Overview

• Ivan Prtajin scored in the 7th and 80th minutes, Paul Joly made it 3–1 in the 86th, and a late Jan Elvedi own goal set the 3–2 final after Gerrit Holtmann’s 15th-minute equalizer.
• A crowd of 48,155 at the Fritz-Walter-Stadion watched the hosts fashion the clearer chances, including three gilt‑edged misses in a 90‑second burst just after the hour.
• Coach Torsten Lieberknecht’s second-half switches, bringing on Dickson Abiama and Faride Alidou for Marlon Ritter and Naatan Skyttä, shifted momentum toward Kaiserslautern.
• The win preserved a perfect four-from-four home league start and stretched the club’s overall home streak to six, with no league defeats at the venue under Lieberknecht.
• Kaiserslautern moved to fifth in the 2. Bundesliga, two points behind leaders Darmstadt and Paderborn, while Bochum’s skid hit six with Rösler now tasked with stopping the slide.