VfB Stuttgart in the cup semi -final: Hoeneß hopes for a liberating effect

The football audience of the Republic had already shown the considerable emotions of a moderately inspiring game in the southwest last Saturday. Mike Tullberg raged at his stand as an interim coach of Borussia Dortmund after the 2-1 win over the Heidenheim Schlossberg that seismologists could have classified him as a Danish volcano.

The emotions from Sebastian Hoeneß did not broke out as explosively on Tuesday evening after moving into the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. But the VfB coach also cheered in the Stuttgart valley after the 1-0 (1-0) against FC Augsburg. Similar to Tullberg, Hoeneß ran into the fan curve after the final whistle. With his lively arm movements, he almost looked like an animator who asked the appendix to participate and asked more noise.

“I just let my feelings run wild. It was not about encouraging, but rather about sharing my emotions with the fans, ”Hoeneß explained his eruption later. To reach the cup round of the last four, especially among the current circumstances, “a great success for VfB Stuttgart – and I let out, nothing more and nothing less”. And now, said Hoeneß, it is clear: “I want to go to Berlin with this team, that would be a dream.” For the cup final on May 24th.

Hoeneß don’t care about his team’s flaws – he describes their lecture as “outstanding” and “ripe”

Hoeneß spoke of a possible “booster” before the game. Now the 42-year-old hopes that a liberating effect will be in his team, in which previously three defeats in a row, including the end of the Champions League, had confidence and some recently load-bearing columns. Like Ameen Al-Dakhil with a thigh strain and the sick Nick Woltemade and Josha Vagnoman. Now Enzo Millot also threatens to fall out. The offensive player had suffered a blessing on the ankle at a foul by the Augsburg Dimitrios Giannoulis in the last campaign of the quarter -finals. There was initially no diagnosis, but the hopes of Stuttgart that milloted can be resounded immediately, it was quite manageable. The Frenchman left the arena limping.

In any case, they are doing a difficult phase at VfB, and whether it really ends through the cup success cannot be said before the most important weeks of the season. On Saturday in Dortmund at the debut of Niko Kovac as a BVB coach, the Stuttgart team is concerned with keeping the competitor at least at least at a distance. This is followed by the also difficult tasks against Wolfsburg, FC Bayern, Leverkusen and in Frankfurt by the end of March. Then the cup semi -final is pending.

Also because of this challenging agenda, they hope that the tedious success against Augsburg will have an encouraging effect. The game of the Stuttgart playing was to look at that the previous disappointments were not long ago. They had started unsettled before using their best phase from the middle of the first half for the decisive goal. As with the 1-0 league victory at the start of the year in Augsburg, Deniz undav demonstrated his coolness again. With an overview, he pushed in after his ball win and a pass from the former Augsburg Ermedin Demirovic after half an hour. However, the German international later accepted the award as “Man of the Match” with self -criticism. “Sometimes a bad performance is enough,” said Undav and criticized “many stick errors, many passport errors”. He was by no means alone with the Stuttgarters.

Hoeneß didn’t care this time. He even described the lecture of his eleven in view of the circumstances. Modestly he said: “I know there will be some out there, they say: ‘Play nicer.’ No, no, not in this game. ”At least the cup season will now be a success in the overall balance, regardless of whether the desired one or even two victories and thus the fourth cup title in club history will be added or not.

At FC Augsburg, on the other hand, they mourn the missed opportunity to reach the semi -finals for the second time in their history. Against the, especially shaky VfB, might have been able to jump out more with more courage in the game than just Mert Kömür’s long -range shot, the only dangerous conclusion of the FCA. “In the end we are out, there is no second chance, and I’m really sorry,” said Jess Thorup. This Danish trainer had dispensed with a very emotional outbreak.