Elversberg hosted Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga's third round at the Ursspharm-Arena an der Kaiserlinde on Saturday, with the visitors claiming a 2-1 victory. The result moved Bayern up to fourth in the table, three points clear of their hosts who sit sixth after three games.
Francis Onyeka opened the scoring for Elversberg with a yellow card in the seventh minute before being substituted eleven minutes in, which seemed to galvanise the home side. Lennart Karl then made it 1-0 in the twenty-sixth minute, and by then the match had taken on a different character entirely.
Maurice Krattenmacher doubled Elversberg's lead in the sixty-first minute, and Bayern looked exposed until the sixtieth minute mark. Felix Keidel picked up a booking in the sixty-third minute, and the visitors made four changes in the sixty-fifth minute: Nathaniel Brown, Tom Bischof, Ismael Saibari and Lennart Karl all came on.
Harry Kane pulled one back for Bayern in the seventy-second minute, though it was too little too late. Felix Keidel and David Mokwa were replaced in the seventy-third minute, and Lukas Petkov came on in the eighty-third minute as Elversberg held on grimly.
Bayern dominated possession at 72 per cent to 28, but Elversberg created more from fewer chances. The visitors registered six shots on target against three for their hosts, and their expected goals figure of 2.83 stood in stark contrast to Elversberg's 0.94.
And here's the thing — we had Bayern to win at 95 per cent confidence, and that prediction held up. The result means Bayern remain within touching distance of the top four, while Elversberg's unbeaten run came to an end.