FC Augsburg got back to winning ways on Wednesday night at Arminia Bielefeld. After five matches without a victory, Heiko Herrlich’s side won 1-0 thanks to a late Jeffrey Gouweleeuw goal.

Three days after the 2-2 draw to FC Schalke 04, Heiko Herrlich made three changes. Reece Oxford got his first start of the season in defence, with Marco Richter and Michael Gregoritsch also coming into the side after combining for the last-ditch equaliser against Schalke. Robert Gumny and Ruben Vargas were given a rest, while Florian Niederlechner was banned, having seen two yellows on Sunday.

Three days after the 2-2 draw to FC Schalke 04, Heiko Herrlich made three changes. Reece Oxford got his first start of the season in defence, with Marco Richter and Michael Gregoritsch also coming into the side after combining for the last-ditch equaliser against Schalke. Robert Gumny and Ruben Vargas were givFCA began with a 3-5-2 formation – Oxford, Gouweleeuw and Uduoukhai made up the back three and Raphael Framberger and Daniel Caligiuri were deployed as the wing backs. It took less than two minutes for Augsburg’s first shot: Cedric Brunner blocked an effort by Marco Richter, while Rafał Gikiewicz held a Ritsu Doan effort at the other end (6’). en a rest, while Florian Niederlechner was banned, having seen two yellows on Sunday.

Bielefeld were the more dangerous side in the first half and had some promising moments, although they lacked that cutting edge in the final third. Uduokhai blocked a shot from Sven Schipplock at the last moment after some good work by Doan (24’). The Japanese attacker then missed with a curler himself (30’). FCA were struggling to create much going forward and only really had another moment of note through Richter, who missed the far post two minutes before the break.

Captain Gouweleeuw goes up and scores

Things didn’t change much at the start of the second half, as both teams lacked that cutting edge and precision in front of goal. Richter cleared the bar in the 58th minute and Fabian Kunze headed wide for the hosts eight minutes later. Marcel Hartel couldn’t break the deadlock in the 67th minute, before Robert Gumny’s strike wasn’t accurate enough (71’).

Things didn’t change much at the start of the second half, as both teams lacked that cutting edge and precision in front of goal. Richter cleared the bar in the 58th minute and Fabian Kunze headed wide for the hosts eight minutes later. Marcel Hartel couldn’t break the deaHerrlich made two attacking changes towards the end, bringing on Vargas and Alfred Finnbogason for some added impetus. Nonetheless, Gikiewicz had to be on his toes to keep out Fabian Klos (83’). As the game looked it was petering out into a draw, captain Jeffrey Gouweleeuw burst forward and fed it out wide to Daniel Caligiuri on the left. He found the skipper again in the middle and he slotted home what would be the winning goal with five minutes left to play.dlock in the 67th minute, before Robert Gumny’s strike wasn’t accurate enough (71’).

FCA are now nine points clear of Arminia in the table ahead of the final Bundesliga matchday of 2020 against Eintracht Frankfurt (Saturday, 19th December, 15:30 CET).

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