Hertha stay unbeaten after nine games, while Kaiserslautern win 1–0 at Nuremberg to take third place. The bottom six teams finish the round level on eight points.
Hertha Berlin extended their lead in Bundesliga 2 with a 1–0 win over Arminia Bielefeld, keeping their unbeaten start intact after nine league games. Kaiserslautern finished matchday 9 in third place after winning 1–0 at Nuremberg, taking advantage of draws for Wolfsburg and Heidenheim.
Hertha entered the match as league leaders. Josip Brekalo settled the contest with a penalty in the third minute of stoppage time: his fifth goal of the season ended Bielefeld’s three-game unbeaten run.
| Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|
| Hertha Berlin | 1–0 | Arminia Bielefeld |
| Bochum | 1–1 | Wolfsburg |
| Heidenheim | 1–1 | Energie Cottbus |
| Magdeburg | 6–1 | Karlsruhe |
| Darmstadt | 0–0 | St. Pauli |
| Nuremberg | 0–1 | Kaiserslautern |
| Holstein Kiel | 3–0 | Dynamo Dresden |
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| Eintracht Braunschweig | 2–0 | Hannover |
| Osnabrück | 3–0 | Greuther Fürth |
Erencan Yardımcı scored the only goal at Nuremberg with a guided header in the 58th minute. Kaiserslautern controlled the opening exchanges before the hosts began creating chances of their own. Neither side scored before the break, but Yardımcı’s header secured the visitors’ three points and move into the top three.
Wolfsburg led at Bochum through Fabian Reese’s second-minute volley before Sean Klaiber equalised in the 63rd minute. Kento Shiogai’s potential stoppage-time winner was disallowed for handball.
Heidenheim missed a chance to enter the top three despite having 32 attempts on goal against promoted Energie Cottbus—the most by a Bundesliga 2 team this season. Cottbus led before half-time; Heidenheim equalised shortly after the restart but could not find a winner.
Magdeburg followed their defeat against Dynamo Dresden with a 6–1 win over Karlsruhe. Mateusz Żukowski scored the opening two goals from penalties in the 39th and 51st minutes, and Magdeburg scored five times in the second half. Karlsruhe had won their preceding league game 4–0 against Darmstadt.
Darmstadt’s goalless draw with St. Pauli produced few clear chances. It was St. Pauli’s sixth draw in their opening nine league games.
Holstein Kiel earned their first league win of the season by beating Dynamo Dresden 3–0 at home. Giorgi Kvilitaia scored in the ninth minute on his first second-tier start. With Kiel still only one goal ahead, goalkeeper Timon Weiner saved Niklas Hauptmann’s second-half penalty to deny Dresden an equaliser. Jonas Therkelsen scored in the 73rd minute and Phil Harres added a third in the 85th, lifting Kiel above Dresden in the table.
Eintracht Braunschweig’s 2–0 win over Hannover was their third league victory of the season and left Hannover in the bottom three. Max Marie scored from a rebound in the 17th minute, while Yann Sturm settled the match with a low finish in the second minute of stoppage time.
Osnabrück moved into the top half by beating Greuther Fürth 3–0. On his first start since February 2023, Daniel Kofi Kyereh scored the opener from Robin Meißner’s pass, then set up Meißner to score 101 seconds later. Substitute Ismail Badjie completed the scoring in the 75th minute.
The completed round leaves all six teams in positions 13 to 18 level on eight points.
The appeal tribunal removed an additional suspended spectator ban, but each club must still play its next home Scottish Cup tie without fans and pay the visiting side £100,000.
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Ben Duckett’s career-best 167 and Liam Dawson’s four wickets give England a consolation win in Lahore, with Sri Lanka already through to the final against Pakistan.
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