Overview
- Christian Kinsombi leveled in the seventh minute of stoppage time, finishing from close range after a corner was only partially cleared.
- Florian Carstens put Hansa ahead in the 5th minute before Jonas Arweiler equalized for Verl in the 26th minute.
- Martin Ens made it 2–1 for Verl in the 78th minute by glancing in a Timur Gayret free-kick from the half-space.
- Verl narrowly missed a fourth straight league win and remained third, failing to capitalize on Duisburg’s 0–0 at Osnabrück and Cottbus’s 0–3 defeat in Munich.
- Verl arrived on a three-match winning run as coach Tobias Strobl started Yari Otto and Niko Kijewski, while Hansa kept an unchanged XI in the 13th-round match at Rostock; Verl next host Erzgebirge Aue.