VfL Denklingen: "It's getting more and more critical now"
Created: 03/10/2022, 17:44
By: Oliver Rabuser
Close your eyes and see through: things are not going well for captain Dominik Karg (in red, here against Neuhadern's Dennis Peterssen) and his VfL Denklingen.
© Oliver Rabuser
VfL Denklingen also lost the home game against FC Neuhadern.
Nevertheless, there is still hope for an upswing, because there are signs of an improvement in personnel.
Denklingen – The bottom of the club's recent history stretches further and further into a joyless autumn.
VfL Denklingen is currently unable to impose its game on opponents in the football district league.
After the 1-0 home defeat against FC Neuhadern on Saturday, coach Markus Ansorge repeated certain statements from the past few weeks for the first time without making the coach any less credible.
Nevertheless, the crisis management is now also affecting the first offshoots of the relegation battle.
"It's getting more and more critical now," says Ansorge, explaining the acceleration mechanism of the downward spiral.
With the exception of his face, the 55-year-old was completely covered in a hat and training clothes.
As if he wanted to hide.
Only in front of whom?
The critics?
The relegation specter?
Or just from a disgusting, gusty autumn wind that sprayed about the same level of uncanniness as the current status at VfL.
"I'm convinced that we'll get out of this together," says Ansorge in a tone of conviction.
As one of the reasons he cites the return of Michael Stahl and Armin Sporer, which is getting closer.
However, the two players alone cannot correct the ballast that has accumulated over the past few weeks.
The insecurity in the team cannot be overlooked and extends to all parts of the team.
Goalkeeper Manuel Seifert once put a teammate under pressure with an ill-considered pass, Benjamin Maass slipped a simple cross pass over the slipper and rarely found a suitable addressee for the vertical passes from Moritz Hemkendreis.
And when it was essential, Dominik Karg was negligent with a big chance.
Also striking were the many long and high balls, all of which were blown away by the wind, especially in the final phase.
Ansorge pointed out again at the break that this was not the appropriate stylistic device.
"I don't know why we play so many of them either.
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The elaboration on goal chances was correspondingly manageable.
Andreas Schiessl narrowly missed twice in the first section, Karg forced keeper Simon Hehnen to fly.
It was also Karg who was sent off steeply from his own half by Simon Ried, but set the shot too high.
"Everything is so semi-shared, nothing compelling," judged the coach.
Overall, the guest had the clearer options.
Mainly Quirin Juergens.
He just missed the long corner of the goal with a volley before he rushed alone to Seifert after a positional error and fell on his – admittedly withdrawn – leg.
Instead of a penalty and worse for Seifert, there was only a corner kick.
Ansorge castigated FCN's winning goal as "indicative of our situation".
Nothing that should have happened.
An attack down the right flank, a pass to the middle and a shot that went right next to Seifert.
"Defensively, we actually did well," said the coach.
"But in the second half we gave Neuhadern too much space and didn't get into the duels like that."
Statistics:
VfL Denklingen 0
FC Neuhadern 1
Goals: 0:1 (76th) Bündgens.
Yellow cards: Denklingen 3, Neuhadern 3. Referee: Ronny Schmidt.
Spectators: 100.