Corona made it difficult to cope with the crisis in 1860.
Regardless of who is sitting in the coaching bench in Halle on Sunday - a win should be here, even for the table.
Rank 11 after seven match days - not the claim of last year's fourth TSV 1860. Even the Hallesche FC, away opponents on Sunday and last season twice shot down by the lions (6: 1, 4: 0), are one point and three places better.
The Giesinger lost once (0: 3 at FCK), but won too seldom.
The accumulation of ties (four already) isn't the only problem, as our analysis shows.
Offensive lull:
The previous best attack in the league (69 goals last season) has stalled. Top scorer Sascha Mölders and Co. have only hit the mark seven times - at the same time a year ago there were twice as many goals that temporarily made the Lions the leaders of the table. The goal doldrums - a consequence of increased expectations, lack of lightness and jamming of the ex-shooters. Mölders only met twice, Richard Neudecker and Dennis Dressel once.
Slight mistakes:
The lion defense is written on paper. Six goals against are a top value in the league (only Braunschweig and Osnabrück are better off). The problem, however, is: if you rarely score in the front, you quickly lose points if avoidable mistakes happen in the back. This happened most recently at the last-minute equalizer in Braunschweig (after a corner kick) and in the 1-1 draw against Meppen, when a Dressel bad pass favored René Guder's counterattack. "You just have to delete that earlier," criticized coach Michael Köllner.
Promotion pressure:
After the disappointing Meppen game, Köllner admitted for the first time that not everyone in his team was able to cope with the promotion expectations raised in the previous year. “Promotion battle is the hardest thing you can play,” said the coach: “It's different from relegation battle. You have to make sure that your head stays in order and you mustn't turn on your head. ”
On Wednesday evening in Burghausen, a rump eleven led by co-trainers Beer / Brandl tormented their way into the Totopokal quarter-finals (7: 6 nE) - around themselves on To shoot out of the crisis at your favorite opponent Halle on Sunday?