After a rather exciting opening day in the 2014/15 DFB-Pokal, things calmed down a bit on Saturday. Seven Bundesliga clubs began their campaigns, and all but one of them made it through to the second round without major incident.
DFB-Pokal scores: Dortmund and Mönchengladbach roll, Stuttgart falls
Six Bundesliga teams survived their first-round matches on Saturday, with Stuttgart being the only casualty from the top flight.
Matthias Hangst
Borussia Dortmund had no trouble against Stuttgarter Kickers, rolling over the third-division side behind a brace from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Borussia Mönchengladbach were led by a brace as well from Branimir Hrgota as they defeated fourth-division side FC 08 Homburg, 3-1.
The only Bundesliga side to fall on Saturday was VfB Stuttgart, who were defeated 2-0 by second-division side VfL Bochum. Wehen Wsdbaden of the third division took Kaiserslautern from the second division all the way to penalties, but came up short of an upset, falling 5-3.
Here are all the results from Saturday’s action in the German cup.
SV Waldkirch 0-3 SpVgg Fürth
FC Astoria Walldorf 1-3 Hannover 96
FC 08 Homburg 1-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Stuttgarter Kickers 1-4 Borussia Dortmund
FT Braunschweig 0-4 Köln
VfL Bochum 2-0 VfB Stuttgart
FSV Optik Rathenow 1-3 FC St. Pauli
Viktoria Koln 2-4 Hertha BSC
Bremer SV 0-1 BTSV
Wehen Wiesdbaden 0-0 (3-5) Kaiserslautern
FC Viktoria Berlin 0-2 Eintracht
Sportfruende Siegen 3-3 (4-5) FSV Frankfurt
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