1. FC Magdeburg are on the verge of securing their place in the 2nd Bundesliga. The Elbe city team won 3:1 (2:0) at Holstein Kiel in front of 14,678 spectators. Jean Hugonet (40), Dariusz Stalmach (45 + 2) and Baris Atik (55) scored for FCM, Adrian Kapralik (90 + 2) for Kiel. With 39 points, the Elbe club are in twelfth place in the table, have avoided direct relegation and could celebrate their final relegation on the couch on Sunday.
"I said to the substitutes: I'll try it straight away. I don't think they believed me," said Atik about his directly converted corner. "I take my hat off to my team because it's not a matter of course to perform like that in such a situation, score goals like that and control the game like that," praised coach Petrik Sander.