The trophy is where the magic happens, and the German trophy proved it last night (Tuesday) when the little Essen, from the fourth league in the country, came back from behind to 1: 2 in overtime, and ousted Bayer Leverkusen from Peter Boss.
After 0: 0 in 90 minutes, Leon Bailey did score in the 105th minute, but Ogzen Kafkir and Simon Engelman set up a reversal and caused a sensation. “I’m angry and disappointed we did not win,” he said boss At the end. “We had opportunities and that’s our problem at the moment, we are not taking advantage of them. If you lead 0-1 in extra time, with experience like ours, we must not let it slip. Essen has done a great job, but it must never happen to us again.”
For Essen, this is the sixth time in its history that it has reached the quarter-finals of the Cup, and the first in 27 years, when the last time it happened was in 1993/94, when it also reached the final and lost to Werder Bremen.
The one who managed to avoid a splash was Borussia Dortmund, who admittedly went up to 0: 2 in just 16 minutes over Federburn, but the team from the center of the second league managed to equalize, including a penalty by Prince-Aussie Owso in the 98th minute. Luckily for Edin Terezic, Arling Holland was there to decide in overtime.
“This is a turning point that could completely change the game,” Terzic said of the late 2-2. “Obviously we did not like the one that was tense at the end,” on a perfect balance after 26 meetings against a lower league team, she was never a victim Of splash and always rose to the next level.
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