Just over half a year ago, Hannover 96’s second division team played in Osnabrück and embarrassed themselves with a 0-1 defeat. On Saturday, 96 is back at the Bremer Brücke – with the U23s.
VfL was relegated to the 3rd division, Hannover’s second team coached by Daniel Stendel (50) came up from the 4th division. The game in the almost sold-out stadium will be a highlight for the talented squad.
“Aue wasn’t bad, Sandhausen was too, but this is an improvement for us,” believes Stendel. “It will be a different atmosphere, and will bring the boys even closer to professional football.”
Nevertheless, Stendel also has to contend with very specific problems. At the final training session on Friday, his central defenders Lukas Wallner and Eric Uhlmann (both 21) were still with the second division team of head coach Stefan Leitl (47) – and were missing from the U23s.
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“Ösi-Halstenberg” Wallner and Uhlmann trained with Leitl for ten days during the international break and were also present at the professional test in Wolfsburg (1:2). The plan is for Stendel to take them to Osnabrück on Saturday. Both will then receive tutoring on the bus because they missed the standard units with the U23s, among other things.
“We prepare the guys who might join us as best as possible by sending them the video analyses and discussions,” explains Stendel. “Otherwise, we can also have individual discussions. It has worked very well in the past and I hope it continues to work just as well.”
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It will not be clear until Saturday, shortly before departure, whether other players from the professional squad will play for the U23s in addition to Wallner and Uhlmann. Candidates are Kolja Oudenne, Taddel Momuluh (both 22), Montell Ndikom and Husseyn Chakroun (both 19).
