Two in eight minutes from Greuther Fürth in surprise win against Augsburg | OneFootball

FC Augsburg faced SpVgg Greuther Fürth in the town of Schwabmünchen, approximately a half-hour south of the WWK-Arena.

Augsburg entered this match seventh in the Bundesliga, with a 1-0-1 record after defeating SC Freiburg and putting up a fight against FC Bayern München. As for Fürth, they are coming off a high-scoring thriller against 1. FC Magdeburg in which they emerged 5-4 victors after a Marco John goal in the eighth minute of second half stoppage time; they are 2-0-2 in their 2. Bundesliga campaign, tenth in the current table.

Philipp Tietz had the only notable chance for the hosts in the first half, powering a shot off the bar following a cross into the box courtesy of Yusuf Kabadayı. The rest were from the visitors, with Nediljko Labrović denying Omar Sillah on two occasions; Sillah also managed to hit the goalpost in the twenty-fourth minute.

The 22-year-old forward would eventually find the back of the net in the fifty-fourth minute, darting into the left side of the Augsburg penalty area before taking a left-footed shot that rolled into the bottom-right corner. The visitors would double their lead within the next ten minutes, as Felix Higl would curl an attempt into the top-left corner from the right edge of the box.

Hendrik Hofgärtner would cut the deficit back to one in the seventy-sixth minute, running into the right side of the Fürth penalty area and getting on the end of a Mads Pedersen cross before tapping the ball past Sebastian Jung, who tried to cut down the angle.

Fürth quickly shut down any momentum that Augsburg would have had from that goal, and almost added two more of their own in the final five minutes of the 90; eventually, the final whistle went, as the second-tier side emerged victorious by two to one.