1. FC Magdeburg suffered a setback in the third league game for interim duo Petrik Sander and Pascal Ibold. At VfL Bochum, the team from the city on the Elbe lost 2-0 (0-1) in front of 26,000 spectators. Kjell Wätjen (41') and Gerrit Holtmann (60') scored for VfL, Magdeburg's Falko Michel missed a penalty (81'). FCM remain in 18th place with seven points, three points behind the non-relegation places.
"The injury-related substitution of Tobias Müller disrupted our order a little. You simply can't concede a goal like that, then it's 0-0 going into the break," said Sander on Sky and praised his team: "The boys didn't collapse - if the penalty makes it 2-1, it will certainly be tight again."
Before the game, FCM sporting director Otmar Schork said on Sky that Sander would "definitely stay and the medium-term future will also show how things will continue". FCM dominated the opening quarter of an hour, Bochum only then began to attack - and Farid Alfa-Ruprecht failed to hit the crossbar (17').
