MSV Duisburg is currently beyond good and evil in the 3rd division table. The advantage: MSV can actually already start planning for the third division in 23/24.

30 points after 24 games: MSV Duisburg is nine points ahead of the first relegation place and ten points behind third place, which would entitle them to relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga.

Of course, with 14 matchdays to go, theoretically everything is still possible – in both directions. But the Duisburg team wanted to experience a quiet series again after two nail-biting seasons. And the plan is working. That is also an advantage for the 2023/2024 planning.

“In purely mathematical terms, everything is still possible. But of course we have to approach the new season, plan and hold talks. When we talk about new arrivals, we want to improve the team. It is easier to talk to the players when you are successful,” emphasises coach Torsten Ziegner.

The 45-year-old also revealed that there have already been some conversations with potential new MSV professionals. Ziegner: “We are in talks. But nothing has been signed yet. Accordingly, there is currently nothing to communicate. “

Looking at the table makes the boys, in inverted commas, angry. I notice that in my communication with the players. The gap to the top is too big for the boys.

Torsten Ziegner

Secretly, Ziegner seems to still have his eye on the train towards the 2nd Bundesliga. Because he also revealed, before the game in Oldenburg, what the mood in the team is like. After all, at the beginning of March, MSV felt like they were in no-man’s land in the table.

“Looking at the table makes the boys, in inverted commas, angry. I notice that in my communication with the players. The gap to the top is too big for the boys. They know that they can do better in terms of quality. We can make sure that we climb a few more places ourselves. We want to start with a win in Oldenburg,” says Ziegner.

On Sunday (2 p.m., RevierSport live ticker), MSV Duisburg will travel to VfB Oldenburg.