Arminia Bielefeld will be hosting MSV Duisburg on Saturday. More than 3000 DSC fans will be there.
After a mixed start to the season, Arminia Bielefeld is gradually picking up speed. Before coach Michel Kniat’s team takes on MSV Duisburg on Saturday afternoon (4:30 p.m., RS-Liveticker), it collected four points from its last two games.
First there was the 2:2 against the U23 of Borussia Dortmund, then followed the 3:1 liberation against Waldhof Mannheim. With the sense of achievement behind them, DSC can look forward to great support from their own fans at the guest game in Duisburg.
More than 3000 Bielefelders will support Arminia in the guest area on Saturday. Initially, the club had received 3850 tickets, but due to the high demand, the contingent was increased to 3350 tickets at the beginning of this week.
Most of them were already sold on Thursday. The number of supporters traveling with the team was “of course crass, especially when you hear that we still had to reorder tickets,” said coach Kniat at the press conference on Thursday. “That makes us very happy and shows that with the recently shown performances can take a positive momentum. For us, it’s outstanding to know that we can totally rely on our fans. “
At the same time, the coach stressed that it would now be important to follow up in Duisburg. “We want to continue to extend this small series and follow up away from home. Only then can we refine the three points from last week.” That would require at least a similar performance to the one against Mannheim recently.
Unlike Bielefeld, MSV was match-free last weekend. Before that, the Zebras celebrated their first win of the season (1:0 against Unterhaching), but then promptly made a fool of themselves in the Lower Rhine Cup against KFC Uerdingen (0:1) on the debut of new coach Boris Schommers.
The Bielefeld team followed Duisburg’s performance in the cup – and they are prepared for “several scenarios,” as Kniat explained. “But you can never prepare for everything. But we should also concentrate and focus on ourselves and our strengths and then make the appropriate adjustments for each opponent. Then, in the best case scenario, we can also push through our game. “