FC St. Pauli

Head coach Markus Kauczinski made just one change to the side that beat Darmstadt 2-0 last time out, Waldemar Sobota stepping in for the injured Christopher Buchtmann. The Pole began on the right flank, with Mats Møller moving inside in front of the two holding midfielders, Johannes Flum and Marvin Knoll.

The game ebbed and flowed from the opening whistle. Both sides maintained a high tempo, but chances remained a rarity in the opening stages until Nicklas Shipnoski cut inside from the right in the tenth minute and set up Stephan Andrist, who went for the top corner from the edge of the area and only narrowly missed the target. The Boys in Brown fashioned their first chance soon after, Marvin Knoll pulling the trigger from a short corner. His left-foot drive fizzed past the far post.

Urged forward by more than 2,000 fans, Kauczinski's men began to get a grip of things but apart from another long-range effort by Knoll that was comfortably saved by Markus Kolke they had little to show for their industry. At the other end the defence, ably marshalled by the combative Christopher Avevor, gave hardly anything away. But with just over half an hour gone, the home side launched another attack and Daniel Buballa had to step in to block Andrist's shot from a narrow angle at the expense of a corner. And when the ball came in, Sascha Mockenhaupt headed it against Sören Reddemann, who reacted faster than anyone else and fired a low shot into the bottom left corner from eight metres.

The Boys in Brown brushed themselves down and went out in search of a quick equaliser. Richard Neudecker found no takers with a whipped-in cross on 36 and then Knoll tried his luck from distance again, this time firing wide of the other post.

Sören Reddemann (2nd from right behind No10 Sebastian Mrowca) is on hand to open the scoring for the third-division side on 35 minutes.

Faced with the threat of falling at the first hurdle for the eighth time in 13 years, Kauczinski made a change at half-time, handing Henk Veerman his debut for the injured Allagui. And the Dutchman didn't have to wait long to celebrate the equaliser. Knoll swung a corner into the near post, where Wiesbaden's Patrick Schönfeld flicked the ball towards the back post, enabling Neudecker to smash an unstoppable volley into the roof of the net.

The Boys in Brown had Robin Himmelmann to thank for ensuring it stayed 1-1 two minutes later. Marc Wachs drove down the left and found Simon Brandstetter completely unmarked in the middle, and the St. Pauli custodian pulled off a superb reflex save from close range. After a brief lull in which both sides were guilty of giving the ball away, Markus Kauczinski's team enjoyed their best phase of the game. With 63 minutes gone Veerman only narrowly failed to get on the end of a ball in from Neudecker, and 60 seconds later Kolke did brilliantly to turn a lovely curling effort from Mats Møller Dæhli over the crossbar. From the resulting corner Avevor headed just over from six metres before Neudecker was presented with a great chance to make it 2-1 from a pinpoint cross by Møller Dæhli, but he was unable to make a proper contact and the ball rolled wide of the post.

The Boys in Brown were almost left rueing the missed opportunities on 73 when Andrist met a cross that evaded friend and foe alike at the far post. Fortunately, his effort flew wide of the left-hand upright. Kauczinski made a second change soon after, Cenk Sahin replacing Sobota. Wiesbaden substitute Niklas Schmidt was then denied by Himmelmann, and at the other end Veerman headed over from the edge of the box. Flum then hobbled off to be replaced by Bernd Nehrig.

In a nerve-wracking final ten minutes both sides had fantastic opportunities to win it. Veerman did brilliantly to bring down a diagonal ball from Neudecker, only to be denied from close range by Kolke. At the other end Himmelmann produced another fine stop to keep out an effort by Andrist. Moments later Knoll threaded the ball through to Veerman, who again met his match in Kolke. The Wiesbaden keeper pulled out all the stops yet again in stoppage time, tipping a Knoll free-kick over the top before gathering a shot from Møller Dæhli.

The first chance of extra-time fell to the home side, Moritz Kuhn driving his free-kick into the wall. Kauczinski made a fourth and final change on 98 when he introduced Dimitrios Diamantakos for Møller Dæhli. And two minutes later Himmelmann conjured up another outstanding reflex save, sticking out his left arm to keep out an Andrist shot.

But then, two minutes before the break, Wiesbaden were awarded a penalty when Philipp Ziereis was adjudged to have brought down Andrist. Manuel Schäffler stepped up and smashed the ball past Himmelmann to make it 2-1. And as if that weren't bad enough, Schmidt converted a Brandstetter pass to double his side's lead moments later.

The Boys in Brown threw everything at it after the restart and were rewarded in the 109^th minute when Avevor netted on the rebound after Neudecker had been denied by Kolke from Sahin's cross. Veerman was then thwarted by a last-minute block from Mockenhaupt. That was to prove the final chance for an equaliser, and after three minutes of time added on Markus Kauczinski's side were forced to admit defeat after a classic cup-tie.

SV Wehen Wiesbaden

Kolke – Kuhn, Mockenhaupt, Reddemann, Wachs – Andrist, Mrowca, Schönfeld (Schmidt 69'), Brandstetter – Schäffler, Shipnoski (Kyereh 69')

Head coach: Rüdiger Rehm

FC St. Pauli

Himmelmann – Dudziak, Ziereis, Avevor, Buballa – Flum (Nehrig 79'), Knoll – Sobota (Sahin 75'), Møller Dæhli (Diamantakos 98'), Neudecker – Allagui (Veerman 46')

Head coach: Markus Kauczinski

Goals: 1-0 Reddemann (35'), 1-1 Neudecker (51'), 2-1 Schäffler (pen. 103'), 3-1 Schmidt (105'+1), 3-2 Avevor (109')

Yellow cards: Shipnoski, Andrist, Mrowca – Buballa, Knoll, Ziereis, Diamantakos

Referee: Christian Dingert

Attendance: 10,007

Photos: Witters