1. FC Nürnberg in Magdeburg: A week for connoisseurs

There is always something at the club. Either the team is in the constant low of performance, the coaching chair wobbles, the cash register is threatening or the fans desire against the board. It is not uncommon in the past sixty, seventy years of several of these scenarios even took place at the same time. How beneficial may have been for the fans of the 1st FC Nürnberg this week, in which the economic record was brought up not only by spectacular and, above all, lucrative transfers. There is also no reason to complain, especially since the Franks after the 1-0 win a week ago against Darmstadt last Saturday spectacularly ended their away misery of four defeats in series: 4: 3 decided the exciting game at the 1st FC Magdeburg for himself and climbed back into the upper half of the second division for the first time in nine game days.

“It was an exciting game for the audience. There were many switching campaigns, it went up and down, ”said Nuremberg coach Miroslav Klose, who is largely responsible for the upswing of the young team with four victories in the last five games, not least because he always strengthened her and now Obviously also better conveyed his idea of ​​football. However, one can speculate excellently whether only his sounding name saved him the job when the team remained victorious in series six times in November and December and sometimes delivered badly bleak performances.

With the misery at the time, the performance on Saturday in Magdeburg had nothing in common: the clubberers were initially good at the back and remained freezing cold at the front, for example at early lead by Ondrej Karafiat, who used a flank from Julian Justvan to lead (5th). Magdeburg came to equalize through Marcus Mathisen with a directly converted free kick (27th) before Robin Knoche scored for the Franks just three minutes later. The guests were now in the flow, another three minutes later Rafael Lubach, who had previously got the penalty to 1-2, served Jens Castrop, the end of the future Gladbacher was resolved by two Magdeburgers, most recently by Jean Hugonet – 1: 3 , the halftime score.

In the end, coach Klose would have been satisfied with the 3: 3: “But my team believed in it.”

The ambitious hosts threw everything forward after the break, Klose later said that his Nurembergers now had to “work more against the ball and suffer more”. They did the stoically and drove fire -dangerous counterattacks. But two inattentions of the Franks within six minutes when Martijn Kaars first met after a corner kick (72nd) and then the previous own goalkeeper Hugonet (78th), Magdeburg brought back into the game. And when the FCM was on it, Klose’s team had the crucial punch line ready: Janis Antieste, winter loan player from Sassuolo, continued by hoe, Justvan left goalkeeper Dominik Reimann no chance of defense, the 3: 4 in the fourth minute of stoppage time.

The Nuremberg were completely out of the house after the game: “Despite the compensation, we believed that we got the chance of winning,” said defender Knoche. Signs of winning Justvan found the decisive counterattack “really nice”. And coach Klose summed up: “I would also have signed the 3: 3. But my team believed in it and kept countering. The energy was easy to feel in the team. ”Accordingly, the otherwise mostly controlled former goal scorer looked solved:“ It is fun if you can score three points out of such a playful opponent. ”