FC St. Pauli

FC St. Pauli beat Paderborn 2-1 on Sunday to secure another three points at the start of their eight-match end-of-season run-in. Marcel Hartel gave his side a deserved 32nd minute lead before added a second Lars Ritzka straight after the restart. Adriano Grimaldi pulled one back for the visitors on 56 but was later sent off for a second bookable. A man to the good, the Boys in Brown saw the game out comfortably to seal a deserved victory.

FC St. Pauli slipped to a 1-0 defeat at FC Magdeburg on Saturday afternoon. In an evenly balanced contest, the home side capitalised on a huge defensive mistake to notch the only goal of the game through Bariş Atik. The Boys in Brown threw everyone forward in a bid to ward off their first league defeat since April 2023 but their efforts were to prove in vain.

FC St. Pauli lost the only warm-up game of their winter preparations on Friday afternoon, going down 3-1 to VfL Osnabrück after 2 x 75 minutes in La Nucia. Dave Gnaase and Christian Conteh gave Osnabrück the lead before the break before Adam Dźwigała pulled one back, only for Noel Niemann to finish it 17 minutes from time.