TSV 1860: Bär's race against time - "Can't put the knife on early"
Created: 03/18/2022, 18:53
By: Uli Kellner
Fatherly joy: In the 6-0 win against Freiburg at the end of October, Marcel Bär showed a telltale goal celebration – now the birth of his first child is imminent.
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TSV 1860 is currently riding the wave of success.
One of the guarantors of victory: Marcel Bär.
But the striker is sitting on packed suitcases, his wife is heavily pregnant.
Munich
– Your own team with maximum yield from the last four games.
"Extraordinary", says 1860 coach Michael Köllner, who otherwise only had similar enthusiastic words on Friday for another team in the 3rd division - for Waldhof Mannheim, the opponent in the chasing duel on Sunday.
"Certainly one of the strongest teams in the league," he smeared honey around the mouth of his promotion rivals:
"With a great quality, as we had to experience painfully in the first leg." His team lost there 1:3 - "and Mannheim brutally strengthened again in the winter" (with Sohm, Kother, Butler/ed. Red.).
Köllner's conclusion: "Actually, the match is clear from the start.
Mannheim is the clear favourite.
Schnatterer alone has more second division games than our entire squad.
We're going to have to stretch a lot.
So I would be very happy if we went home with a point.”
TSV 1860: personnel concerns on the offensive
You can now believe Köllner or not.
There was certainly a good portion of tactical understatement involved.
On the other hand, the lions do not travel to the Electoral Palatinate without worries.
In 1860 a lull in the storm threatened, although no one from the attack department was injured.
But: Captain Stefan Lex is serving a yellow card suspension.
And if things go really badly, Marcel Bär, who is sitting on packed suitcases, is also absent because his heavily pregnant wife Ricarda has her due date on Sunday.
"We have to put up with that," said the trainer and joked: "I can neither influence the pregnancy nor administer delaying drugs or use the knife early and give birth to the child by caesarean section."
What the lions can and do offer is a taxi service for the father-to-be.
When asked, Köllner confirmed an option that the blog dieblaue24 had first reported on.
"It's within the realm of possibility that we'll leave him here and he'll follow us on Saturday evening," said Köllner: "It's not over yet.
I hope that everything will remain calm and that Marcel and his wife will concentrate on the international break afterwards."
TSV 1860: Niki Lang is fit again
Köllner is more concerned about the loss of his captain due to a yellow card.
"We don't have a player who plays identically to Stefan Lex," regrets the coach: "His absence is tough for us - especially when you see how the fifth yellow card came about.
Other players have to jump into the breach with euphoria.
We have to absorb that as a team.”
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Good news for 1860: Niklas Lang, who was called up to the German U20s for the first time, is fit again.
And: Despite all the enthusiasm for SV Waldhof, Köllner also has a lot of confidence in his own team.
He says: "The chassis we're currently running on seems well tuned." Also for the game on Sunday, about the importance of which he says: "We don't have to exaggerate it unnecessarily.
It's one of 38 games where you have a chance to get three points.
And it doesn't matter what the result is – it doesn't have a major impact on the course of the season.” But all the more so on the mood in the upcoming international and soccer cup breaks.
(Uli Kellner)