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01/27 16:11 CST Leipzig settles for a draw as Hoffenheim wins in
weather-delayed Bundesliga games
Leipzig settles for a draw as Hoffenheim wins in weather-delayed Bundesliga
games
By CIARAN FAHEY
AP Sports Writer
BERLIN (AP) --- Martijn Kaars scored a stoppage-time penalty for St. Pauli to
deny Leipzig all three points with a 1-1 draw in their weather-delayed
Bundesliga match on Tuesday.
Leipzig defender David Raum slipped at an inopportune time as he missed the
ball and took down Kaars to concede the spot kick.
Leipzig goalkeeper Pter Gulcsi got his fingers to the ball but couldn't keep
Kaars' well-struck effort out, and the home team celebrated as if it had won.
It was St. Pauli's second consecutive point after the derby draw against
Hamburger SV and it lifted it a point above bottom side Heidenheim with 15
rounds to play.
Leipzig still moved to fourth, the last qualification spot for the lucrative
Champions League, ahead of Stuttgart on goal difference.
Yan Diomande scored midway through the second half for the Red Bull-backed
club, which failed to qualify for any European competition last season.
Also Tuesday, Hoffenheim consolidated third place with a 2-0 win at Werder
Bremen despite finishing with 10 men.
Alexander Prass broke the deadlock with a brilliant strike inside the top right
corner before the break, and Grischa Prmel made it 2-0 early in the second
half just after Hoffenheim had Wouter Burger sent off after a VAR check for a
dangerous challenge on Cameron Puertas.
Hoffenheim has a three-point lead over Leipzig.
Both games Tuesday had been called off earlier this month because of heavy
snowfall, ice and snowdrifts across northern Germany including Hamburg and
Bremen.
Before the matches, all four teams lined up behind banners that said "We
Remember" to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held every year on
Jan. 27. It's the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most
notorious of the Nazi German death camps.
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