FC Kaiserslautern made an emphatic statement in their opening game of the 2. Bundesliga season, beating SSV Ulm 1846 2-1 away from home in the German 2. Bundesliga opener on Sunday afternoon.
Aaron Opoku scored 83 minutes into the 2. Bundesliga opening fixture as the Red Devils kicked off the 2024-25 league campaign with a flourish, crushing SSV Ulm at Donaustadion.
What looked like a tricky opener on paper against the Baden-Württemberg based side proved anything but as Markus Anfang’s side ran riot in a scarcely believable second half in which they scored two goals, after going down in the forty-eighth minute.
Felix Higl gave Ulm lift-off three minutes into the second half with an audacious goal from 30 yards that caught out goalkeeper Julian Krahl at his near post, and 29 minutes later, it was 1-1, centre-back Boris Tomiak with a striker’s spot-kick in the 77th minute.
With the game already sewn up - determined to force the home side to surrender the win for them on a plate, Kaiserslautern's German-born Ghanaian forward Aaron Opoku Tawiah stole the show in the dying embers as he slotted the ball into the net in the 83rd minute to annex all the maximum points for his side.
By: Pascal Amoah
