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Enzo Millot (r.) scored his fourth goal of the season

Photo: Marijan Murat / dpa

After four wins in a row in the Bundesliga, VfB Stuttgart has to be content with a 1-1 (0-0) draw against 1. FC Köln.

1. FC Union Berlin also drew 2:2 (2:1) with 1. FC Heidenheim.

Werder Bremen and Darmstadt 98 also drew 1:1 (1:1).

Over 72 percent possession of the ball, three good chances by Woo-yeong Jeong (13th/14th minute) and Serhou Guirassy (17th) in the first 17 minutes and still no goal: The third-best offensive in the league from Stuttgart took place in the first half only a few solutions against compactly defending Cologne.

The Stuttgart team only managed this better in the second half of the game - and thus took the lead.

From their own half, the team combined the ball through Christian Führich, Hiroki Ito and Führich again to Enzo Millot, who only had to push in from six meters (53').

With Cologne's first chance of the game, the league's weakest offensive team immediately equalized.

After a corner, Stuttgart didn't regroup quickly enough, which Eric Martel took advantage of to make it 1-1 (62').

Stuttgart then pushed for another lead, but Millot was denied by Cologne keeper Marvin Schwäbe (68').

Cologne also had chances to make it 2-1, but Martel (75th) and Sargis Adamyan (80th) were not consistent enough.

The guests from Heidenheim put Union under pressure right at the start of the game.

Keeper Frederik Rönnow was able to parry a long-range shot from Eren Dinkçi, but two minutes later he had to admit defeat: Nikola Dovedan gave Heidenheim an early 1-0 lead and scored the fastest Heidenheim goal in Heidenheim's short Bundesliga history (3rd).

After just under a quarter of an hour, Union got into the game better and the compact Heidenheimers relied on the counterattack.

Nenad Bjelica's team gradually found solutions for the solid Heidenheim defense and turned the game around within a few minutes: Danilho Doekh's header missed the goal by a few centimeters in the 33rd minute.

Ten minutes later, Robin Gosens scored his first goal for Union and made it 1-1 (44th).

András Schäfer followed up shortly afterwards and gave Union a 2-1 lead (45th +2).

But Heidenheim didn't give up and was able to equalize with a goal from Jan-Niklas Beste (71st minute).

Although both teams pushed for victory, no more goals were scored.

Heidenheim is unbeaten for the fifth away game in a row, but both teams continue to stagnate in the middle of the table.

Werder Bremen were unbeaten for eight games in a row before the game against bottom-placed Darmstadt 98 and yet initially it was only the guests who scored goals.

Christoph Zimmermann slipped the ball into his own goal during a rescue operation (8th).

Bremen's Justin Njinmah and Romano Schmid repeatedly caused danger from the flanks (2nd, 26th, 28th), but the next goal was once again scored by a player from Darmstadt.

After winning the ball, Matthias Bader shifted the game to the left side, where Julian Justvan shot from 21 meters.

His shot was deflected twice more (33').

Both teams refused to settle for a point in the second half.

Marvin Mehlem (47th) and Tim Skarke (offside goal/78th) had the best chances for Darmstadt, Njinmah (60th) and Nick Woltemade (83rd) failed to make it 2-1 for Bremen.

Then it looked like Darmstadt's first success in five months, a goal from Skarke in the last minute was revoked due to handball after video evidence.

Darmstadt scored its 13th point, but remains in last place.

Bremen remains in seventh place.

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