All three captains seriously injured. Now Alexander Winkler has to go.
Unterhaching - Alexander Winkler is - as of now - the only player of SpVgg Unterhaching who will leave the club after this season. Should there be anything to celebrate at the end of the season, the 28-year-old will be at the forefront of all the photos: Winkler Hachings has been captain in the last seven games. On his farewell round after five years at the SpVgg, he once again becomes a figurehead, in addition to his already important role in central defense.
The fact that Winkler now wears the bandage not only interim as before three times this season is due to Dominik Stahl's injury. He is operated on after his cruciate ligament rupture in his right knee in the game against Braunschweig earlier this week. Steel is already the third captain on the injured list after Josef Welzmüller and Marc Endres, Winkler is now used as number four of the designated captains. According to Stahl's mishap, some media have already written about the "curse of the Haching bandage". For the SpVgg, the failure of the leaders is tragic, but also not a structural problem. "It is nothing new that the second, third or fourth captain wears the bandage on our pitch, and this is not the first time for Alex either," says coach Claus Schromm. "I hope that under no circumstances will anything be added, otherwise it will be tight. But so far we have been able to compensate for this quite well. ”
Because the SpVgg is currently struggling through a crisis and, with three defeats in a row, has completely failed the restart, including the optimal starting position in the promotion race, a strong and loud captain will now be particularly important. Even in the away game at FSV Zwickau on Sunday (2 p.m.). There the Hachingen are once again visiting a relegation candidate, are considered a favorite and yet hear all the alarm bells ringing. The last situation in Münster was the same, in the end there was a 1: 2 defeat. SpVgg conceded seven goals in the last three games. Too much for the team, which still has the third best defensive in the third division with 38 goals. Not a bad thing if the captain directs from the defense center in this situation.
"Especially when it comes to conceding goals, we have to do a lot better," says Claus Schromm before the match at table 16. in Saxony. Changing the style of play, for example focusing primarily on the defense and putting forward on the counterattack, as all opponents have been doing very successfully in the end, is out of the question for the Unterhachingen head coach: “We like the ball and we can handle the ball well. We proved that against Braunschweig for 90 minutes. Standing in the back and playing on the counter does not correspond to our basic philosophy. "Seeing the positive, staying focused, reflecting on your own strengths is the motto at the weekend:" Sometimes there is simply no luck that a ball comes in or we falls at our feet, ”says Schromm,“ to reward us for our commitment. ”Next try on Sunday in Zwickau.
SpVgg Unterhaching: Mantl - Schwabl, Winkler, Greger, Dombrowka - Hufnagel, Fuchs - Marseiler, Heinrich - Schröter, Stroh-Engel.
