🚨 Net in tatters, goals against & red: is THIS the worst start ever? | OneFootball

This is certainly not how FC Magdeburg had imagined it. The club is currently enduring an absolute nightmare start to the new season in Germany’s 2. Bundesliga.

After both clubs only just stayed above the line in the league last season, FCM and Eintracht Braunschweig wanted to do everything better this year. Right now, the Lower Saxony side are doing that very well away from home. Magdeburg, on the other hand, are producing a downright dreadful performance. 

At first, kickoff was delayed because of a damaged goal net. The net had to be patched up provisionally with cable ties.

Fortunately that happened, because it was the very goal Braunschweig charged toward shortly afterwards. It did not take long at all before the net had to prove its sturdiness for the first time. 

In the 15th minute, a simple combination overwhelmed the home defence, and Aaron Opoku finished it off to make it 1-0 for the visitors from Braunschweig. 

Just six minutes later came the next counterattack, and this time Jan Urbich found the net, before repeating the feat again only five minutes later (26'). 

Not even 30 minutes had been played and Magdeburg had already conceded three goals. Incredibly bitter, and an absolute nightmare start to a second-division season in which things were actually supposed to get better. 

And just when it seemed things could hardly get any worse, they somehow did. In fact, doubly so. First, before half-time, Herbert Bockhorn was sent off with a red card for a bad foul and headed straight for the showers (32'). 

And even that was not enough for the home side to make it into the break. Just a few moments before the half-time whistle, Sturm was pulled by the shirt in the penalty area. Play continued, but VAR intervened and Eintracht were awarded a penalty. 

Mehmet Aydin calmly converted low into the bottom-left corner to make it 4 (!!!!)-0. Braunschweig were absolutely dismantling a helpless Magdeburg side. 

The half-time verdict from FCM’s point of view: four goals down, one man fewer, and a shockingly weak performance. 

You could hardly make a worse start to a new season.

Magdeburg did manage a consolation goal shortly after half-time, but just 81 seconds later Braunschweig scored their fifth, and before the hour mark it was already 1-6. 

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