Rhein-Neckar Löwen claimed a narrow 27:26 victory over Bergischer in the Bundesliga on Friday evening. Both sides had drawn their opening two fixtures and this result kept them level on points at the bottom of the table. The away side made the difference in the final moments.
And here's the thing — we had called this one before kickoff. Sixty-five percent confidence on the visitors, and it came through. Bergischer had been competitive in their previous outings, losing by single margins to Flensburg and Stuttgart, but they couldn't hold on.
Both teams remain winless after two rounds. Bergischer sit in sixteenth place with zero points, while Rhein-Neckar Löwen occupy seventeenth. The gap between them is measured in goal difference alone, not results.
By then, the visitors had shown enough composure to see out a game Bergischer pushed hard into. Their last defeat came against Gummersbach, and since then they've been grinding out results rather than running away with matches.
That one-goal margin tells you everything. Both teams came for competition and neither was willing to surrender ground. The table says little at this stage, but the pattern is forming — tight, physical, decided by moments.