“Defend high and control the game”

KREIS GROSS-GERAU – With two home and two away games, the curtain rises on the first Sunday in March for the four domestic football group leagues to continue the remaining round.

VfR Groß-Gerau – FC Fürth (3:30 p.m.): After a preparatory phase with ups and downs, coach Gaetano Bauso is happy that the second half of the season will continue. “There were always a lack of players, and every test match took place in the rain or wind,” Bauso vents his dissatisfaction, but remains ambitious nonetheless: “Our goal is to stay up there and strike if Fehlheim slips up.” With one The VfR coach doesn’t expect an easy task on Sunday, as a new coach (Miroslav Savanovic) and a number of new players have come to Fürth. It is positive for him that the entire squad will be available. Bauso is aware that his team is the favorite and cannot afford to lose points in the promotion race.

TSV Höchst – SV 07 Geinsheim (3:30 p.m.): After the 0:3 defeat in Fehlheim, SV 07 has the next difficult task to solve with the game in the Odenwald. “Games in Höchst are always complicated on a deep pitch,” says player coach Florian Auer, who shares responsibility with Kim Ginkel. The duo shows respect for the stable TSV defense, “and Höchst also has a dangerous switching game and is very effective in converting chances,” says Auer. However, the good performance over long distances in Fehlheim gives hope for success. “We didn’t allow much,” praises Auer. The basis should again be defensive stability, but Auer/Ginkel plan to act more offensively on Sunday. While Maximilian Maier is back in the squad, Thorsten Steinmetz is absent (privately prevented). Samuel Sorge and Nikolai Krimphove have started training.

SV 07 Nauheim – FV Mümling-Grumbach (3:00 p.m.): Four wins and only one defeat, once not conceding a goal: “Actually, the preparation was very good,” says Markus Cube, who forms Nauheim’s coaching duo with Jonas Schuster. Only the dress rehearsal against FC Bierstadt, which was canceled due to a lack of players, clouds the balance somewhat. Cube and Schuster also see some question marks when it comes to the nomination of the squad that is supposed to start the new year’s game on Sunday. Yasin Kapucu and Jan Gerlach are ill, Tino Fuhrmann has bursitis and his arm is therefore in a cast, Abdelilah Syah was unable to train recently due to an ankle injury, Norman Harth is behind in training. Jakob Stein (vacation) and Julian Staiger (knee problems) are definitely not there. At the same time, the coaches expect the team to go into the home game “with a lot of confidence”, says Cube. A win against the table penultimate should be a must.

Hassia Dieburg – SKV Büttelborn (15.15): The guests want it better than in the last friendly against Kastel in the first game of 2022 in the table 16, which is threatened with relegation and has only won four times. do. In recent years, Büttelborn has won clearly against Dieburg, most recently in November 5-1 after falling behind early on. Nevertheless, full concentration should be the premise, because in view of the difficult games to come, a good start in the remaining round would be extremely important for the young SKV team.