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Carnival is celebrated: Harsh criticism of the Mainz team

2020-02-23T23:39:05.836Z


After the 0: 4 in Wolfsburg, those responsible from Mainz 05 relentlessly criticized their team. For the club, it will be tight again in the relegation battle - and now, of all times, decisive games are coming.


After the 0: 4 in Wolfsburg, those responsible from Mainz 05 relentlessly criticized their team. For the club, it will be tight again in the relegation battle - and now, of all times, decisive games are coming.

Wolfsburg / Mainz (dpa) - One thing Achim Beierlorzer made clear right after the 0: 4 in Wolfsburg: Of course, his team would take part in the Mainz Monday Monday procession. Because of a severe setback in the relegation battle, no carnival pleasure is canceled in this city.

"Mainz 05 is a carnival club," said Beierlorzer. "And if we are a carnival club, we will go on the Rosenmontagszug and will celebrate it accordingly." A little "but" followed: "After that we have to switch immediately and see our task next weekend."

Next weekend the table 15 plays. Mainz against the bottom of the table SC Paderborn. The weekend after that against table 16. Fortuna Dusseldorf and again a week later at table 13. 1. FC Cologne. "Now we have our direct competitors in front of us. It starts with the next game against Paderborn - and we want and have to win that," said Beierlorzer. "The next games will be decisive for us. They are absolutely trend-setting. And we clearly have to bring a different look to the field in these games."

Because everyone saw one thing in the Sunday evening game of the Bundesliga: If the Mainz play again like in Wolfsburg, then they will hardly get anything against Paderborn, Düsseldorf or Cologne. Then the advantage of two points on the relegation rank and still five points on a direct relegation zone is quickly gone. "Our fans showed a Bundesliga-like performance today," said sports director Rouven Schröder after the goals conceded by Josip Brekalo (21.), Renato Steffen (45./68.) And Yannick Gerhardt (49.) - but not the players.

Precisely because the next games are so important, the reaction of those responsible to the performance in Wolfsburg was so relentless. "That wasn't acceptable today," said Schröder. "It is important to be very clear about your opinion, to look yourself in the face and to be self-critical. It has to get into your head that we will have a hard time with such appearances."

This appearance hit Mainz so hard because they had previously impressed against Schalke 04 (0: 0) and Hertha BSC (3: 1). "It runs through the entire season: That we lack consistency," said goalkeeper Robin Zentner. This was particularly noticeable at the same time as the first half of the season. Mainz got six points from the three key games against Paderborn (2: 1), Düsseldorf (0: 1) and Cologne (3: 1) before things got really crazy about the change of coach from Sandro Schwarz to Beierlorzer: 0: 8 in Leipzig, 2: 3 against Union Berlin and suddenly a 5: 1 in Hoffenheim. After the game in Wolfsburg, you would probably even be satisfied with a comparable score in the next six games.

Source: merkur

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