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Kiel (dpa) - Holstein Kiel made the hoped-for jump to second place in the 2nd Bundesliga.
In the first of two catch-up games coming up this week, the Kiel team struggled to win 1-0 (1-0) against Hannover 96 and displaced the previous second Greuther Fürth (58) with 59 points to the relegation rank.
Fin Bartels (44th minute) scored the goal of the sixth home win in a row for Holstein, which Jahn Regensburg welcomes on Thursday (3.30 p.m. / Sky) in the Holstein Stadium.
Three days after the glamorous 4-0 win over FC St. Pauli, the home side found it surprisingly difficult in the 50th championship duel with Lower Saxony.
The guests, who sometimes acted with a five-man defensive chain, consistently disrupted the build-up game and thus prevented the dreaded Kiel combination football.
So it took until shortly before half-time before the completely free-standing Bartels got his ninth goal of the season after Fabian Reese's measured cross.
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Even after the change, the Kielers, to whom the opening goal did not give a tailwind, could not trump as last.
Hanover even took the initiative, but was still barely able to earn clear opportunities for a bullet.
So it remained exciting in the moderate game thanks to the tight score.
Finn Porath (89th) missed the decision, but in the end Kiel cheered, which survived the seven-minute stoppage time with luck and skill.
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