In Cologne, the location in the promotion struggle is heading to two game days before the end. Although the club is second, the fans loudly air on Saturday evening.
“Struber out, struber out”-so it always echoed through the Rhein-Energie Stadium in Cologne late on Saturday evening. After the 1-1 -lasting SSV Jahn Regensburg, who disappointed in her view, some supporters of the 1st FC Köln were extremely dissatisfied – and they shot at coach Gerhard Struber.
Even though the Austrian is still in second place in the 2nd Bundesliga with the traditional club. With now 55 points, the Cologne team is one counter behind Hamburger SV two match days before the end of the season and three points ahead of the third -placed SC Paderborn.
Purely on paper, it is anything but bad around the “effzeh”, but the mood during and after the playfully dreary performance against the now fixed SSV Jahn feels very different. The fans not only missed their anger on the coach, but also considered their own players with boos.
Timo Hübers was all too much. “We have to leave the church in the village. We pretend that we were in the relegation battle,” criticized the Cologne captain at Sky.
Cologne’s manager Christian Keller consciously presented himself, whose outline was also loudly challenged by some fans. “We wanted to win today and the team also showed that. Unfortunately, it was not possible to score the second goal. The possibilities were abandoned,” was his analysis: “I saw a team who tried everything – in this respect we take it with us today and see that we will get the three points next Friday.”
Then it goes for Cologne to the 1st FC Nürnberg (from 6.30 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online). And despite the sometimes harsh criticism of some fans, coach Struber is likely to sit on the bench again. When asked by a Sky presenter, whether he would “definitely” go through it with Struber, Keller replied: “Why not?”
He also appealed to the supporters to look at the situation a little more sober:
“If everyone thinks that we are still on a promotion zone, a positive energy may be advantageous by the end of the season – to support the team and achieve the goal,” said Keller.
After just one win from the past five games and only 47 goals in 32 games, it should be interesting how the environment will react to it.
