Match Report
4 points and 4 places separated them: Carl Zeiss Jena 5th with 13, Rot-Weiß Erfurt 1st with 17. Per game in the league, Carl Zeiss Jena were scoring 1.43 and conceding 0.71, Rot-Weiß Erfurt 3.29 and 0.71, against a competition average of 1.53 goals per team per game.
The head-to-head ledger counts 14 games: 6 Carl Zeiss Jena wins, 7 for Rot-Weiß Erfurt, 1 draw, at 2.93 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 71% of the meetings. The fixture leans high-scoring: 64% of meetings brought at least three goals. The recent trend is more open — 4 goals per game over the last five meetings versus 2.93 all-time.
P. Wien took charge of the match — our records show 29 games refereed with an average of 2.0 yellow cards per game. The match was played at Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld (capacity 15,500). Carl Zeiss Jena led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 1-2 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Carl Zeiss Jena: Kevin Lankford (31') · Rot-Weiß Erfurt: Hinata Gonda (50'), Romarjo Hajrulla (75')