Eintracht Braunschweig's push for promotion play-off continues as the win puts them within five points of FC Kaiserslautern thanks to Zuck and Hochscheidt's goals.

It took Braunschweig no less than five minutes to get the break-through. It followed a great spell of play from the hosts. Hendrick Zuck was free in the six yard box, Jan Hochscheidt passed along the box and Zuck was waiting and he got a stroke of luck with his goal, as he fired his shot Eicher got a toe to the ball and it crashed into the net to give Braunschweig the lead.

Braunschweig kept piling on the pressure on 1860, Nik Omladic tried his luck from a very tight angle but could only force a save from Vitus Eicher. Hochscheidt saw his speculative thirty yard free kick saved by Eicher who saw the ball uneasily bounce into his grasp.

1860 pressed for an equaliser but they could only salvage half chances, Krisztian Simon fired goal wards but he didn’t quite catch and skied his shot following some brilliant build up play from the visitors. Ten minutes before the break, Korbinian Vollmann couldn’t quite keep his shot down following great play from 1860, led by Gary Kagelmacher but Vollmann squandered their chance following great play. Minutes later, 1860 had a golden opportunity to make it 1-1, the initial shot was blocked but the ricochet took it into the Braunschweig six yard box, Rodri headed down to his feet where he let off a first time shot but this time he was denied by the right foot of Rafal Gikiewicz.

The final chance of the half came from the Braunschweig skipper, who was free at the back post following Benjamin Kessel’s cross. Rather than using his head, Reichel opted to side foot his effort from six yarss out but he failed to get a shot on target. At half time Braunschweig went in 1-0 up..

The host started the second half as they did the first. Just two minutes after the restart Braunschweig doubled their lead. Harvard Nielsen picked out Hochscheidt who took one touch and picked out the bottom corner superbly to fire Braunschweig into a two-nil lead.  Four minutes later, it could’ve been three and they could’ve have had a better chance, firstly Zuck found Nielsen whos first touch was brilliant and he took his shot on the half volley but Eicher saved brilliantly then Zuck picked out Nielsen again who was one-on-one with Eicher and skied his shot but luckily for his pride he was offside.

Following the second goal, a flurry of chances came for Braunschweig, Nik Omladic’s first shot was blocked then Simon found Vollmann but his shot from outside the box was always rising as soon as it left his foot.

However, 1860 were still pushing for the consolation goal and possibly a chance to salvage a point. The 24-year old Spaniard Rodri tried his luck from outside the box but it is easily saved and held by Gikiewicz. With just over twenty-minutes to play, Dominik Stahl had a free run into the penalty box but he got too much under the ball and sent his effort sailing over the Braunschweig bar.

Braunschweig’s Saulo Decarli saw his shot superbly kept out after he picked out the bottom left corner and his strike looked destined to make it 3-0. 

1860 had a handful of shots nearing the close of the game but they couldn't quite test the Braunschweig goal, they had at least four shots blocked in the closing minutes.