Things are not going well at Arminia Bielefeld. On Tuesday evening, DSC lost the East Westphalia derby at SC Verl. Captain Fabian Klos criticized the team and the referee.
Arminia Bielefeld’s mixed start to the season has now turned into a serious crisis. The relegated team lost 1:3 to SC Verl in the East Westphalia derby on Tuesday evening.
It was the next low point after the 2:6 home defeat against 1. FC Saarbrücken last weekend. With only eight points from nine games, the Bielefeld team has slipped into a relegation spot.
Captain and veteran Fabian Klos was clearly frustrated after the defeat in Verl. “If you’ll forgive me, I’m not doing any game analysis here now. I just don’t want to do that now, we have to do that internally,” said the striker, who had scored the interim connection to 1:2 (63.), when he was asked on “MagentaSport” about the cause of the defeat.
Oliver Batista Meier had given Verler the lead early on (6th), and Nico Ochojski followed up shortly before the break (42nd). After Klos scored to tie the game up, Yari Otto made it 3:1 in the final phase (80.).
Klos went into an incendiary speech: “That can’t be our standard as a team, that we lose on a Tuesday night in Verl,” the 35-year-old was annoyed. At the same time, he said, the team had been given a “very clear plan” by Michel Kniat’s coaching team. “And at the moment you just have to say, we don’t manage as players to implement this plan, which we go through two, three, four times before the game.”
Klos added that there are “all kinds of reasons for that,” “and every single person in there knows the reasons. You don’t know them, you won’t know them now, because we have to discuss this internally.”
However, the cult striker did not only criticize his team. He also took issue with the performance of the referee. Because immediately before the 0:1 Klos saw a post-kicking of Torge Paetow against him. “The pictures speak for themselves,” said Klos, who, like all Bielefeld players, would have liked to see Verl sent off. “Of course I block him, but everything that happens after that doesn’t belong on the pitch.”
He also felt the Bielefeld side was at a disadvantage when it came to the 1:3. “The ball was broken, that’s why our player stopped. We pointed it out to the linesman four times and kicked the ball out of bounds. Then Verl gets a throw-in and it’s 1:3.”
Still, Klos spoke of a “deserved win” for Verl. “That’s where we’re needed as a team now and we have to improve significantly.” The next chance to do so comes on Saturday (2 p.m.). Arminia will then host the in-form second team of Borussia Dortmund.