The serious injury of Quirin Moll clouded the preparation of TSV 1860 against Meppen.
Sports director Günther Gorenzel and coach Michael Köllner want to hold on to the leader.
The shock at
TSV 1860
after Quirin Moll's serious injury is
deep
before the game against
SV Meppen
.
Sports director
Günther Gorenzel
wants to
extend
the midfielder despite the
cruciate ligament rupture
"within our means".
Coach
Michael Köllner
sees
several options
to replace the 30-year-old in the
coming weeks and months
.
Munich - First the manager, then the trainer.
At the beginning of the press conference before the
1860 home game
against
Meppen
(Sunday, 1 p.m. in the live ticker), sport played a minor role.
The dominant topic was the serious injury to
midfield boss Quirin Moll
(cruciate ligament tear) and how it was dealt with - human, personal, medical.
TSV 1860: Sports director Günther Gorenzel announces solidarity campaign for Quirin Moll
Günther Gorenzel
underlined the “oath of the team” to win the Monday home game against Ingolstadt despite the minor shock: “This spirit is indicative of how our team works,” said the sports director, who
announced
another
solidarity campaign
for
Sunday
.
Coach Michael Köllner also
felt with his downcast leader when he said: "
Basically, it's a tough story
."
But: One day after
Moll's
30th birthday
, the Löwen promised their patient that he could
rely on the association
beyond the
end of
his
contract
.
"
We have clearly signaled to him that we will look for a solution beyond the summer as far as possible,
" said Gorenzel, who did not provide any further information "out of respect for Quirin" - neither about the planned course of therapy (tendency: no surgery) about "speculation about what we might still be doing by the end of the transfer period".
As always,
Köllner
expressed himself a little more boldly and compared the minor mishap with the pause button on a video recorder: “Nothing is stopped, just stopped.
It will take a while before it continues. "
One thing is
certain:"
Quirin will remain an important player for us.
"
TSV 1860 against SV Meppen: "Six to seven people" can replace Quirin Moll
In the upcoming second half of the season it will depend on other players.
Loyal, as
Köllner
is, he does not demand a financial winter transfer tightrope, but is satisfied with what his squad has to offer.
And that, according to the coach, is a lot.
Köllner listed: “
We have six to seven people who can play this position.
“The most obvious is
Daniel Wein
, who should be set for
Sunday
.
The other options are:
Central
defender
Semi Belkahia, Dennis Erdmann, Talent Marco Mannhardt, 18
, and the three
eighties Neudecker, Tallig and Dressel
.
"I'm not worried about that," said Köllner: "Quirin certainly brought in his own spirit, but we will find solutions." In an emergency, the coach confirmed when asked,
Phillipp Steinhart
could also
help out on the six.
Detached from the minor cause, there is
great confidence
that they will be able to build on the successful first half of the season (33 points, seven more than the previous season).
The only requirement:
Nobody should let up
- neither “one millimeter” (Gorenzel) nor “five percent” (Köllner).
Again the trainer: "The
table
looks beautiful, but unfortunately no three points can be derived from it."
(ULI WAITER)
