There goes the final whistle! St Pauli have won their seventh game in a row to keep their distant promotion hopes alive! Recent signing Afolayan nets the winner, the Englishman proving the hero for the hosts.

The game has hit a quiet moment as both teams begin to ring the changes. With their ten man struggling somewhat, Fürth looked to have hit a wall in terms of energy levels.

What a half that was! Fürth took the early lead through Ache, who then had another ruled out for offside as the visitors swarmed all over their opponents. Saliakas woke Pauli from their slumber with a well-worked goal before things calmed somewhat. The Cloverleaves were then reduced to ten after Jung's straight red.

Both sides now content to knock it about as the sun shines down on the Millerntor. The chances have reduced since that cracking opening to this match.

Both teams continue to go at each other in what has been a superb game of end-to-end football thus far. Pauli appear to have recovered from that desperate start to the game but Fürth are continuing to look adventurous.

Irvine and Marco John clatter into each other in the middle of the park and both collapse in a heap. After some light attention, both players hobble away, keen to get on with things.

The Boys in Brown kick off. The pitch is strewn with ticker tape and the stadium is buzzing. The perfect afternoon for football!

Here come the teams! It's nippy but bright and the Millerntor is packed to the rafters. We're ready to go.

We're all set for what will be a 36th meeting between these teams in the second division. Can Pauli keep their incredible climb up the standings going under Fabian Hürzeler or will Fürth dampen home spirits? We're about to find out.

It's as you were for today's hosts, who name the same starting line-up that began the 2-1 triumph in Paderborn last weekend.

Schaffran, Itter, Meyerhöfer, Michalski, Dietz, Green, Abiama, Pululu, Sieb

Linde – Griesbeck, Jung, Haddadi – Asta, Petkov, Christiansen, John – Raschl – Sieb, Hrgota (c)

Burchert, Dzwigala, Fazliji, Ritzka, Wieckhoff, Aremu, Eggestein, Maurides, Otto

Vasilj – Medic, Smith, Mets – Saliakas, Irvine (c), Hartel, Paqarada – Metcalfe, Daschner, Afolayan

It's been a big week in the life of Pauli's Australian captain Jackson Irvine, who turned 30 last Tuesday. The Melbourne native will be keen to celebrate with a victory today.

Greuther Fürth's form, meanwhile, has been slightly more patchy of late, with Alexander Zorniger's side winless in two games. The Cloverleaves are much improved since the Autumn, however, losing just three of ten second division fixtures.

Hello and welcome to today's coverage of what promises to be an exciting encounter between St. Pauli and Greuther Fürth in Germany's second tier.