Osnabrück beat Greuther Fürth 3:0 as Kyereh returns to the starting XI

Two goals in 101 seconds

VfL Osnabrück beat SpVgg Greuther Fürth 3:0 (2:0) on Sunday, 25 October, in the 2. Bundesliga, in front of 15,741 spectators at a sold-out Stadion an der Bremer Brücke. The home side needed almost half an hour to get going, but then struck twice before the break. Daniel Kofi Kyereh opened the scoring in the 37th minute after Fürth lost the ball in midfield and Robin Meißner had played him through. Only 101 seconds later Meißner scored the second goal (39th), after Bjarke Jacobsen won the ball from Paul Will near the Fürth penalty area and Kyereh laid it across to him. Fürth's defence was caught out on both goals, and Will's error came just before the second.

Fürth struggle to create chances

Fürth were quiet for long spells of the first half, and their best early effort came in the 15th minute, when a direct corner from Pohlmann hit the post. After the break Kyereh was dangerous again: he forced a save from Florian Hellstern within the first minute of the second half and then hit the crossbar in the 48th minute with a volley after a corner. Hellstern kept the score down in the 77th minute by parrying a shot from Bernd Riesselmann. Late on, a foot from the Fürth goalkeeper prevented a fourth goal after Will deflected the ball dangerously towards his own goal. Ismail Badjie made it 3:0 in the 75th minute, after a further individual error by the substitute Mika Wallentowitz, who was pressed and blocked, and Badjie then pushed the ball through Hellstern's legs.

Reactions and line-up changes

Felix Klaus called the performance appalling in an ARD interview and said the team had been having a black day.

“It was far too little from us in every respect.”

Klaus added that Fürth could even have lost 4:0 or 5:0, and he said the team had made too many mistakes and given Osnabrück simple counter-attacking chances. Timo Schultz changed his attack after the 1:2 defeat at Arminia Bielefeld, starting Kyereh in place of Badjie. It was Kyereh's first start since February 2023, when he was still at SC Freiburg in the Bundesliga, after he had missed the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons with a cruciate ligament tear and a knee operation among other injuries. The 30-year-old was replaced in the 67th minute to standing ovations from the Osnabrück supporters.

Table position and next match

The win was Osnabrück's first after four winless matches in a row, and it lifted the club to eighth place in the table. Fürth had beaten Eintracht Braunschweig 2:0 a week earlier, but Heiko Vogel made two changes to his starting line-up for this game. Lukas Reich was missing with muscle problems and Jannik Dehm came into the right-back position, while Jordan Siebatcheu started ahead of Omar Sillah. Osnabrück's next match is at VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday, 31 October, at 13:00, with live coverage on the NDR Livecenter.