Matchday Compact: All Information for the Heidenheim game

The newcomer duel on the Heidenheimer Schlossberg began with good chances for the guests from southern Hesse. After just five minutes, Aaron Seydel headed the ball from a cross from Emir Karic and put the ball past the goal. As the game progressed, the game became fairly even with opportunities on both sides. Tim Skarke tried after 19 minutes from just outside the penalty area, but aimed too high. On the other side, Jan-Niklas Beste also tried from a distance but Schuhen could save in the 20th minute.

Three minutes before the half-time whistle, the Heidenheimers took advantage of a set piece and Schöppner gave the home team the lead with a header. An unfortunate deficit at the break, as the Lilies had actually had slight advantages up until then.

After the break, the Lilies had a good opportunity to equalise early on: Vilhelmsson turned sharply around his opponent, shot straight away and forced the keeper to make a save with 49 minutes played. Two minutes later, Pfeiffer prevailed in the header duel, but did not put enough force behind the ball. Then the Darmstadt team finally rewarded themselves for their effort after 52 minutes: Skarke took a long Holland ball out of the air and scored precisely to level. After an hour it was Lennard Maloney who directed a Skarke cross into his own net and thus steered the Lilies onto the apparent path to victory.

But the hosts equalised with their first goal in the second half: Mainka headed in from a corner to make it 2-2 on 69 minutes. Just 120 seconds later, Mainka gave the lead to FCH , again from a corner. In the remaining time, the Lilies could no longer find any means against the Heidenheim defence and had to narrowly admit defeat.

“We also made it difficult for the opponents. That’s why we’re where we are now and still have the best prospects of being able to play in the Bundesliga next season,“ said Heidenheim coach Frank Schmidt, summing up FCH’s situation before the 31st matchday. Nevertheless, the 50-year-old warns about the Lilies: “It will be an emotional game, a game where you cannot give in.” One thing is clear, according to the Heidenheim coach, the SVD “will give everything” for the three points on Sunday to keep in southern Hesse.

In cloudy conditions at the Böllenfalltor, the temperature climbs to a maximum of 18 degrees Celsius in the afternoon, and at the start of the game it should be a maximum of 15 degrees Celsius. The probability of precipitation is 20 percent, after the game the probability increases to 50 percent.

If you are not at the stadium on Sunday, you can watch the duel with FC Heidenheim live on DAZN. The streaming service starts broadcasting at 7pm, kick-off is at 7:30pm. Tom Kirsten will be the commentator for the 90 minutes, and Sascha Bigalke will be the expert. The moderator is David Ploch, the reporter at Böllenfalltor will be Mario Rieker.

The game will also be shown live on Sky Sports Mix in the UK.

Matchday! And so back into matchday mode. You can of course follow the duel between the Lilies and 1. FC Heidenheim again on Sunday afternoon in the Software AG Matchcenter on our homepage. Just click on the orange button! There we provide you with lots of live data about the game. You can also be there live with our live ticker.

All followers of the Lilies can follow the game over on our Liveticker as well as listening on our Fanradio. Current pictures and highlights from the game are also included on Facebook und Twitter. You can get even more live photos on Instagram.