They could no longer be stopped: The Echingen footballers – here Maximilian Mayer (l.) in a duel with Walpertskirchen's Florian Baumann – ensured clear conditions in the first half hour. © Dominik Findelsberger
"The joy is huge!" The footballers of TSV Eching have secured the championship in the Kreisliga 2 ahead of schedule. The race for second place will be exciting.
County – The relegation is finally forgotten – the footballers of TSV Eching are back in the district league! After the 2-0 win at SV Walpertskirchen, the championship in the Kreisliga 2 and thus the promotion can no longer be taken away from the Zebras. Meanwhile, TSV Allershausen are close to promotion relegation after a 1-0 win against Unterbruck.
SV Walpertskirchen – TSV Eching 0:2 (0:2). Huge jubilation in Eching! Only one year after the bitter relegation from the district league, the Zebras have managed to get back up immediately. Two matchdays before the end of the season, they have already been crowned champions. It was clear in advance that a threesome would bring the decision. And the Echinger kickers didn't let anything burn at the guest performance in the district of Erding and set the course for victory early on.
With the vociferous TSV supporters behind them and, above all, thanks to a well-adjusted team (head of department Peter Hanrieder: "Great praise to our coaching team"), it was clear from the first minute in which direction the game would go. Although Walpertskirchen is considered one of the strongest teams in the league, it also has one of the most dangerous attackers in its ranks with Christian Käser and is also eyeing the promotion relegation rank. But coach Josef Heilmeier's team couldn't do anything against this Echinger team - and after just 30 minutes the matter was actually clear. "They worked us cleanly," Heilmeier admitted.
TSV scored the important goal in the eighth minute: After a pass into the top, Daniel Amannsberger loaded another opponent and then executed dryly from a good 17 meters into the corner. And the Echinger soon followed suit - after a buttery free kick from 40 meters, Dino Tadic rose highest in the penalty area and nodded in to make it 2-0 (21st). Subsequently, the Echinger played it especially strong in defence: Both Florian Kappauf and Jan Strehlow stood like a rock in the defensive surf. The biggest chance in the second round was missed by Christopher Trautmann – but in the end nobody was interested in that anymore. "The joy is huge. Now it's time to celebrate," Hanrieder issued as a party order. Report will follow!
TSV Allershausen – FCA Unterbruck 1:0 (0:0). "Yes, the chances are now relatively good that we will finish second in the standings." Philipp Jordan, head of division at the Allershausener Kickers, was quite satisfied after the 90 minutes. On the one hand, his team had just narrowly won the derby and ultimately regained second place ahead of FC Moosinning II (blundered on Saturday in a 2-2 draw against Kirchasch) and Walpertskirchen. On the other hand, the approximately 250 spectators were offered a really decent game on Friday evening, in which the smarter team won in the end. "Looking at the 90 minutes, we perhaps had the better chances and therefore deserved to decide the game in our favour," said Jordan, summing up the ampertal duel, which lived little from the usual derby noddings.
And it was a game that was decided by a curious goal: Three minutes after the start of the second half, Allershausen's Dario Turkman fired a rather harmless googly shot at the Unterbruck box, which then bounced off Marc Gundel's foot and finally found its way into the FCA goal (48th). As a result, the visitors increased the pressure, but more than a few half-chances for goalgetter Andreas Hohlenburger did not jump out. As a result, Allershausen is now back in front of the crazy three-way battle. Also curious: Moosinning II played for a long time under "ferner laufen". However, since the FCM first team has a real chance of finishing second in the Bezirksliga Ost again, the relegation place in the Kreisliga will now also be exciting for the reserves.
SV Kranzberg – TSV Wartenberg 3:0 (2:0). Once it works, it just runs. Not so long ago, the Kranzberger Kicker were one of the big problem children of the league. What followed after the winter break, however, was a gigantic run: The men around coach Anton Kopp celebrated six victories in eight games.
Against Wartenberg, Kranzberg was now extremely effective and turned five chances into three goals. At 1-0 there was a bit of luck at first, a tight pass from Daniel Mömkes deflected Hannes Schmidt into his own goal (7th). But SVK soon followed suit, a Holmeier corner was converted by Levi Peis from close range (17th). The victory in the penultimate home game of the season was finally secured shortly after the substitution: After a wide shot from keeper Fabian Köppl, Sebastian Schredl was up and away from the outside - and his pass found a grateful buyer in Thomas Kopp (52nd).
