On Sunday Dynamo Dresden meets Rot-Weiss Essen. Last season, both teams played one of the most emotional games of the entire season.
While Red and white food In the Lower Rhine Cup, the compulsory task against VfB Hilden (2-0) was unspectacularly solved and celebrated entry into the quarter-finals with two late goals, but the upcoming league opponents conceded Dynamo Dresden a bitter defeat. The favorites lost to the struggling regional league team Chemnitzer FC 1:3 after extra time and had to give up in the third round of the Saxony Cup.
“If you defend the opponent’s standards like that – not only in the 3rd league, but also against a regional league team, then it’s not enough,” criticized the coach Thomas Stamm after the game. Although Dresden is in second place in the 3rd league and also reached the second round of the DFB Cup (2-0 against Fortuna Düsseldorf), things are currently uneasy around the SGD.
Because the trend of the last few weeks is not positive. From the last five competitive games, the regular team only celebrated one win, there were two draws and two defeats. The last three-pointer came on September 25th at SC Verl (3-0).
We continue next Sunday at 1:30 p.m. with the home game against Rot-Weiss Essen. If there is no victory there again, then one could speak of a crisis. The home record against the opponent from North Rhine-Westphalia is encouraging. Dresden has never lost a home game against Essen. The record so far: six games, three wins, three draws.
Dresden – RWE: The last game exceeded all expectations
Many fans will still remember the wild, highly intense last meeting on February 24, 2024: The SGD and RWE 2:2 draw. It was a game that wrote many stories. Dresden played the guests against the wall, had over 30 shots on goal and a corner kick ratio of 18:0, but the offensive players were repeatedly failed by the guest keeper Jakob Golzwho surpassed himself in this game and was awarded a “kicker” grade of 1.5.
Cedric Harenbrock and Thomas Eisfeld were successful for the efficient guests from Hafenstrasse that day with a direct free kick. There was another unpleasant scene in stoppage time: Essen’s defense chief at the time Felix Götze was brutally caught in the head by Dresden’s Jakob Lemmer and had to be transported away with a heavily bleeding laceration. He suffered a mild traumatic brain injury in this action.
This traditional duel was definitely not for the faint of heart. It will be exciting to see whether the new edition on Sunday will offer as much excitement and spectacle again.
