Dresden. “I love you, Dynamo,” the fans love to sing when it’s on. That this love does not rust even in difficult sporting times was proven by around 100 loyal supporters who followed the training of the black and yellow in the Walter Fritzsch Academy on Monday. Appropriately for Valentine’s Day, Dynamo Dresden invited those in love with the club to follow the public unity at Messering. And they have known for a few matchdays that there is a lot to train for the SGD professionals – especially in the offensive area.
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Even in the first half of the season, the hit rate didn’t look very rosy, but that has even worsened in the five games in the second half of the season so far: only two goals have been scored. After the 0-0 draw in Paderborn on Saturday, Dynamo now has exactly one goal scored per point game – fewer than ever before this season. The fact that the black and yellow have exactly 22 goals after 22 matchdays may fit in well with the calendar year, but not with the goal of staying in the league for the season.
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SCROLL THROUGH: The pictures of Dynamo’s draw in Paderborn
Dynamo Dresden gets a point in Paderborn: The game ends 0-0.
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In the relegation season two years ago, the SGD was even two goals down at the same time and was bottom of the table at the time, but had conceded more goals and thus scored even fewer points. The only consolation for the lovestruck Dynamo fans is that there are still weaker attacking teams in the league this season – at least so far. The teams from Aue and Ingolstadt, threatened with relegation, are in a worse position than Dynamo back then, and Hannover 96 have also scored fewer goals than Dresden.
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The fact is: due to the lull in the storm, the distance to the relegation zone has shrunk. To Dusseldorf’s 2-1 victory against the top team from Schalke means that Dynamo is only two points ahead of the relegation rank. Head coach Alexander Schmidt has known for a long time that his protégés need extra help in attack. Against Paderborn he had decided on a counter tactic that didn’t work out. Goals could also be scored in standard situations. If you master them.
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“Of course we also know that we are not particularly successful with offensive standards at the moment and that we have to keep working on that,” said the 53-year-old after the most recent game – in which the black and yellow had eight corner balls, but only one of them brought goal. However, Julius Kade’s header wasn’t particularly dangerous and the free-kicks fizzled out completely. Consequently, corners were on the Valentine’s Day training schedule. SGD video analyst Timon Klasen had his thoughts on this. He made it clear to the pros on slips of paper where they should position themselves in the penalty area and behind it in order to be able to celebrate a goal after a dead ball again in the future.
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Important note: Dynamo’s video analyst Timon Klasen (r.) shows the players the desired occupation of the penalty area for corner kicks.
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Even in training it didn’t really work out that way. Goalkeeper Anton Mitryuschkin, who once again represented the injured regular goalkeeper Kevin Broll in Paderborn, fished away many balls. After he had to reach behind four times in the 1:4 against Rostock and had to experience an extremely thankless point game debut, he gained more self-confidence in East Westphalia and remained undefeated. “I have to say that he didn’t show a good performance, but a really, really good one. Not only because he held the ball well, but also because he gave the team security with his charisma. He was very calm, he was very dominant, he defended the penalty area well from cross balls,” head coach Alexander Schmidt praised the Russian’s sovereignty.
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A sovereignty that Schmidt also hopes for from the people in front of him. Because an erratic defense and a harmless offensive would be poison for the next two games, both of which will take place in front of a home crowd against top teams from the 2nd Bundesliga. On Friday, 1. FC Heidenheim will be visiting Dresden, followed eight days later by Darmstadt 98 – the first round games in September were both narrowly lost away from home. Ex-Darmstadt and Dynamo captain Yannick Stark announces: “Home games are always nice with us, especially when the spectators are allowed to come back. Next week we want to make the Rostock defeat a little more forgotten. And we still have a few scores to settle from the first half of the season and we want to settle them.” So that the fans can once again sing loudly about their great love.
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