0:4 against KSC sounds worse than it was.
Sunday morning I wake up with a song in my head that I'm listening to Reeperbahn Festival first heard. “Sometimes I wonder how we landed in a mess like this” is what the song by the French band The Dø says.
It's unfortunate, for example, that the same man on the sideline sees the offside of Verhoek's wonderful bicycle kick goal, but not the pass before Karlsruhe made it 1-0. Every team has a hard time against deep four-man chains in a two-man formation. Experience has shown that FC St. Pauli is particularly special. Especially at a time when playmakers are in short supply due to injuries.
In the second half, coach Meggle focused more on attack and the efforts were almost rewarded. Nobody could have guessed that the assistant referee received a tutorial about offside during the half-time break.
Of course it wasn't a good game on Saturday. Somehow the players mentally seemed slower than the Karlsruhe team.
By the time the KSC players were lying on the ground with cramps, it was clear that they would still score at least one goal. For every Sankt Pauli supporter, the 3-3 scorer in the 104th minute by Florian Lechner, who was just crawling on the floor, can be recalled at any time as a brain video in the back of his mind, which revitalized the Millerntor in December 2005 with new hopes and ultimately led to success in the DFB Cup against Hertha BSC.
It was unfortunate that St. Pauli besieged Karlsruhe's goal, but KSC managed to score goals on the few counter-attacks. 0:4 is more a result of risk than it really reflects how the game went.
The only thing that was bad, of course, was how many spectators left the stadium after the 80th minute. Especially in the main stand. Hopefully they don't have a ticket for the DFB Cup game on Tuesday, otherwise I fear that the stadium will be half empty from the 35th minute onwards.
Oh, what am I talking about: everything will be better on Tuesday! BVB is the clear favorite and anything under 0:5 can be considered a success. Freed, FC St. Pauli will show what it can really do.
However, FC St. Pauli is also known as a helper for struggling teams. It remains exciting...
Beautiful pictures, beautiful words and a very beautiful song. Thanks!!
When I see the introduction with “unfortunately lost” I don’t really want to read what the article says.
For me, an unfortunate loss is a defeat despite a superior game.
Get off the sidelines. Let's deduct a goal from KSC and give ourselves one. Then in my opinion it should be 1:3. That's not a victory either! And before the answer comes that the goal had a psychological effect, I have to ask whether the players are paid to play football or to play mind games.
And I wouldn't describe our sluggish switching, the constant fumbling around in the opponent's half and a lousy passing game with only a few and far too weak chances in the end as pressure! Especially since half of them were from a distance out of necessity.
I think it's better than no chances at all, but that's not enough!
There are good approaches, but they still need to be developed significantly further and until then I don't have to talk my shit out of it and blame it on referees! It was just bad!
As a steward, I stood at the stairs to G1-1 from the middle of the first half and thought I was crazy when so many people suddenly came down there after the 3-0 defeat. I had just chatted and at first I thought the game was already over. But then I looked at the clock and realized that that couldn't be right yet. Hello?! It wasn't possible, how many people did it. I was so angry that I was about to stand in everyone's way and yell at them... So it wasn't just the HT that was emptying, but also the seating area in the GG. Even people who I never thought would leave before the end of the game came to meet me... 🙁
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By the way, the picture of the game for me is the one with the bunker. As soon as I walked into the stadium I noticed that something looked strange, that something was bothering me, that the usual sight was different than usual - and at first I thought that it was the Kiezhelden banner, which was strategically very well placed – because you will soon have a much clearer view of it.
But it wasn't, and I noticed that shortly afterwards... What really irritated me was that the city started demolishing the TV tower a week before the north was torn down - very slowly, starting from the top... And just in time for kick-off he was completely gone.
I haven't had this intensity in a long time - of course, when it's hazy or raining, the top tends to disappear in the fog - but at some point the lower part was completely gone and no longer visible - which you can only guess from your photo , unfortunately it is still easily visible. It was a bit irritating, the view of the north - with the bunker, but without the tower behind it - something was missing in the shilouette. A good exercise for the time after the Dortmund game...
Great pictures, great atmosphere. Very nicely photographed. I'm slowly becoming a fan of FC St. Pauli, where our current goalkeeper (Bene/Sturm Graz) played!
If you do it based on him, at least you won't have the problem of getting a cliched image of the FCSP. :O)
But what I actually wanted to say: Gröni, your blog is still running on summer time. 😉
Thanks for the tip about summer time. I thought at least the automation would work online :)
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