Fortuna Köln: “We’re not looking at the table anymore”
Fortuna Köln are guests at SV Lippstadt on Saturday. After five games without a win, the Cologne team want to get back on the road to success.
Within the last five games has Fortune Cologne destroyed an incredibly good starting position in the promotion race of the Regionalliga West. The people from the south of Cologne have been without a threesome for five matches. The home games against Bonner SC (1:2), VfB Homberg (1:1) and FC Schalke 04 II (2:2) were particularly disappointing. Instead of the nine planted points, Fortuna only got two measly points here. Not enough for Cologne’s ambitions!
Before the brace on Saturday and Wednesday at SV Lippstadt and Rot Weiss Ahlen RevierSport with Stefan PuczynskiSports director of Fortuna, spoken.
Stefan Puczynski, how happy were you about Rot-Weiss Essen’s blunder?
Of course we took it. But feelings were mixed. Because unfortunately we left too much behind to be happy about such a blunder from the competition. We’re not looking at the table at all at the moment. It is important to get back on track.
How is that going to work out in Lippstadt on Saturday?
We need to get a little more structure in our style of play. Good pressing, few ball contacts, keeping the ball on the ground and just playing our thing. It worked incredibly well for a week. I am optimistic that this will work again.
It goes to Lippstadt and Ahlen: two very unpleasant opponents, right?
Definitive. Uncomfortable, but also very different. Lippstadt is a team that plays along. Ahlen is a team that acts very passionately and comes a lot through the fight. We will be asked about that in the next few days. We definitely want to play the games successfully.
Who will coach Alexander Ende be missing at the weekend?
Jean-Marie Nadjombe is with the Togolese national team. Dan-Patrick Poggenberg, Seymour Fünger, Sören Dieckmann and Nico Brandenbuger are injured. There are also a few players missing. But we have a good, broad squad. We must not and will not hide behind any findings.