2:3 - HSV loses unluckily to FCM

... and an uncrowned chase

After the change of ends, disaster seemed to continue to take its course. The second half was only six minutes old when Magdeburg scored the first real attack of the second 45 minutes to go 2-0 up through Atik's goal from an offside-suspicious position. But at that moment, nothing broke down for the Rothosen, instead an all-or-nothing mentality spread. On the bench, where Walter made three changes in the 55th minute, and on the pitch, where the Reds now put the pedal to the metal. With success! After Reis' preparatory work, Königsdörffer scored the quick 1:2 equaliser (58th), and only three minutes later he scored what was supposed to be the 2:2 equaliser - but this goal was retrospectively taken back after a VAR warning and a review by the referee. This was the start of a highly exciting final phase in the "Hexenkessel Volksparkstadion", in which the Walter team threw everything forward, the FCM naturally found spaces to counter-attack and in which it went back and forth at times - and in which the Magdeburg team made it 3:1 in the last minutes through the substitute Rieckmann in the 88th minute against the Rothosen, who were far advanced and therefore defensively unsorted. However, Walter's team did not give up, and in injury time the debutant Sanne made contact with the ball to make it 2:3, and in the final seconds they attacked with all their might and with Heuer Fernandes, but Magbedurg's Gnaka saved on the goal line before Reis hit the crossbar with his head in the 95th minute. It was the final point of an unbelievable final phase, which was finally not crowned with the 3:3 equaliser.