Freiburg has detention: Gladbach and Bielefeld with a goal festival in the DFB Cup

Gladbach confidently mastered the first round of the DFB Cup.

Freiburg has detention: Gladbach and Bielefeld with a goal festival in the DFB Cup

Gladbach confidently mastered the first round of the DFB Cup. Bundesliga club Augsburg are also not naked. On the other hand, Freiburg and Hoffenheim cannot create clear conditions in the regular season. Both must now tremble.

Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach has reached the second round of the cup for the ninth time in a row. The team of the new coach Daniel Farke won the upper division club SV Oberachern in Freiburg's Dreisamstadion confidently and easily with 9:1 (6:0).

Marcus Thuram with a hat trick (3'/22'/36'), Jonas Hofmann (37'/45' 2) ​​and Rami Bensebaini (45') made things clear before the break. Captain Lars Stindl (47th) immediately after the break, Joseph Scally (59th) and Florian Neuhaus (78th) then increased in front of 15,000 spectators. Nico Huber scored the consolation goal for Oberachern (61st).

The game goes into overtime.

Made-to-measure debut for Enrico Maaßen: The new coach of FC Augsburg celebrated a lackluster 4-0 (1-0) win at Oberliga club Blau-Weiss Lohne on his competitive debut.

Arne Maier with a clever free kick (51st) and the jokers Fredrik Jensen (69th), Florian Niederlechner (81st) and Maurice Malone (89th) shot the Bundesliga team, which had not been convincing for a long time, into the third time in a row second round. FCA still have to improve before the start of the season against SC Freiburg on Saturday.

Second division football club Hannover 96 defied the quarrels about the separation from managing director Martin Kind and at least ensured clear conditions in the DFB Cup. The Lower Saxony won 3-0 (2-0) at Oberliga club TSV Schott Mainz, also thanks to the active help of the hosts, and reached the second round for the third time in a row.

An own goal from Dominik Ahlbach (36') and a sweep from Maximilian Beier (42') made things clear at the break in the Bruchweg Stadium. In the second round, last season's quarter-finalists brought the win against the cup debutants to the finish without any problems, Julius Haas (50th) scored another own goal.

Arminia Bielefeld made it into the second round of the DFB Cup with their first win under new coach Uli Forte. After two league defeats at the start, the Bundesliga relegated team won its first round game at Palatinate Oberliga club FV Engers 7-1 (2-0). Bielefeld has not survived the second round since 2016.

Janni Serra (9') and Fabian Klos (24') each scored from corners in the Oberwerth stadium in Koblenz that Robin Hack had brought in from the left. The fifth division team from Neuwied defended themselves in front of 3558 spectators, but did not keep up in terms of play. After Klos' second goal (50th), the outsider managed to score a consolation goal through Jonathan Kap (54th). Masaya Okugawa (57'), Serra again (71'), Brian Lasme (86') and Hack (90') scored for Bielefeld.

Both teams have to go into overtime.