Hard days in Salzburger Land
From BZ/dpa
The special Union feeling is not there yet. The Irons are struggling against Bohemians Dublin in the friendly. Coach Urs Fischer announces intensive work in the training camp in Austria for the Berlin Bundesliga team.
keeps Urs Fischer his moderate Saturday mood, the pros from Union Berlin in Austria are facing uncomfortable days. “Modest,” grumbled the coach of the Bundesliga soccer team at a party table with a white roof in the interview zone of the stadium at the Alte Försterei.
Fischer spoke of the performance in the 2-1 win in the friendly against Bohemians Dublin. “Being initiative, acting, being active in the game, that’s what I missed for 90 minutes in total,” said the Swiss about the game against the public cult club.
Also midfield driver Rani Khedira found clear words. “The fans gave us a nice game, we the fans not so much,” he said of the gaping mood-performance gap in front of almost 16,000 fans. “Today we saw a very slow game. If we play like that, it won’t work. That was clearly not enough,” complained Khedira. There is also work to be done in the Alps.
On Monday around noon, the Irons will land in Salzburg by charter jet. From there you can continue by bus to Neukirchen am Großvenediger. The task is for Fischer after a total of four friendlies. “There will be another pack where it’s all about intensity, also conditional aspects, and then we have to keep working on our automatisms, try to give the new players our principles so that they internalize them,” demanded the 56- Years.
As in previous years, Fischer’s task is to create a functioning overall picture in order to bring the Union’s virtues to bear in the fourth Bundesliga year. The risk that this will fail this time after the breathtaking success story with the jump to fifth place in the Bundesliga upper class can still be felt in Köpenick. In principle, there are indestructible residual doubts about the understatement master.
“You’ve already seen when the team is so mixed up that things don’t work as they usually do,” Fischer said, describing the normal situation during the preparation period. Almost half of the 21 players facing Dublin are new to Union or were last on loan. The potential is certainly there, even if the new top striker Jordan Siebatcheu hasn’t scored yet.
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More than 30 players travel to Austria, including the promising young professionals Tim Maciejewski, Laurenz Dehl and Aljoscha Kemlein, who was particularly praised by Fischer. Timo Baumgartl will be missing after his cancer operation and Kevin Möhwald, who is still in corona isolation. There are friendlies on July 15 against Dynamo Budweis and a day later against Udinese Calcio.
Khedira trusts in the Union mechanisms. “Now it is important to use the time intensively, to get automatisms and processes in, so that everyone knows what they have to do, then it will be a round story again,” he said.