Match highlights
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1. FC Union Berlin vs 1. FSV Mainz 05 highlights
How the goals came
1' Kevin Behrens opens the scoring for 1. FC Union Berlin → 9' Kevin Behrens extends 1. FC Union Berlin's lead (the winner) → 64' Anthony Caci pulls one back for 1. FSV Mainz 05 → 70' Kevin Behrens extends 1. FC Union Berlin's lead → 90+6' Miloš Pantović extends 1. FC Union Berlin's lead. Full time: 4-1, 1. FC Union Berlin win.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 5 goals came after half-time. 1 goal in second-half stoppage time.
1' Kevin Behrens (1. FC Union Berlin) 1-0
Matchday 1 of the Bundesliga on 2023-08-20 was barely under way when 1. FC Union Berlin went ahead against 1. FSV Mainz 05. Kevin Behrens scored in the 1st minute to give the home side a 1-0 lead. Union never surrendered that advantage on the way to a 4-1 win, making this the match-winning goal. It was also the first of three goals Behrens would score that day.
9' Kevin Behrens (1. FC Union Berlin) 2-0
Only eight minutes after the opener, Kevin Behrens struck again in the 9th minute to double 1. FC Union Berlin's lead to 2-0. It was his second goal of the afternoon. Inside the first ten minutes, the home side had already opened up a two-goal cushion against 1. FSV Mainz 05.
64' Anthony Caci (1. FSV Mainz 05) 2-1
Two goals down since the first half, 1. FSV Mainz 05 finally found a response in the 64th minute. Anthony Caci scored to make it 2-1 and bring the visitors within a goal. The comeback hopes were short-lived, however, as Union restored their two-goal margin six minutes later.
70' Kevin Behrens (1. FC Union Berlin) 3-1
Six minutes after Mainz had pulled one back, Kevin Behrens completed his hat-trick in the 70th minute. His third goal of the match made it 3-1 and restored 1. FC Union Berlin's two-goal advantage. It cut short any momentum 1. FSV Mainz 05 had gained from their goal.
90'+6 Miloš Pantović (1. FC Union Berlin) 4-1
Miloš Pantović put the finishing touch on the afternoon with a goal in the 90+6th minute, deep into stoppage time. His strike made it 4-1 to 1. FC Union Berlin. Following Kevin Behrens' hat-trick, the fourth goal sealed a three-goal home win on Matchday 1 of the Bundesliga.
