Stuttgart roll past Großaspach with six-goal display

VfB Stuttgart defeated SG Sonnenhof Großaspach by a 6-2 result on the first day of the September international break. Chris Führich scored a second half hat-trick in the victory.

VfB Stuttgart travelled within the state of Baden-Württemberg to face SG Sonnenhof Großaspach at the Mechatronik Arena.

Sonnenhof are in Regionalliga Südwest, the fourth tier of German football; after five matches, they are performing well, with a 3-1-1 record and undefeated in their last three. As for Stuttgart, who are three levels above their opponents in the Bundesliga, they are currently 1-0-1, eighth in the table after two matches; the 2024/25 DFB-Pokal champions lost their opening match to Union Berlin (1-2), but managed a one-goal victory against Borussia Mönchengladbach at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.

The visitors would strike first in the eleventh minute, thanks to Nikolas Nartey, who was on the receiving end of a Dan Axel Zagadou short pass before curling a left-footed attempt from the edge of the box into the right side of the Sonnenhof net.

The visitors would add two more in the next twenty-five minutes. Badredine Bouanani doubled the lead in the fifteenth minute with a low shot from the edge of the box, past Maximilian Reule and into the bottom-left corner; Yannik Keitel would follow by deflecting a Pascal Stenzel free kick cross into the bottom-right corner.

After Loris Maier brought the score back to 3-1, it was Chris Führich’s time to shine, as the 27-year-old German midfielder/winger would score a hat-trick and increase the lead to 6-1 by the seventy-third minute. Tiago Tomás supplied the assists for two of the goals, which were both ground passes from the right edge of the Sonnenhof penalty area; the third was an individual run into the box before ultimately launching a right-footed shot into the bottom-right corner.

By the time that Benedikt Landwehr scored to make it 6-2 in the eighty-first minute, there was no chance for the hosts to mount a comeback, and the final whistle would eventually be blown on a dominant result for Stuttgart, who will be visiting SC Freiburg after the international break on Sunday, 13. September (15:30 CET). As for Sonnenhof, they will visit 1-1-2 Hessen Kassel on Saturday (14:00 CET)