Overview
- SV Wehen Wiesbaden suffered their first 3. Liga defeat of the season on matchday three.
- The result marked Rot-Weiss Essen’s first league victory of the new campaign.
- Wiesbaden led through Jordy Gillekens before Essen flipped the match with goals by José-Enrique Rios Alonso, Kaito Mizuta and Ahmet Arslan in a 16-minute burst.
- Fatih Kaya converted a penalty and Nikolas Agrafiotis struck late to bring Wiesbaden level at 3–3.
- Substitute Torben Müsel delivered the stoppage-time winner for Essen in the fourth minute of added time.