VfL Bochum 1948 had too hard a bone to crack in the third phase of the German Cup.
Neither more nor less than RB Leipzig, neither more nor less than the second most powerful team in the current Bundesliga (after Bayern Munich, of course).
Winning him would have been a huge surprise. Losing narrowly would have been decorous.
But neither one nor the other.
The forecasts were fulfilled and Leipzig made subatomic particles to Bochum.
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In the end the score was 4×0, between the runner-up of the first division and the second place in Bundesliga 2. Haidara (10 ‘), Sabitzer (45’) and Poulsen (66 ‘and 75’) were the authors of the goals.
The Tico right-back of Bochum and the National Team, Liberian Cristian Gamboa, suffered 90 minutes of infinite rival superiority.
He came out crestfallen after the defeat and will now focus squarely on his quest for promotion.
Bochum is second, four points behind the leader, Hamburg, but even with third, Holstein Kiel (there are two teams directly promoted to the Bundesliga, and the third plays a play-off match against the third-to-last in the top category).