TSV 1860: Why new lion Martin Kobylanski is not (yet) working
Munich – The lions, they have a section on their website called “Short roared” with the most important news of the day.
Matching imagery is playmaker Martin Kobylanski screaming and stretching out his fingers. However, the new signing from Eintracht Braunschweig has not yet roared as it should on the pitch.
In the top game of TSV 1860 against FC Ingolstadt 04, the 28-year-old received his next chance of probation in attacking midfield from coach Michael Köllner. The ten could not use them again: Sixty’s head coach took the native Berliner off the field again at the break (AZ rating 5). Now it would be wrong and unfair to pin the bitter 1:2 bankruptcy and the loss of the table lead on the game designer. And yet it is clear: Köllner has a Kobylanski problem.
Without Kobylanski, the lion game got better
“We played football too slowly. This allowed the opponent to sort themselves out again and again,” said Köllner after the first home defeat after five wins in a row: “We played much too statically, then it’s difficult for you to get in front of the goal.” The 52-year-old also used the words “sluggish” and “sluggish” to describe the game in his sixties.
Attributes that should make his players think… Kobylanski is certainly not the only lion who can feel addressed on this day of insufficient game opening, poor combination play and hardly any scoring chances. “It wasn’t a smooth game from us,” criticized Köllner from start to finish. But it’s a hint: Without the barely visible offensive man, things got better in the second round.
“In the second half we brought more speed into play,” said Köllner, who really brought more speed into play with Daniel Wein and Joseph Boyamba instead of Kobylanski and Niklas Lang. “We played one or the other option via set pieces,” said Köllner about the construction site that is normally also Kobylanski’s responsibility.
In short: The playmaker (two goals and two assists in eleven games) didn’t work that day. The question arises: What is the reason – and how can it be improved?
Köllner on Kobylanski: “He’s a bit beside himself”
Illertissen (0:1) Köllner had an attempt at an explanation ready. “Koby was a bit shaken,” he said, and generally protected his kicker: “There are things that no one notices from the outside: He was a bit beside himself because his family was ill. Also his daughter, who he worried about. With a small child, that’s doubly dangerous.”
A fine, human move by Köllner to put Kobylanski’s work into perspective. It was “not a good performance by him”, but in this respect it had “no unique selling point”.
“I’m sticking to it: He was already an important player for us and he will be an important player for us again in the future,” Köllner repeated what he had already put on record: “Koby will be back!”
Now the 52-year-old has to master the challenge stopping the recent downtrend but also not dropping a lion. In addition to the Illertissen-Aus, after the five opening wins in a row, Sixty is also a bit bumpy in the league with only one three, two draws and two bankruptcies.
Ironically, in this dip in performance, the crackers against VfL Osnabrück (A) and SV Wehen Wiesbaden (H) follow.
Two teams who will also field a robust side full of ambition. Whether with or without Kobylanski: “Slow”, “sluggish” and “sluggish”, as Köllner put it, can no longer be afforded if the lion is finally to roar successfully again.
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