Friendly matches – Heavy defeats for three teams, Fürth beats Bundesliga club

Thursday’s friendly matches went very differently for the second division teams involved. One trio, for example, suffered heavy defeats.

Phew, that was nothing for Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Magdeburg, and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The three second division teams played test matches on Thursday, October 9, and suffered heavy defeats.

Karlsruhe got the worst of it. They were thrashed 7-0 by SC Freiburg. Igor Matanovic, Anthony Jung, Nicolas Höfler, Lukas Kübler, Derry Scherhant with a brace, and Yuito Suzuki scored for Freiburg. “The general consensus is not to make any rash decisions and to take time for analysis. Of course, Markus Fiedler is our coach and the review has been carried out with Markus,” said FCM sporting director Otmar Schork recently at a media roundtable with the second division’s bottom club, emphasizing: “There is no deadline.”

However, the first game after the job guarantee went completely wrong. Against Eintracht Braunschweig, a league rival, they suffered a 0-6 defeat. In addition, 1. FC Kaiserslautern went down 0-4 at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

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Holstein Kiel (0-2 against Aarhus GF) and league leaders SV Elversberg (0-2 against VfB Stuttgart) also lost.

However, two second division teams emerged victorious. Dynamo Dresden secured a 5-1 win against third division team Jahn Regensburg. SpVgg Fürth defeated Bundesliga club 1. FC Heidenheim 1-0.

VfL Bochum completed the field of second division teams, drawing 3-3 with Alemannia Aachen. “My conclusion is mixed. We scored three goals and used all our players: that’s positive. Everyone had their chance. The fact that the strikers scored is good for their confidence. What is regrettable is that we were leading 3-1 and, ten minutes before the end, regardless of whether you make substitutions, we didn’t manage to see the game out. We need to work on that in training. It could also happen that we take the lead against Hertha, and then we’ll have to throw everything at them to win the game. In one or two situations, I felt we lacked freshness and awareness of how important a win would have been,” said new VfL coach Uwe Rösler, commenting on his first game.