👀 Technical glitch in Cottbus: Hannover 96 relive déjà vu | OneFootball

Fans who have been following Hannover 96 and/or Energie Cottbus for quite a while may currently be experiencing something of a déjà vu.

Before kick-off in the first second-division match of the season for both clubs, the start was delayed by several minutes. The reason: the technology wasn’t working properly, and the referee communication system had failed.

The players who were on the pitch for 96 more than 30 years ago, meanwhile, are all too familiar with technical problems away at Cottbus.

In 1997, Hannover traveled to Energie Cottbus for the second leg of the promotion playoff to the 2. Bundesliga. With the score at 1-1 after an hour, there were technical problems again, though of a far more serious kind: the lights went out, and it stayed dark for twelve minutes. The circumstances remain unclear to this day. When the floodlights came back on, Cottbus took control of the match and ultimately won promotion.

The technical problems with the referee communication system this time were nowhere near as dramatic as that blackout, but shortly afterward the newly promoted third-division side was once again on the front foot today: in the 14th minute, Energie took the lead through a deflected free kick from Tolcay Cigerci.

In the 28th minute, Neubauer equalized for the Lower Saxony side.

Twenty minutes from time, the promoted team took the lead again from the penalty spot, and shortly afterward Cottbus even made it 3-1.

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