A first half of the season of contrasts lies behind 1. FC Magdeburg. Ahead of the final game at Fortuna Düsseldorf, the Elbe city side are bottom of the Bundesliga 2 home table with just six points and no wins. However, the club has the best away record of all teams with 19 points.
At 1:1 (0:0) against league leaders Paderborn, Philipp Hercher's 57th-minute goal was also not enough to secure a home win because FCM did not defend attentively in one scene and an unfortunate defensive action by goalkeeper Dominik Reimann resulted in a penalty. This was converted by Raphael Obermair (69'), a former Magdeburg player of all people.
"If we could explain that, we would have changed it already. We go into every game the same way, whether at home or away - and away works," said Hercher after the match. However, they played against a "very good opponent" at a high level. "The crux of the matter was simply that we didn't add the 2-0 after going 1-0 up," analyzed the former Lauter player.
