TSV 1860 wants to gild the season and crown it with promotion.
The fans are hot too.
6000 season tickets for the coming season have already been sold.
Munich - Kaiserslautern coach Marco Antwerpen will remember his last guest appearance at TSV 1860 with a shudder.
At the start of the year in January 2020, his former club Eintracht Braunschweig came under the wheels 1: 4 in the sixties, Efkan Bekiroglu, Dennis Dressel and twice Sascha Mölders gave the lion fans a joyful Sunday afternoon at Giesing's heights.
At the end of the season, it was not the Munich, but the Braunschweiger Löwen that made it into the second division.
For Antwerp, however, it was over as a coach, via the detour Kickers Würzburg he landed at the beginning of February at 1. FC Kaiserslautern, which is threatened with relegation and which he should at least save from falling into the regional league.
TSV 1860: FCK trainer Antwerp sees the Red Devils “on eye level” with the lions
"When it comes to the current performance, then we are on par with 1860," said Antwerp on Sunday with a view to the latest series of the FCK (three wins, three draws). His counterpart today, Michael Köllner, naturally registered the statements. The comment of the lion trainer yesterday afternoon in the Zoom press conference: “The table shows a different picture. Kaiserslautern has scored well in the last few weeks, but we have scored better. On Tuesday you will see who is at eye level with whom. "
In the first half of the season there was no question of a balance of power.
The lions won 3-0 shortly before Christmas on the Betzenberg (Neudecker, Mölders twice).
“After the 0: 1 we had practically no chance,” recalls Lautern's ex-Leo Tim Rieder.
However: "Our football from now can no longer be compared with that from back then."
TSV 1860: Michael Köllner can compete against FCK "with a full band"
Under Antwerp, the Red Devils presented themselves as a compact and handy unit in the 5-4-1 system. “They have become more aggressive and are being pushed vehemently from outside,” says Köllner, summarizing his impressions. Much more important for the Löwen coach is of course the condition of his own team. “We are hungry, want to continue on our way and get three points.” Apart from the long-term failures of Linsbichler, Moll and Staude, everything is on board. “We can play the game with a full band.” Means: Even the last spared Stefan Lex is again an option for the starting XI.
Lex 'former club from Ingolstadt has to play in the parallel game at Hansa Rostock.
"We can take a giant step," said Ingolstadt's CEO Peter Jackwerth, 63, to the Donaukurier.
Which result would be better for the lions remains to be seen.
With a view to second place, a victory for the FCI would be an advantage, with a view to the relegation place a three for Rostock.
TSV 1860: 6000 season tickets for the 2021/22 season have already been sold
“We can only influence our 90 minutes anyway,” says Köllner.
Combative addition from sports director Günther Gorenzel: “We're going into the last four games with a damn big chest.
We have nothing to lose because, unlike the three teams before us, we didn't start the season with the goal of promotion. "
What the Lions can influence is the advance sale of season tickets for the coming season.
Up to yesterday, 6,000 units had already been sold, three quarters of which were without a right of return.
Eye level with the 2nd division *.
At least.
(LUDWIG KRAMMER)
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