Heidenheim 0-0 Bochum: Honours even in relegation six-pointer

Bochum and Heidenheim failed to easiness their relegation fears aft the struggling teams drew 0-0 successful a tense Bundesliga brushwood connected Friday.

A decision would person condemned bottommost nine Bochum to the 2nd tier, but a gully means they unrecorded to combat different day, moving level connected points with 17th-placed Holstein Kiel.

The effect was arsenic frustrating for Heidenheim, who stay 3rd from bottommost successful the relegation play-off place, 4 points supra Bochum and Kiel but 4 down Hoffenheim, who person a crippled successful hand.

In a archetypal fractional lacking chances, befitting of some teams’ presumption successful the league, Bochum were amended successful the last third, with Giorgos Masouras and Myron Boadu investigating Kevin Muller.

Heidenheim past mislaid goalkeeper Muller to wounded successful the 50th minute, erstwhile helium was taken disconnected connected a stretcher aft a goalmouth clash with visiting midfielder Ibrahima Sissoko.

Marvin Pieringer registered Heidenheim’s archetypal changeable connected people successful the 75th minute, though Frank Schmidt’s squad ne'er looked similar troubling the scoreboard successful the contest.

Both teams volition beryllium nervously watching Holstein Kiel’s clash with Ausgburg connected Saturday, portion St. Pauli and Hoffenheim could cement endurance with wins implicit Stuttgart and Borussia Monchengladbach.

90. Min.: Das wars. Ein torloses Unentschieden gegen den @VfLBochum1848eV.

#FCHBOC 0:0 | @mhp_de pic.twitter.com/27Up0JSYqD

— 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 e. V. (@FCH1846) May 2, 2025

Data Debrief: Nerves instrumentality over

The unit this relegation six-pointer showed astatine the Voith-Arena, with some teams fearful of making mistakes to debar a effect that could specify their campaign.

Bochum were up successful galore of the lucifer metrics, though, ending the contention with an expected goals (xG) full of 1.28 to their opponents’ 0.56.

But it was different crippled without a extremity for Heidenheim, which has been the communicative of their season. They person failed to people successful 14 of their 32 games. Only St. Pauli (15) person failed to people much often successful the Bundesliga this term.

Bochum, meanwhile, person present failed to triumph successful their past 7 games successful the Bundesliga. Their past longer winless streak was from May 2024 to December 2024, a tally of 16 games.