Kofi-Kyereh wins the derby late for St. Pauli

Little to seperate the two after frantic first half

Daniel Thioune made a number of tactical and enforced changes from the disappointing 3-2 loss to Würzburger Kickers last Sunday; Amadou Onana, Jan Gyamerah, Aaron Hunt and Khaled Narey replaced by Jeremy Dudziak, Josha Vagnoman, Stephan Ambrosius and Bakery Jatta. The game started at a frenetic pace, both teams motivated to get the derby win for their fans, the visitors more successful implementing their matchplan in the opening exchanges. Sonny Kittel was inches away from putting the Rothosen into the lead from set-piece situations twice inside the opening ten minutes, a 40-yard effort crashing against the crossbar barely 60 seconds into the game, and a second curling effort from closer to Dejan Stojanovic's goal beaten away by the Middlesbrough loanee. The Rothosen looked most likely to make the breakthrough via one of Kittel's free-kicks, Gideon Jung heading into the ground and onto the bar when left alone six yards out in the 21st minute. 

After an energetic start from the visitors in the first quarter of an hour, the hosts grew into the game in the second, Rodrigo Zalazar's long-range effort from a tight angle whizzing just past the upright. Sven Ulreich was able to prove his worth in the 23rd minute, reacting quickly to a close-range header from Guido Burgstaller to keep the scores level. The final quarter of an hour saw no dip in the energy levels from either side but little goalmouth action to speak of as the game switched from one side to the other, an even contest developing between two sides.