The 3.Liga now goes into winter-break until the end-of January.
A masterly performance by leaders Osnabrück in Offenbach, ripping the Kickers to shreds. VfL came out and dominated, and the home side was fortunate the match wasn’t over by half time. The only positive for the Kickers is that lousy weather meant that few fans showed up, as they would have been outraged.
Karlsruhe won their 8th in a row in a local mini-derby; I’m sure they’d rather not be playing the B-team, but their impovement in form has been rewarded by some decent fan support as they look for a quick return to the 2.Liga.
A hat-trick by Marco Königs was enough for Preußen Münster to keep pace at the top and send Darmstadt into despair. The match was lousy in the 1st half, but it looked like the guests might escape into halftime even, but Königs escaped from his marker and blasted home. Darmstadt had a decent chance to equalize just before half, but of course blew it. In the 2nd period Preussen raised their game and it was all over.
The only other match of consequence was Erfurt’s relegation thriller with Halle, decided in injury time, a nice Xmas present for RWE.
Chemnitzer FC - Wacker Burghausen 2:1 (2:0) 3,300 Kickers Offenbach - VfL Osnabrück 1:5 (1:2) 4,703 Karlsruher SC - VfB Stuttgart II 3:1 (1:1) 13,311 Rot-Weiß Erfurt - Hallescher FC 2:1 (0:0) 4,984 Stuttgarter Kickers - 1. FC Heidenheim 0:2 (0:1) 3,250 Preußen Münster - SV Darmstadt 98 3:0 (1:0) 6,102 SpVgg Unterhaching - SV Wehen Wiesbaden canceled 1. FC Saarbrücken - Arminia Bielefeld canceled SV Babelsberg 03 - Hansa Rostock canceled Borussia Dortmund II - Alemannia Aachen canceled 1 VfL Osnabrück 22 14 5 3 36:14 +22 47 2 Karlsruher SC (A) 22 12 7 3 39:14 +25 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Preußen Münster 22 12 7 3 38:17 +21 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Arminia Bielefeld 21 11 6 4 33:21 +12 39 5 SpVgg Unterhaching 21 11 6 4 36:26 +10 39 6 1. FC Heidenheim 21 10 4 7 36:31 +5 34 7 Chemnitzer FC 22 8 6 8 32:29 +3 30 8 VfB Stuttgart II 21 8 5 8 27:25 +2 29 9 Wacker Burghausen 21 9 2 10 27:30 -3 29 10 Hansa Rostock (A) 21 8 5 8 22:27 -5 29 11 Kickers Offenbach 21 7 5 9 30:29 +1 26 12 1. FC Saarbrücken 21 7 4 10 28:35 -7 25 13 SV Babelsberg 03 20 6 5 9 17:26 -9 23 14 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 20 3 13 4 26:29 -3 22 15 Rot-Weiß Erfurt 21 5 7 9 25:37 -12 22 16 Hallescher FC (N) 22 5 6 11 18:32 -14 21 17 Stuttgarter Kickers (N) 21 5 5 11 21:25 -4 20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Alemannia Aachen (A) 20 4 7 9 20:30 -10 19 19 Borussia Dortmund II (N) 21 4 6 11 19:38 -19 18 20 SV Darmstadt 98 21 3 7 11 18:33 -15 16 A = Absteiger just Relegated N = Neuling just promoted 1st line: Promotion to 2.Liga 2nd line: Promotion Playoff with 2.Liga 16th place 3rd line: Relegation to Regionalliga Alemannia Aachen basically relegated due to pending insolvency.