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On a late Friday evening in the German "Bundesliga" championship, one of the matches of the 13th round was played. The league newcomer and one of the outsiders, the "Bochum" club, showed beautiful football in front of their fans and defeated the Frankfurt "Eintracht" team, which was positioned in the middle of the tournament table, with a score of 4-3.
"Bochum" 4 - 3 "Eintracht" 1‘ [0 - 1] Albert Streit 5‘ [0 - 2] Albert Streit 29‘ [1 - 2] Zvjezdan Misimovic (11m.) 33‘ [2 - 2] Marcel Maltritz 36‘ [3 - 2] Heiko Butscher 46‘ [4 - 2] Theofanis Gekas 56‘ [4 - 3] Ioannis Amanatidis
In the 28th minute, Aleksander Vasovski ("Eintracht") was sent off the field.
It seems that the "Bochum" players started the match a bit sluggishly and had to pay dearly for it. Just 45 seconds into the game, the visitors were led forward by Albert Streit with a precise penalty kick. After the shock, the home team failed to recover quickly and had to retrieve the ball from their own net for the second time after just four minutes, as A. Streit scored again after Alexander Meier's pass.
However, the turning point of the match came in the 28th minute when the referee, without hesitation, sent off "Eintracht" defender Aleksandr Vasovski for rough play in the penalty area against "Bochum" forward Theofanis Gekas and awarded a penalty kick. Zvjezdan Misimovic, the host team player, successfully converted the penalty, beating the visitors' goalkeeper Okka Nikolov.
Unable to cope with the expulsion of their teammate, the "Eintracht" players conceded another goal after four minutes. It was scored by Marcel Maltritz. The visitors, having conceded two goals in less than 10 minutes, were disappointed once again as Heiko Butscher put "Bochum" ahead in the 36th minute.
At the start of the second half, just a minute in, the hosts doubled their lead - one of the team's leaders, T. Gekas, scored his fourth goal in these matches with individual effort, beating O. Nikolov once again. But that was not all. The "Eintracht" team did not give up and managed to soften the result ten minutes later. In the 56th minute, Ioannis Amanatidis beat "Bochum" goalkeeper Peter Skov-Jensen.
Despite having plenty of time, the visitors could not level the score. After this dramatic victory, the "Bochum" team climbed from 17th to 15th place, while the "Eintracht" did not lose anything and continues in 10th place.
On Saturday, the league leader "Stuttgart" will visit Munich to face the 4th-placed "Bayern" club, while the second-placed "Werder" from Bremen will face Aacheno "Alemannia" away.
