The crisis at Dinamo Dresden is getting worse: at 1: 2 in Mannheim, the relegated second division suffered their second consecutive failure on Saturday and after only one victory in their last six games they have slipped to eighth place. While the fans who had traveled with them questioned the players, coach Markus Anfang continued to express confidence in him.
The players have to explain themselves
Angry, dissatisfied, angry: the mood of the Dinamo fans after the final whistle had many facets. After the renewed defeat there was a need to talk, so much so that the fans whistled to the players at the fence and faced them. Although he was quite warm, he remained calm. Unsurprisingly, the anger among fans was great. After all, Dynamo is currently clearly behind its claims as the bottom of the league table. The gap for a direct promotion post is eight points. Instead of playing at the top, the reality of October 2022 is: mediocrity.
After just six minutes, the SGD conceded 0: 1 in Mannheim after a chain of unfortunate circumstances, less than half an hour later Claudio Kammerknecht very unfortunately scored the ball in his own goal – it was already the Saxons’ third own goal this season. (33.). Sven Müller, who was in goal in place of Stefan Drljaca and therefore made his league debut with Dynamo, could not change things. “The course of the match could not have been harsher today, in fact we should have taken the lead”, said coach Markus Anfang after the game at “MagentaSport” and was dejected: “Mannheim did not shoot in front of goals, while we clearly dominated the game ”.
However, dominating the game is not enough if the goals conceded are too easy, lack of penetration strength in attack and your own goal comes just three minutes from time (Schäffler / 87th). This has been a common thread over the past few weeks. “The boys are very depressed for not being able to get the points they deserved.” However, the coach stressed: “We cannot complain, we must accept it and react”.
support to begin with
Getting the team back on track will continue to be the task of Markus Anfang, who received a vote of confidence from sporting director Ralf Becker immediately after the match: “We believe 100 percent in the coach. For me there is nothing to discuss. We will not ask any fundamental questions, this is out of the question “.
However, the 52-year-old had to admit “we had imagined everything differently and we are not satisfied. But we knew it was going to be a difficult lap after the upheaval.” Becker did not hide the fact that “there is a lot to do at the moment. We mustn’t make fun of ourselves”. The only option now is to work hard and be together. “We have to use every week to improve. There is no magic formula. We have to stay calm.” You have seen that self-confidence is not there at the moment and the last vote is missing. In the locker room, however, there was “good humor”, as Becker pointed out.
Beginning confirmed that: “We are a good group, everyone is willing. Only the results don’t fit.” In order not to lose contact with the promotion seats during the winter break, now we need victories – preferably next Saturday in the home game against SC Freiburg II he wants to put on goal, he said: “Let’s stick together, we’ll make it and get out more strong”.
