{"id":72397,"date":"2026-09-06T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/72397"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:44:15","slug":"mainz-thrash-hamburg-as-augsburg-move-to-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/72397","title":{"rendered":"Mainz thrash Hamburg as Augsburg move to top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Mainz ignited their Bundesliga season with a thumping 5-0 win over hapless Hamburg, while Augsburg climbed to the top of the table following a 4-1 \u200bwin at Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mainz had lost 4-0 at Hamburg last season, \u200cbut this time round were in complete control from the start and took the lead on 19 minutes as Sheraldo Becker was played in on goal by Kaishu Sano and picked out the \u200bbottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Becker then turned provider as his low cross was converted at the \u200bback post by Phillipp Mwene for a 2-0 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Becker was again \u2060involved with the next goal as he set up Phillip Tietz to bundle the \u200bball home.<\/p>\n<p>Tietz then added a fourth as he beat goalkeeper Heuer Fernandes, before ex-Hamburg player \u200bRansford-Yeboah Koenigsdoerffer punished his former employers with a fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg sit bottom of the Bundesliga table having lost their opening two matches of the season and have yet to find the back of the net, \u200bwhile Mainz are in fifth place with four points from two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very \u200bgood performance,\u201d Mainz coach Urs Fischer said. \u201cWe were in control over the 90 minutes. We really didn\u2019t \u200callow \u2060much (chances for Hamburg). We are happy to take the three points with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg have a full haul of six points following their excellent win at Frankfurt, where they had to come from behind having trailed 1-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Burkardt headed the home side in \u200bfront inside six minutes \u200bfrom Younes Ebnoutalib\u2019s lofted \u2060pass into the box as Frankfurt dominated the chances and might have been out of sight by the break.<\/p>\n<p>But it was a \u200btotally different affair in the second period as Arijon Ibrahimovic headed \u200bin at \u2060the back post on debut inside the first minute of the re-start.<\/p>\n<p>And within a minute of that goal, Augsburg were 2-1 ahead as the ball fell to Robin Fellhauer in the \u2060box \u200band he converted to turn the game on its \u200bhead.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors made it 3-1 when Alexis Claude-Maurice fired in from the edge of the box and Fabian Rieder \u200badded a late fourth from a free-kick to complete a comprehensive win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/mainz-thrash-hamburg-as-augsburg-move-to-top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainz ignited their Bundesliga season with a thumping 5-0 win over hapless Hamburg, while Augsburg climbed to the top of the table following a 4-1 \u200bwin at Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday. Mainz had lost 4-0 at Hamburg last season, \u200cbut this time round were in complete control from the start and took the lead on 19 minutes as Sheraldo Becker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-14-2-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4639,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4639,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72399,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397\/revisions\/72399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}