Gross defensive mistakes, no points, no break: Arminia Bielefeld is still waiting for the first win of the season in the Bundesliga even after the tenth attempt.
The team of coach Frank Kramer missed the revenge for the cup on Tuesday and also lost in the league against Mainz 05 deservedly 1: 2.
Bielefeld remain in relegation rank 17, while Mainz jump to fifth place in the Europa League after their third competitive game win in a row.
Jae-sung Lee scored with his first Bundesliga goal to take the lead for Mainz, Jacob Laursen equalized before the break for Arminia, who lost 3-2 after extra time at Mainz four days ago.
Jonathan Burkardt scored in front of 19,477 spectators to win for the guests.
"It is important to show a now-even more mentality," Kramer had said after the cup failure - and swapped his eleven compared to the cup game to five positions.
Among other things, storm tank Fabian Klos was back in the starting line-up after almost four weeks.
FSV coach Bo Svensson trusted his victorious team on Tuesday.
And the people of Bielefeld immediately showed that they had something to do well.
Bryan Lasme prevailed against two opponents, but failed with his graduation due to FSV keeper Robin Zentner.
Mainz replied promptly, but Karim Onisiwo put his header free-standing to the left.
As a result, the game flattened out a bit, and both teams found it very difficult to establish an orderly build-up game.
More and more game control
Mainz took control of the game more and more and was rewarded: Onisiwo prevailed on the right, failed with his qualification to Stefan Ortega-Moreno, but Lee was spot on and took the lead from a few meters.
Only a little later, Onisiwo had the great opportunity to increase with a low shot from eight meters, but he forgave miserably (35th).
The DSC defense was on the roll, but Mainz simply did not get the ball into the goal and was punished: After a Mainz double chance, the counterattack ran, at the end of which the Dane Laursen hit from 15 meters to surprisingly equalize.
After the break, the Mainz team was still on the trigger and kept settling deep in the Bielefeld half.
However, degrees from Jean Paul Boetius (49th) and David Nemeth (57th) did not lead to success, Burkardt did better a little later.