Defeat of TSV 1860 Munich: Whistles and angry screams – sport
Maybe the party on Tuesday evening in the Grünwalder Stadium was the last of the year, which took place in front of an audience in Munich. But the sixties down on the field must have longed for a ghost game: Whistles and angry screams could be heard from three sides, plus cheers from the guest block.
It has been a long time since the lions were played in front of a home crowd like in this catch-up game against Waldhof Mannheim – a game on which the hope was that the sixties would transfer their own claims to the table. Instead, they stagnate after the 1: 3 (0: 2) defeat in midfield. Although the team was able to improve significantly in the second half, but the defensive performance raised the question of whether the team is actually well enough staffed for the promotion battle; and left-back Phillipp Steinhart will also be absent on Saturday against leaders Magdeburg because of his fifth yellow card. “We played a bad first half and we couldn’t handle the wind either,” commented coach Michael Köllner at Magentasport.
As the game went on, the uncertainty of the sixties became more and more visible, but it was visible for the first time after half a minute: Central defender Semi Belkahia made his first mistake, but goalkeeper Marco Hiller was still able to iron out. Apart from the fact that Belkahia cleared a ball on the line once (17th), the 22-year-old was completely out of the role, allowed himself to be overrun repeatedly and had coordination problems with neighbor Stephan Salger.
Ironically, the Mannheim lead fielded immediately after the best chance in the sixties, when Salger did not fully hit the ball in a turmoil in the opponent’s penalty area (12th) – on the other side, just seconds later, veteran Marc Schnatterer pulled away from the edge of the box and hit the cross corner perfectly ( 13.). Seven minutes later Dominik Martinovic – a humiliating goal that Mannheim’s Marco Höger had brought on the way after a corner kick with a heel on the fiver (20th).
Only at the break does Köllner take the completely overwhelmed Belkahia off the field
Attack after attack rolled into the Munich penalty area, but coach Michael Köllner looked at the helplessness of his team for a long time apparently emotionless. Only at the break did he take the completely overwhelmed Belkaia off the field and replace him with Quirin Mollh – not an ideal solution in view of the fast Mannheim attackers, the 30-year-old golds neither as sprint nor as strong, he was last on the bench.
However, Moll Salger were surprisingly and hardly challenged. Sixty suddenly shifted the game to the opposing half. Initially, the deals were still unlucky – Richard Neudecker just missed (49th), Merveille Biankadi very clearly (62nd), duration in the 66th minute but the lions down on the field should have wished for the stadium to be right up to the last seat filled. Neudecker pulled flat and rather harmless from a distance, but the ball slipped through Mannheim’s keeper Timo Königsmann. With the 1: 2 the game suddenly became exciting and heated, Schnatterer took on opponents, coach Köllner and the audience, a tactical theater that apparently only threw Mannheimer himself off the hook. In any case, Anton-Leander gave Donkor a slapstick-like hand penalty (72nd). The substitute Keanu Staude then put the ball on the spot somewhat surprisingly – and forgave with a weak shot (73rd).
“We left clear things behind at the back,” said Köllner angrily, saying that the game could possibly have been turned around. But Mannheim countered the grim but harmless attacks of the sixties in stoppage time with a goal after a three-on-one situation, Martinovic overpowered Hiller to make a decision. Then it was in the stadium. Probably for a long time.