Overview
- Naatan Skyttä scored in the 7th, 11th and first-half stoppage time to complete a hat-trick and send Kaiserslautern into the break up 4-1.
- Mika Haas restored a two-goal cushion with his first professional goal after Alexander Bernhardsson converted a Kiel penalty won by Adrián Kaprálik.
- Kiel were reduced to 10 men five minutes into the second half when David Zec received a second yellow card for fouling Marlon Ritter.
- Kaiserslautern registered 28 shots and sustained pressure as Kiel goalkeeper Jonas Krumrey kept the score from growing.
- The win snapped a three-match winless run and moved Kaiserslautern to sixth with 23 points from 13 games, while Kiel fell to 11th.