Regardless of the outcome of the Monday evening game (Türkgücü vs. Rostock), the lions still pay off in the race for promotion.
Basic requirement for this: a victory on Wednesday in Lübeck - and from now on no more defeat.
Good for 1860: The teams at the top of the table are still playing against each other and taking away the points.
Ideally, there will be a showdown in Ingolstadt on the last day of the game.
33 points remain to be awarded - from now on it is forbidden to lose.
Top values: 1860 provides the best attack, the second best defensive, the best goalscorer and the third best goalkeeper.
Köllner knows how it's done: He took over Nuremberg as a relegation candidate - and led it into the Bundesliga.
The three big lies
of football coaches at the
end of the season
(based on the SZ magazine): 1. “I don't care about the table, I don't even look at it.” 2. “Anything is still possible with a series.” 3. “We are so far As far as our season goals are concerned. ”In the case of TSV 1860, it would have to be true: Everything is still possible - if Rostock scores points in the Monday evening game at Türkgücü (not yet finished at the time of publication) - and the lions in turn the next win both games.
The
catch-up game on Wednesday in Lübeck
- and the
Monday evening hit against table leaders Dresden
.
Then Michael Köllner would also look at the table again after the 1860 coach had declared after the Duisburg bankruptcy: "The topic of advancement didn't interest me before - and I'm not interested now either."
Thanks to the
4-0 gala in Halle
, a missed victory, the
light of hope shines
again in 1860
.
Regardless of yesterday's result: It cannot be ruled out that the lions will reach the top again.
33 points are still to be awarded
- and the teams in front still have difficult games and take points away from each other (May 5th: Rostock vs. Ingolstadt).
In 1860, on the other hand, it is now:
No losing!
The basic requirement, however, is that the Köllner team draws a sprint in terms of points.
Without a
win in Lübeck
, the slide rule can be mothballed again before the top game against Dresden.
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No striker hits more often: Sascha Mölders scored his 16th goal of the season in a 4-0 win in Halle.
© Stefan Matzke / Sampics
After all: there are a few numbers that give encouragement to the truth before this week.
1860 continues to provide the best Sturm
(50 goals, like Dresden),
the second best defense
(25 goals conceded, only Dynamo conceded less),
the best third division goalscorer
(Sascha Mölders, 16)
and the third best goalkeeper
(this is how the specialist magazine "kicker" rates it) Marco Hiller, who has already held to zero nine times).
Another big plus is the
first and second division
experience
of half of the regular
eleven: Salger, Biankadi, Neudecker, Mölders, Lex and now Staude.
In addition, there is a coach who is familiar with
borderline experiences
: In Nuremberg,
Michael Köllner
took over
a threatened second division team (11th place) in March 2017 and took him to the upper house a year and two months later, which no clubber
would have thought possible
when
Köllner took office
.
In the final sprint, the man from Upper Palatinate put in a
small winning streak
(five games, 13 points) - until the sensation was perfect with one game day to go.
And again on the last matchday against Ingolstadt ...
Köllner's problem in 1860: No matter how adverse the circumstances are (average budget, no fans, minor injured) - the environment does not expect more, but also no less than
tension until the last day of the game
.
Last season, after a
wave pool with results, they
just managed to do that: If everyone had played, relegation would have been possible in the season finale against Ingolstadt (0: 2).
And this year, too,
a delightful constellation
awaits
on the 38th matchday
: the opponent is again FC Ingolstadt, this time away.
If the FCI hadn't just
ignited
the
turbo
(seven games, six wins) - it could also be an option to stalk up to three points and give the Upper Bavarian rival the next knockout in the last few meters (after Ingolstadt's traumatic failure in relegation against Nuremberg).
How hot Köllner is still
to keep
the
chance of promotion
, shows his reaction to the 4-0 of Halle. The rule is that after victories he is in a good mood and lets everyone participate. This time the
following has been handed down
from the
HFC stadium
:
narrow-lipped compulsory commentary on the game
(“stable 4-0 away win”) - Köllner left the other media work to
sports director Günther Gorenzel
. It is said that he was still angry that 1860 in Duisburg (0: 1) brought about an even better starting position. If you tick like that, you don't give up until it says, as in the casino: Rien ne va plus. Or as the avowed Christian Köllner would put it:
Mass is only over when the organ stops playing
.
