Debutant Misidjan Hits Late Equaliser For Nuremberg

Berlin, Sept 16 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Sep, 2018 ) :Virgil Misidjan celebrated a perfect debut for Nuremberg on Sunday, as he scored a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser to secure a 1-1 draw for his side away to Werder Bremen.

Bremen have not lost in four competitive games this season, while Florian Kohfeldt remains unbeaten in 15 home games as head coach, in what is a new club record. Yet Misidjan's late strike left a bitter taste on what had been another successful afternoon.

"We wanted to take our chances better in the second half, but we ended up completely losing control," Bremen midfielder Maximilian Eggestein told Sky. "We sat too deep, and we ran out of energy at the end of the game." Max Kruse missed a golden opportunity to put Bremen ahead on 15 minutes, denied by a desperate block from Georg Margreitter.

Bremen continued to look the more dangerous side, and had a penalty appeal turned down on 25 minutes.

Moments later, Eggestein broke the deadlock in style, rifling the ball into the top corner from the edge of the box.

At half-time, Bremen fans held up a series of banners voicing opposition to far-right politics, including statements such as "refugees welcome" and "no football for fascists".

Back on the field, Eggestein could have added a second on 55 minutes, but skewed his shot wide after finding space on the right flank.

Nuremberg found the net against the run of play just before the hour mark, but Ondrej Petrak's toe-poked equaliser was disallowed - correctly, but bizarrely - for offside.

Mikael Ishak, who had sent in the cross for Petrak, was in an offside position when the ball ricocheted off the back of a team-mate and into his path.

All looked lost for Nuremberg as the clock ticked down in stoppage time, before Misidjan found space on the left and bundled the ball past Jiri Pavlenka at the near post.