New year, new courage, new confidence. Despite the shortest winter break of all time, St. Pauli trainer Timo Schultz wants to free the heads of his Kiez kickers from the mental legacy of the past year and is proclaiming a new start according to the motto: Tick off, tackle! But before the big start into the football year 2021 with three games in seven days and against two top teams, the Kiezkicker continue to grapple with old worries.
The Kiezkickers should save themselves the look at the table and the statistics, if it is to be something with the “little restart” that Schultz spoke of in the run-up to the training on New Year’s Day, also the penultimate unit before the game at Greuther Fürth On Sunday.
FC St. Pauli: Schultz calls for a restart before the game in Fürth
St. Pauli urgently needs a sense of achievement and even more urgent points. Three points behind a non-relegation place with one game less is already a mortgage that creates pressure.
The start is tough. Three days after the game in third place in the table, Fürth, the Kiezkicker play the catch-up game at the bottom of the table, Würzburg, where a win is almost a must, before Holstein Kiel visits Millerntor three days later.
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A kick-off program that not only makes many fans feel queasy in the stomach area.
At best, good performance and at least four points in this three-pack can be an initial spark; at worst, further failures can start a new downward spiral. St. Pauli has only played twelve of 34 games and 66 points are still to be awarded, but there are legitimate concerns that the Kiezklub could lose touch with the safe shore early on.
FC St. Pauli for ten games without a win
The fact that St. Pauli has been without a win for ten games, has only won once in this season and has not landed a single three-point outside of Hamburg in the entire last calendar year – all of this must now be out of our heads.
St. Pauli coach Timo Schultz sprayed confidence before the league starts again.
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“We have decided to shake the old year out of our clothes and go into the next games with more confidence and optimism,” says the coach, who, despite being 17th and only eight points so far, has the full support of sports director Andreas Bornemann.
Schultz has full support from Bornemann
Schultz hopes that his players will be able to tick off all the negatives of the last few months “and say: It will all start again from scratch.” And: “In 2021 everything will be different and everything better.” Confidence and self-confidence through autosuggestion.
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In addition, the coaching team has changed some processes in everyday training, such as meeting times or length of stay on Kollaustraße, in order to break “this rut” (quote from Schultz), “to set new stimuli and sharpen the senses”.
St. Pauli changes processes, sets “new stimuli”
In view of the mini winter break, there is simply not enough time to change the fundamentals or even to rehearse something new, says Schultz. “It wasn’t all bad now, what we did in the first twelve games.” He is still convinced of the quality of his team. “We have good boys.”
