Karlsruher SC celebrates the fourth win in a row and settles in the middle of the table. The cushion on the relegation rank is plentiful. In the final phase, newcomer Siwsiwadze makes his debut.
Rostock (dpa / lsw) - From zero to ten in four weeks and thus out of the biggest worries: Karlsruher SC has continued its successful streak in the 2nd Bundesliga and said goodbye to the relegation battle for the time being. The Badeners celebrated their fourth win in a row with the 2-0 (2-0) win at FC Hansa Rostock on Sunday and are now ten points ahead of relegation rank 16. At the beginning of February, after the 1-1 draw at 1. FC Magdeburg, they were with still on par with the third from last in the table according to points.
Marvin Wanitzek (16th minute / penalty kick) and Paul Nebel (25th) scored the goals for KSC in front of 23,500 spectators in the Ostseestadion. The Rostockers conceded their fifth defeat in the sixth game in the second half of the season and are slipping deeper and deeper.
Thanks to the involuntary support of Hansa's central defender Damian Roßbach, Karlsruhe were almost reassuringly ahead after 25 minutes. First, the former KSC professional caused a penalty kick against Mikkel Kaufmann, which Wanitzek converted into his eighth goal of the season. Then Roßbach deflected a shot from Nebel intolerable for his goalkeeper Markus Kolke.
The double whammy unsettled the sporting ailing Hanseatic League even more. If Kolke hadn't reacted brilliantly against Fabian Schleusener in the 41st minute, hopes of a turnaround would have been gone by the break. But it didn't really get any better after the restart. Hansa found almost no means to even begin to endanger the compact guests.
In the final minutes, centre-forward Budu Siwsiwadze, signed from Hungarian club Fehérvár FC in January, made his competitive debut for KSC.
