The relief was palpable throughout the sports park.
SpVgg Unterhaching won 1-0 (1-0) against VfB Lübeck on the 2nd match day of the 2020/21 season, celebrating their first home win since February - and their first win with new coach Arie van Lent.
BY ROBERT GASSER
Unterhaching - After the final whistle there was a big party in the dressing room.
Because the team knows: We can build on this victory.
The Hachingen fans were happy until Thursday morning.
Finally back to football in the stadium, finally support your own team again.
Nothing came of this (for the well-known reasons surrounding the increasing corona numbers).
When the kick-off took place on Friday evening, the fans noticed that the place in front of the television wasn't the worst.
After all, the weather was as it could hardly be worse for a September evening.
Five degrees, a lot was not missing, then the continuous rain would have turned into snowfall.
And as dreary the external conditions of this ghost game were, the performance of SpVgg Unterhaching was just as dreary at the beginning.
The climber from the north acted anything but cold.
They carried out their attacks in a controlled and determined manner.
The back team from Hachingen was very busy and inevitably acted too often with long balls in order to free themselves from the pressing of the guests.
Long balls that were all too easy prey for VfB Lübeck.
But it wasn't long before the Hachinger team caught up and got better and better into the game.
In the front, the physically strong newcomer Patrick Hasenhüttl (son of the ex-Haching coach and current Premier League coach Ralph Hasenhüttl with irrepressible commitment and thus repeatedly created spaces in the Lübeck half.) He failed twice in Lübeck even within a few moments Goalkeeper Raeder.
In the 23rd minute, Luca Marseiler then stepped in the sixteen-meter space and was illegally brought to the ground.
Christoph Greger safely converted the penalty.
Lübeck's trainer Rolf Martin Landerl spoke afterwards of a “paralysis”: We didn't get our game on the mat. ”Haching took control of the game more and more, but there were no more dangerous chances before the break.
After the restart, the Red-Blue picked up where they left off: playing control and scoring chances.
Again and again the game association came in front of the goal of the guests, but never jumped out a really compelling possibility.
Patrick Hasenhüttl once again had the best chance after 67 minutes, when a blocked shot by Luca Marseiler landed right in front of his feet, but the finish was cleared at the last moment by the Lübeckers for a corner.
In the last few minutes the team from the Baltic Sea threw everything forward again, but Haching brought the lead over time with luck and skill.
Haching's coach Arie van was delighted with his first victory as head coach of SpVgg: “Except for the last quarter of an hour that was okay today.
We were a bit tired then.
That's why everyone was really relieved after the final whistle.
For me as a coach, of course, that's good too! ”Commenting on possible newcomers, van Lent said:“ The players are good enough.
We've changed the way we play football a bit, we're running hard at the front.
It takes time for it to work itself out. "
Patrick Hasenhüttl smiled all over his face after his third division debut: “My first third division game and a victory straight away - that feels really good.
On a good day, I score a goal or two.
But that doesn't matter now: finally three points again! "
