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Sascha Mölders prepared the lead for 1860 against Schalke 04
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MERK / imago images / Michaela Merk
Football romance:
The match between the second division Schalke 04 and the third division 1860 Munich should have wet eyes for football romantics, if you only think of players like Martin Max, who played for both clubs in the Bundesliga and was top scorer in 2000 and 2002.
1860 against Schalke, especially in the Giesinger floodlights, stands for a time of German professional football for which even the greatest traditionalists would immediately introduce a Super League.
And on Tuesday evening, the game also represented a cup surprise.
The result:
An early goal by Stefan Lex (5th minute) won 1860 Munich in the second round of the DFB Cup against the higher-class Schalke 04. It is the earliest Schalke cup since the 2015/2016 season.
Read the match report here.
"Wampe von Giesing":
Sascha Mölders looks like one of those amateur players who used to play higher, but who are now slightly overweight strutting across the district league lawn in order to be the first at the beer crate after the final whistle. Projected onto professional football only. The former Bundesliga striker now calls himself the "Wampe von Giesing", sells merchandise with the title "Belly, Legs, Beer" and lets criticism of his weight "bounce off my waist". Mölders showed in the fifth minute that he could afford it all: he won the ball in the opposing penalty area and served Lex, who hit the lead from the turn. And otherwise Mölders was somehow involved in almost every attack by his team.
First half:
The starting positions could not have been more different: Schalke jumped to the relegation rank for promotion after four second division wins in a row, in 1860 after seven games without a win, the relegation zone to the regional league fell immediately before the relegation zone. So it was astonishing how early and how high the third division team, led by Mölders, pressed. After the lead and further chances, with which 1860 could have made it 3-0 (7th, 9th), an exchange of blows developed: The greatest Schalke chances were thwarted by Marius Bülter (18th) and Marcin Kaminski (31st) Munich's strong goalkeeper Marco Hiller.
Boiled:
Schalke coach Dimitrios Grammozis said at the beginning of the season that his team could also be dominant if they
acted
against the ball instead of with it. The coach's basic defensive approach paid off recently, with Schalke not conceding a single goal in four wins in a row. For the game around 1860, however, Grammozis began to experiment and brought Darko Churlinov in for Thomas Ouwejan, who was the last strong left winger. After Churlinov let Mölders boil himself before the 0: 1, Grammozis corrected his decision in the 22nd minute.
Second half:
The Schalke catch-up for the second round experienced a bitter damper when a few minutes after the restart a further diagonal ball slipped through and Malick Thiaw tore the hurried Lex to the ground in front of the penalty area. Referee Dr. Robert Kampka showed the U21 international the red card (48th); if conceding an early goal was the beginning of the end, the red card was the end of the end. That didn't change the substitution of top scorer Simon Terodde (62nd). Bülter missed the greatest chances for Schalke (71st, 79th), on the other hand Ralf Fährmann prevented a higher victory.
Schalke problems:
That Grammozis lectured so convincingly of the dominance in the game against the ball is probably also due to the obvious weaknesses in Schalke's development game.
Led by goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann, who was allowed to run as the regular number two in the cup, Schalke hardly managed to make a controlled play under opposing pressure.
1860 coach Michael Köllner said after the game at Sky that they knew about the Schalke problems under pressure and wanted to exploit this weak point early on.
"We pulled it off," said Köllner.
