After the sweet cup win against Schalke, the league has a contrast program: Freiburg II. On Saturday 1860 is the favorite again.
Sunday will then be drawn.
Hardly was Bayern's 5-0 debacle in Borussia-Park perfect on Wednesday evening when the first ridicule-and-malice GIFs were circulating on social media.
Funny from the point of view of TSV 1860: A fan in lion outfit jumps cheerfully into the air, holding the DFB Cup with one hand (which is not clutching the beer glass).
The comment: "You can avoid a derby as cowardly." Laughing emoji.
Bayern-Häme: "You can avoid a derby as cowardly ..."
The lions in the third round of the cup, Bayern miserably out - in fact, this is an extremely rare constellation that the younger generation of fans has never experienced. To find something comparable in the archives, you have to page back to the 2000/2001 season. At that time, Hitzfeld-Bayern suffered an early break at 1. FC Magdeburg (2: 4 nE), the leaders of the NOFV Oberliga. The Löwen, who had just failed to qualify for the Champions League, took their second-round hurdle: 2-1 victory after extra time at SpVgg Unterhaching (goals: Beierle 89th minute, Agostino 119th). Nice also for 1860: After Bavaria, Augsburg and Regensburg were eliminated (like Bayreuth and Türkgücü in the first round), the Lions are the only representatives of the Free State in the round of the last 16.
A TV must-attend event for 1860 fans is now the draw for the third round on Halloween Sunday in the ARD sports show (6.30 p.m.).
Before that, however, the maximum contrast program is announced.
In the third division, it’s against a team that doesn’t have nearly as an aura as cup opponents Schalke.
Freiburg II is pretty much the opposite of the Revierclub: no big names, no significant history and probably no hordes of fans accompanying the team.
Means: switch, lions!
So that there is no rude awakening in the compulsory program of the 3rd division after the freestyle in the DFB Cup.
You have to get your things done first and foremost.
1860 coach Michael Köllner.
Michael Köllner is aware that it will not be easy to tear his team out of the royal blue cup dreams for 90 minutes. During his appearance on Wednesday in the Sky studio, he said: "You have to do your things first and foremost - and hope that the opponent may come with a few percent less." Referring to the recipe for success on Tuesday against a big name - and could serve as a blueprint for opponents Freiburg when it comes to annoying the 1860 heroes in their cup living room on Saturday.
It is already clear that Köllner has to change his successful eleven.
Phillipp Steinhart's body is taking a break (fiber tear, the left-back had already traveled to Saarbrücken in poor health) - it could work with Yannick Deichmann, Steinhart's counterpart on the right side of the defense.
His thigh closed on Tuesday, but that shouldn't prevent the endurance runner from the far north from showing Freiburg's talents tomorrow.
The Lions would do well to act against Freiburg II with the same attitude and intensity as they did when they defeated Schalke.
Otherwise, the next Häme-GIFS shouldn't be long in coming.
