Promotion-hopefuls Magdeburg stunned Cologne to pick up a first home win of the season. - © IMAGO

2. Bundesliga

Bundesliga 2 Matchday 22 highlights: Hamburg draw at Regensburg after Magdeburg beat leaders Cologne

17.02.2025

With the chance to go top, Hamburg had to settle for a point away at bottom side Jahn Regensburg on Sunday, after Magdeburg stunned promotion rivals Cologne...

Magdeburg 3-0 Cologne
Goals: 1-0 Heber 73’, 2-0 El Hankouri 79‘, 3-0 Loric 90’+2

Cologne travelled to Magdeburg with an opportunity to extend their lead at the top to five points. The Billy Goats completely dominated the first half, but were punished for not making more of their chances in quite emphatic fashion. After Alexander Ahl-Holmström had a goal against the run of play ruled out for offside, Magdeburg took complete control. They had to wait until the 70th minute to get in front, with Daniel Heber the scorer. Mo El Hankouri didn't take long to add a second, before substitute Samuel Loric put the seal on Magdeburg's first home win of the season in added time. They're now just two points behind promotion rivals Cologne, with 12 games to go.

Fortuna Düsseldorf 2-1 Hertha Berlin
Goals: 0-1 Reese 13’, 1-1 Pejčinović 55’, 2-1 Pejčinović 58’

Düsseldorf turned things around in Matchday 22’s Saturday-night fixture. Hertha deservedly led at the break thanks to an impressive first half-showing, capped off by Fabian Reese’s first league goal of the campaign. However, a quickfire double from half-time substitute Dženan Pejčinović turned the tide, and the home side then held on to secure victory and go just three points off the top, while the Old Lady’s poor run of form was compounded.

Schalke 2-1 Karlsruhe
Goals: 1-0 Bachmann 6', 1-1 Jensen 25', 2-1 Ba 34'

Visiting Karlsruhe gave a Schalke a run for their money at the VELTINS-Arena, but the Royal Blues proved too good as they claimed a first win in three to climb to 11th. Things looked good early after Janik Bachmann popped up to bag the opener with his side's first shot, and although Jensen returned the favour before the half-hour mark, Schalke's winter signing Pape Meïssa Ba bagged his first Bundesliga 2 goal to claim all three points.

Jahn Regensburg 1-1 Hamburg
Goals: 1-0 Adamyan 6’, 0-1 Selke 83‘ (pen.)
Red card: Sahiti 76’

A quick counterattack finished off by Sargis Adamyan for bottom-of-the-table Jahn put HSV’s hopes of reclaiming the top spot in jeopardy inside just six minutes. The visitors couldn’t find a response before the interval thanks to Jahn’s tenacious defending and despite emerging in the second half with more attacking impetus, Felix Gebhardt denied Davie Selke from the spot shortly after the restart. Things went from bad to worse for HSV as Emir Sahiti was dismissed after picking up two quickfire yellow cards within two minutes. But Selke stepped up to take a second penalty late on, shaking off his initial miss to rescue a point for 10-man Hamburg.

Kaiserslautern 0-0 Hannover

Kaiserslautern can count themselves lucky after surviving a 22-shot onslaught from visiting Hannover, the 0-0 scoreline proving enough to send the Red Devils provisionally second before Hamburg's trip to Regensburg on Sunday. The Fritz-Walter Stadion faithful will be hoping for better, however, having seen their side on the back foot for long spells and with the woodwork to thank for denying the dangerous Lars Ginsdorf in the first half. The result sees Hannover, who have now drawn their last four games, dip to eighth.

Paderborn 2-0 Preußen Münster
Goals: 1-0 Mehlem 81', 2-0 Ansah 84'

Preußen Münster remain in deep relegation trouble after losing in Paderborn. The visitors were the much better side in a first half devoid of any real quality in the final third. Florian Pick had the best chance before the break, but put his attempted chip over the crossbar. Paderborn - so effective in the second half of matches this season - took charge from there, with substitute Ilyas Ansah the catalyst for victory. Three minutes after teeing up Marvin Mehlem for a long-overdue opening goal, the Germany youth international finished with aplomb for his fourth goal of the campaign. Paderborn stay firmly in the promotion hunt, leaving Münster looking nervously over their shoulders at the drop zone.

Elversberg 2-0 Greuther Fürth
Goals: 1-0 Asllani 6', 2-0 Sickinger 45'
Red card: Petkov 90'+4

Elversberg maintained their promotion push with a convincing 2-0 win over Greuther Fürth on Saturday. The hosts raced into an early lead thanks to Fisnik Asllani’s sixth-minute opener, his 13th league goal of the season. They doubled their lead on the stroke of half-time through Carlo Sickinger’s superb volley and ultimately saw out the win in relative comfort, despite Lukas Petkov’s late red card.

Nuremberg 1-0 Ulm
Goal: 1-0 Jander 85'

Casper Jander proved the hero for Nuremberg as Ulm came calling on Matchday 22, the 21-year-old bagging a spectacular last-gasp winner to make it three wins on the bounce for Miroslav Klose's side. Victory was far from a foregone conclusion in this hard-fought encounter against second-from-bottom Ulm, but the young midfielder deservedly made sure of all three points with a long-range thunderbolt that saw Nuremberg firm in the top half of the table.

Eintracht Braunschweig 1-0 Darmstadt
Goals: 1-0 Tempelmann 60'
Red card: Boëtius 62'

Lino Tempelmann's third goal in four league games proved decisive in Braunschweig where the hosts saw off Darmstadt to pull themselves out of the bottom three. It was a case of cometh the hour, cometh the man as Tempelmann popped up to break the deadlock on 60 minutes. Things immediately went from bad to worse for the visitors, with Jean-Paul Boëtius - making his first start for the club - given his marching orders after picking up a second yellow card. There was no way back from there for Darmstadt as the hosts sealed all three points.