Relief at TSV 1860: Verlaat and Skenderovic shoot happy lions out of the crisis

Created: 10/17/2022, 8:50 am

By: Uli Kellner

The end of an effective performance: 1860 right winger Meris Skenderovic pokes the ball over the goal line to win 2-0 away.

Photo: MiS / B. Feil © MiS / B. Feil

TSV 1860 Munich is back on the road to success.

The lions win 2-0 in Osnabrück - because they remember old virtues.

Osnabrück – A self-sacrificing player was also found for this last important run – as before, when every 1860 professional ran for the other, as Yannick Deichmann noted.

After the final whistle in Osnabrück, bench presser Niklas Lang rushed to the team bus and returned with a crate of beer – the start of a cabin party that is likely to have continued on the Autobahn.

"Nine hours on the bus are so much hotter," said Deichmann.

Jesper Verlaat said: "When you lose, it's always crap, but today we're going home happy with three points." With an important 2-0 away win in our luggage.

"Sixty was very lucky today": Hiller captures Löwen-Sieg in Osnabrück

"We say thank you," sang Marco Hiller & Co, a Flippers hit, as they stomped into the dressing room, where other hits were already rattling out of the Bluetooth box.

The lions were in the best of moods because they emerged victorious from a game in which the opponent had a significant advantage in chances and game shares, but Michael Köllner's team forced the required turnaround with passion, effectiveness and stupidity.

Tobias Schweinsteiger, the coach of the defeated VfL, put it this way: “Because football is a result sport, it robs me of my arguments.

Sixty was very lucky today – and had a very good goalkeeper.”

15:2 corners were on the scoreboard at the end, but the guests took the first corner of the game – it led from the foot of returnee Phillipp Steinhart over Verlaat's head to Osnabrück's 0:1 deficit (7th), which insanely Lasted until Meris Skenderovic fired in a counterattack via Chris Lannert to make it 0-2 eight minutes before the end.

The 75 minutes in between were marked by a headless attack by VfL – and by Löwen, who successfully threw their secondary virtues into the balance.

Köllner's recipe for the away win: "Play aggressively and emotionally"

"The motto for this week was: play aggressively and emotionally," revealed Skenderovic, who played right winger in the 4-3-3 system, and concluded: "We brought the basic principles to the pitch.

We wanted to go all out in the duels.” Deichmann took the new knowledge home with him: “In the 3rd division you always have to get the A .

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tear open.” Or as Verlaat put it: “We forced it a bit today with body language.”

It was also Verlaat who, despite all the joy, talked about nine happy hours in the bus, which had previously gone semi-well on the pitch.

"We make it 1-0, but then completely lost the thread.

Even before half-time we were just swimming at the back," criticized the defense chief: "Of course that's not the route we want to take.

After the 1-0 we stopped playing football.” And yet: “It always feels good to keep a clean sheet.”

"Michael no longer has a voice": Gorenzel represents emotional Köllner at the press conference

Definitely also for Michael Köllner, who also gave everything – in his coaching zone.

"Michael no longer has a voice," said sports director Günther Gorenzel, who represented the hoarse coach at the press conference.

Gorenzel's conclusion: This time the focus was right "right from the start", the performance showed that the team worked "100 percent".

Even starting XI debutant Marius Wörl, 18, surprisingly called up by Köllner in the three-man midfield, fulfilled his task and, like his neighbors, did not avoid a duel.

Gorenzel: "We won the game over to our side because of the combative element and the compactness." And gave an answer to the topic of the autumn crisis.

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Comment on the autumn crisis of TSV 1860: Can coach Michael Köllner turn the tide?

Before the home game against Wiesbaden (Saturday, 2 p.m.), Köllner's team can now turn to football topics in peace.

It is certainly no coincidence that a well-known face was involved in training yesterday (source: dieblaue24): Ex-Löwe ​​Thomas Pledl, 28, was active for Düsseldorf until the summer and has been without a club since then.

170 second division games, eleven goals, 24 assists.

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Not only Skenderovic had noticed: "Unfortunately we weren't that outstanding with the ball.

There's still a lot of room for improvement." (Uli Kellner)