FC Bayern's U23 prepared for the third division's restart in the quarantine hotel last week. On Saturday the amateurs will go to FC Ingolstadt.
- The FC Bayern 2 has in quarantine training camp on the re-start of the 3. Liga prepared.
- On Saturday it goes to fifth in the table FC Ingolstadt .
- The amateurs have to do without a professional trio at the start.
Munich - On Saturday, FC Bayern 2 will finally start again. After a week-long dispute over the rest of the season, the DFB Bundestag confirmed on Monday that it would resume play in the third division . At the restart, the reserve of the record champion is in fifth at FC Ingolstadt.
Preparation in the quarantine training camp
Since last Sunday, the small Bavarians have been preparing for the Schanzer in the quarantine training camp . "It works in the same way as the teams in the first and second Bundesliga," said Holger Seitz in an interview with Football Suburb / FuPa Upper Bavaria. The team lives in the hotel and completes the training sessions on the FC Bayern campus . "The preparation on the pitch is the same as before the Corona crisis," confirmed the 45-year-old. Normal team training with physical contact is allowed. You adjust to the coming opponent and work on your own strengths. "The boys are really happy that they can finally start again," Seitz describes his impressions of the team.
Important players from the professional squad are missing
At the start on Saturday in Ingolstadt , some important pillars of amateurs will not be involved. Lars Lukas Mai , Joshua Zirkzee and Oliver Batista Meier have been part of the professional squad in the past few weeks and were on the bench in Tuesday's top Bundesliga game against Borussia Dortmund . So they are not an option for the restart of the 3rd league . "Only those players who have completed the entire quarantine phase with our U23 are allowed to play on Saturday," confirmed Seitz . If players from the professional squad are eligible for a game of the reserve, they would first have to carry out a certain test battery, he continued.
Arp and Singh with the amateurs, chance for Feldhahn
Storm talent Fiete Arp and the New Zealanders Sarpreet Singh were, however, not in the Bundesliga to find the record champion -Aufgebot. You should be against Ingolstadt . Due to the professional stay in May , the experienced Nicolas Feldhahn should also have chances of a starting XI assignment. The amateur captain was last allowed to play against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on match day 19 .
In addition, some players from the U19 were raised to the third division squad. “The game plan envisions many games for us within a very short time. We wanted to equip ourselves for this and added the guys we can trust. The whole thing also happened with regard to the next season, in order to get to know and integrate the players even better, ”said trainer Sebastian Hoeneß on the homepage of the club.
The little Bavarians as spoilers in the promotion race
The small Bavarians could play the spoilers in the promotion race of the 3rd league . After the winter break, they made a run of six wins from seven games and were able to break away from the relegation zone. The Hoeneß -Elf can tackle the rest of the season without much pressure and play free. Six promotion candidates are still on the rest of the amateurs' program: FC Ingolstadt , Eintracht Braunschweig , Waldhof Mannheim , SV Meppen , MSV Duisburg and the Munich Lions . Whether the arrival of the FCB without the professional trio Mai , Zirkzee and Batista Meier could be a small advantage for the Schanzer in the promotion race will be shown on Saturday from 2 p.m.
Text: Patrick Huljina
