the end for the redeeming 1-0 (0-0) at regional league club FC Carl Zeiss Jena on his competitive debut with Lower Saxony. Omar Marmoush provided relief for Wolfsburg.
Hamburg in extra time, Paderborn wins high
Second division club Hamburger SV struggled to win 3-1 (1-1, 0-1) after extra time at third-division promoted SpVgg Bayreuth. The hosts were in the lead up to the 83rd minute. Then Ransford Königsdörffer saved HSV with his goal in extra time. Captain Sebastian Schonlau (97th) provided relief for the Hanseatic League with his goal. Königsdörffer (111th) put the final point.
HSV league competitor Hansa Rostock failed at regional league club VfB Lübeck 0-1 (0-0). Bundesliga relegated SpVgg Greuther Fürth was also eliminated and lost 0:2 (0:1) at fifth division club Stuttgarter Kickers. Second division club 1. FC Heidenheim came to a 2-0 (0-0) win at Bayern regional league club FC Illertissen.
Second division SC Paderborn had no problems at all in the 10:0 (3:0) with the upper division FC Unity Wernigerode. Not quite as clearly, but just as convincingly, Fortuna Düsseldorf came to a 4:1 (1:0) at Kickers Offenbach from the Regionalliga Südwest.
Bundesliga club VfL Bochum had already fulfilled their duty in the early afternoon with a 3-0 (2-0) win at north-east regional league club FC Viktoria Berlin. Second division club FC St. Pauli prevented the end of the regional division club SV Straelen in Duisburg with a happy 4:3 (2:2). The first round of the cup continues on Sunday with eleven games, with seven Bundesliga clubs in action.
Source: Stern
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