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Bundesliga: Union Berlin vs Schalke 04: The times are tough and the game tough

2021-02-13T20:25:16.835Z


Union Berlin against Schalke, that was not very respectable Bundesliga football with the corresponding result. It doesn't matter to Union, not Schalke.


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A lot of fight, a lot of cramp at Union against Schalke

Photo: Andreas Gora / dpa

Scene of the game:

If you want to be honest: the final whistle.

If you want to be gracious: one of the two great opportunities for Union.

At the beginning by Taiwo Awoniyi or at the end by Marcus Ingvartsen.

Which were both wasted pretty miserably.

Result of the game:

consequently 0-0.

A result as logical as it is sad.

Schalke got the ninth point of the season.

If things go really well in a season, then you have nine points after three match days.

Schalke needed 21 for this. Whoever wants to read the match report should do so here.

The first half:

After just four minutes, Awoniyi's great chance aroused anticipation for this game.

Then the players did everything to nip it in the bud.

The news this half: Schalke could keep up.

The second half:

A little more momentum, first Awoniyi forgave again, then in the final phase first Union through Ingvartsen, then Nassim Boujellab had the opportunity for the lucky punch.

But it really would not have suited this game if they had transformed it.

Level of the game:

Such games also have an advantage: You didn't have to criticize this game.

"The times are tough and the team is tough," says the Union anthem.

Watching here, also at minus three degrees in a deserted stadium, was also tough.

In the martial language of football reporting, some then resort to the word "attrition".

The situation after the game:

Schalke just can't get any closer to the safe shore.

A point is basically a dot.

And every match day that goes by is one less to make up ground.

Union also sags easily, but that doesn't matter.

Urs Fischer will be annoyed, but the season can no longer go wrong.

Return of the game:

Nabil Bentaleb has already been suspended six times at Schalke 04, which should be a record that Tasmania Berlin has never achieved either.

Now Christian Gross brought him straight into the starting line-up.

Betaleb showed good leadership, so to speak, was eager and after 60 minutes obviously had no more strength.

Returning game II:

Loris Karius was allowed to celebrate his starting debut for Union after nine months at the club because goalkeeper Andreas Luthe was not available for private reasons.

The goalkeeper, who already has a Champions League final in his biography, has certainly had more to do on the substitutes' bench this season than on the pitch this evening.

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Two Swiss coaches in the Bundesliga

Photo: ANNEGRET HILSE / AFP

Swiss of the game:

The coaching duel between Urs Fischer and Christian Gross last took place in September 2011.

Gross won 2-1 with Young Boys Bern over Fischer with FC Zurich.

At that time, today's Schalke coach was still the undisputed number one between the two.

It wasn't of much use to him then either.

Half a year later both were released, Fischer in March and Gross in April.

Nostalgia of the game:

And even further back in time: 20 years ago Schalke and Union faced each other for the first time in Berlin.

On May 26, 2001, both met for the DFB Cup final in the Olympic Stadium.

Schalke won 2-0 with two goals from Jörg Böhme.

And to sprinkle even more salt on the Schalke wounds: Gerald Asamoah, Emile Mpenza, Ebbe Sand, Tomas Hajto, Jiri Nemec, Radek Latal belonged to the team at the time.

By the way, Schalke had a week earlier in the Bundesliga, oh, let's not do that. But if this continues, Sky veteran Rollo Fuhrmann will have to tell Schalke again that it's over.

And this time really.

Finding of the game:

In the coming week Schalke will play the Revierderby against BVB.

Expectations on both sides have probably never been as low as this season.

So it can only be fireworks of good humor.

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Source: spiegel

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