Second division football team Hannover 96 has concluded its training camp in Austria with a sense of achievement.

The Lower Saxons won the preparation tournament in St. Johann on Sunday. First they defeated the Polish first division team Gornik Zabrze with the former German international Lukas Podolski with 3:0, followed by a 1:0 against the Bundesliga team 1. FC Köln. Each match lasted 45 minutes.

He did not want to overrate the tournament victory, said 96 coach Stefan Leitl, but he had “seen many good things”. For him, it was “not about the significance of the victory, but about how we behave when we are leading or trailing”, the 45-year-old explained.

Against Zabrze, the clearly superior 96ers had taken the lead through a Polish own goal in the sixth minute. The Norwegian striker Havard Nielsen (20./45.+1) scored the other goals in front of a good 2000 spectators. Podolski was not used against 96, only in the second game against his ex-club Cologne. Cedric Teuchert (36th) scored for Hannover against the cathedral city.

It was a “really good training camp”, Leitl summed up. His team will start the new second division season on 29 July against the promoted SV Elversberg.