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Mönchengladbach (dpa) - The Bundesliga year comes to a disappointing end for Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Coach Marco Rose's team suffered their first home defeat of the season on Saturday in a 1: 2 (1: 0) against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
In addition, attacker Marcus Thuram threatens a longer suspension.
The French international spat in Stefan Posch's face and saw the red card (79th minute).
One day after his contract extension, captain Lars Stindl had given Borussia the lead with a penalty kick (34th).
Andrej Kramaric equalized for the guests (75th), in the closing stages Ryan Sessegnon Hoffenheim shot to victory (85th).
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For the team of coach Sebastian Hoeneß it was the first win against Gladbach in three and a half years.
With 15 points, Hoffenheim ended the year in the middle of the table.
Gladbach, on the other hand, lags behind the European Cup with 18 points.
Borussia looked tired and did not play as dominantly as they usually do in home games for a long time.
Both teams met with a similar tactical orientation and pressed up as usual.
Little developed out of the game at first.
The best opportunities were two direct free kicks, which Stindl for Gladbach (14th) and Robert Skov for Hoffenheim (18th) only just missed.
An unnecessary foul by the guests was also necessary for the leadership of Borussia.
Dennis Geiger went into the duel with Thuram in an uncritical position in his own penalty area.
As usual, Captain Stindl converted the penalty that was due.
For the 32-year-old ex-international, it was the sixth consecutive penalty conversion and the fourth this season.
This means that the best goalscorer in Gladbach this season is currently the most accurate Bundesliga player from the point.
Stindl also helped his team to expand the series of goals in their own stadium: The Gladbach team now met in the 24th home game in a row.
They were last more successful in the 1983/1984 season.
At that time there were 30 home games with goals.
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More goals could have been added in the first half, but Breel Embolo in particular had another unlucky day this time.
Two minutes after the lead, the Swiss ran up to TSG goalkeeper Oliver Baumann after a dream pass from Florian Neuhaus and went miserably by several meters.
Guest coach Hoeneß reacted to the break and took the unfortunate violinist off the field.
Hoffenheim became more offensive, which resulted in spaces for the Gladbachers to counter, but they did not use them.
When the strength of the recently badly stressed Gladbach team waned, Hoffenheim did not come to an undeserved compensation.
Striker Kramaric was way too free on his eighth goal of the season.
After Thuram's dropout shortly afterwards, the game then completely fell.
Sessegnon shot the majority of the guests to victory.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 201219-99-755809 / 2
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