TSV Peißenberg: A Maundy Thursday to cry

Created: 04/13/2022, 15:00

By: Christian Heinrich

It's time to really get going: Elias Graf (left, here in the preliminary round game against Miesbach) and TSV Peißenberg will face direct competition in the table basement in the coming days.

© Roland Halmel

The district league duel between FC Bad Kohlgrub and TSV Peißenberg increases on Maundy Thursday - and given the table situation, it fits the occasion of the day.

Peißenberg – It cannot be a coincidence that the league management has scheduled the catch-up game between FC Bad Kohlgrub and TSV Peißenberg for Maundy Thursday (6 p.m.) of all days.

As is well known, it does not get its name from the color green, which could still be associated with hope, but from the Middle High German word "greinen", which means something like crying.

The situation in which the two opponents find themselves is also hilarious.

The football club is bobbing on the last place in the district league 1 and has not won a single point in 15 matches.

Peißenberg is penultimate, and his twelve points are too few to live and too many to die.

"We're not exactly bursting with self-confidence," admits Florian Heringer that the misery is now gnawing at the souls of his players.

The TSV coach has had a truly terrible record.

His team has lost all of the past seven matches.

The last victory dates from last year and seems like an eternity ago.

On September 25, his team won 4:3 at TSV Sauerlach.

Before that, his team suffered another six bankruptcies and won twice on the pitch and once on the green table: against Bad Kohlgrub of all places.

TSV Peißenberg meets Bad Kohlgrub on Maundy Thursday

Heringer does not have to look far for reasons for the dry spell.

"Important top performers were missing," he points out that the holiday season in summer and numerous injured or Corona-ill players ensured that the team was never able to warm up properly.

It wasn't the motivation of the staff.

Only against ASV Habach did TSV concede a swatter with 0:7, which corresponds to its standings.

"We lost most games by a goal or two," Heringer notes, noting that his ensemble was usually not that far from getting something worth counting.

"But we weren't that clever and callous in some situations," admits the coach.

That will not change at the push of a button.

In the most recent 2:3 defeat against the reserves of the state league team TuS Holzkirchen, the Peißenbergers gave themselves the goals again.

Experienced, Heringer is well aware that his team's development has taken on a momentum of its own that can hardly be stopped.

More than the relegation hardly seems to be possible for the TSV.

Unless the relegation candidate manages a coup over the Kar and Easter days, as he has only experienced once this season: he wins two games in a row.

"Six points, then it's our turn to polling," is the coach's calculation for the two games against Bad Kohlgrub and Waldram, in order to reestablish contact with midfield.

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However, it cannot be said whether the task at the bottom of the table will be easier than that at the third from bottom on Easter Monday.

Bad Kohlgruber themselves made ASV Habach sweat on Palm Sunday and narrowly lost 2:3.

The small high at the bottom is linked to Simon Ollert, who has recently been helping his team in the relegation battle.

"We have to get him under control," Heringer hopes that his defense can neutralize the opposing playmaker.

If not, there is a risk of defeat even in Bad Kohlgrub, which would probably give the already battered self-confidence of his kickers the last rest.

And that would be, for the occasion of the day, really hilarious.