FC St. Pauli's performance in Heidenheim was a disaster, losing 0:2 and putting their spot in the league in danger. The team must work on key issues to secure their spot in the league. The 1. FC Heidenheim played with an offensive lineup, with Pieringer, Zivzivadze, and Dinkçi starting on the pitch. Beck's substitution shortly after the restart was a decisive impulse in the right direction for Heidenheim. Alexander Blessin had warned about the Heidenheimer danger through switching moments before the game. In the second minute, FC St. Pauli experienced how it is from up close. After a loss in the third of Heidenheimer, it quickly went in the other direction, and Dinkçi's shot was parried by Vasilj. From this, the 0:1 was created. Because the long ball to the second post was not consistently defended and then exactly landed where two Heidenheimer players were between the seven FCSP players. Zivzivadze pushed the ball over the line after a bit of ping-pong. What a terrible start to a then also quite terrible game for FC St. Pauli. Before the game, Alexander Blessin had also sketched out how to successfully counter the Heidenheimer's man-oriented game. Either through the more offensive variant, with many deep balls behind the last line of the opponent. Or through the more tactical variant, with Steil-Klatsch elements. FC St. Pauli chose a mix of both variants, trying it with deep balls on Hountondji and short passes mainly over the Fujita side. Both worked much too rarely. In the Steil-Klatsch moments, it was often simply the high inaccuracy of the passes and combinations that made them work hardly. What was very annoying was that in the few situations where something like this worked, one could see how promising it was. The big chance through Hountondji in the 24th minute is the only bright spot in an otherwise very dark game. FC St. Pauli must now work on key issues to secure their spot in the league.