FC Schalke 04 turns lot against Regensburg and is back

Football second division Schalke 04 has at least praised in the race around the Bundesliga return to the ascent zone.

The royal blue after the winter break, the pursuit duel won with Jahn Regensburg despite a break residue by a performance increase at the beginning of the final phase 2: 1 (0: 1) and advanced by their second success one after the other into the top group. Regensburg, on the other hand, can hardly last after his second game in a row without victory, still with the leading teams.

Andreas Albers had taken the guests with his third goal of the season (18th). But Simon Terodde (64.) With his 15th goal of the season and Malick Thiaw (73.), the encounter turned the match in favor of the long driving-acting seats.

"It was not easy to turn the game," Torjäger Terodde said after the final whistle at the "Sky" microph1. The 33-year-old did not escape the defects in the presentation of his team in the first section: "We have to talk about the first half."

At the same time Schalke also had bad luck. A free kick of the Dutchman Thomas Ouwejan from the right attack side sailed over the Regensburg defense and hit only the lath of the Jahn-Gate.

Shortly thereafter, Albers shocked the scarce with the Regensburg leadership after the hosts had not consistently defended enough ball loss in midfield. Schalke did not find a recipe for a long time against the skilful Southern Germans.

Even after the break, Schalke initially did not necessarily play and would have been able to get rid of residue with a slatted hit of the Regensburg by Carlo Boukhalfa (62nd). First Terodde burst in the team of Dimitrios Grammozis through his third goal in the third game after the turn of the year in series the knots burst, before Thiaw sealed the sixth home win of Gelsenkirchen.