The feeling for Taiwo Awoniyi after Florian Badstubner’s final whistle at Stuttgart must have been bittersweet.
Even though he netted his seventh league goal of the campaign, Union Berlin were denied their first-ever victory at the Mercedes-Benz Arena due to Wahid Faghir’s deflected stoppage-time equaliser.
In addition to that disappointment for the Nigeria international, the late leveller denied Union a fourth Bundesliga win on the trot—which would have set a new club record for a side still finding their feet in Germany’s top flight.
Nine games in, and Urs Fischer’s men sit in fifth spot — one point and a place outside the Champions League spots — with their so-far decisive summer arrival at the forefront of an unanticipated start, despite last season’s seventh-place finish.