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Lilien U17 wants to score against Kaiserslautern +++ Corona also determines the U19 run-up
Darmstadt. The B-Juniors of SV Darmstadt 98 have secured relegation in the Bundesliga South/Southwest, but there are still three games on the program. The first begins on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Urberach against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who have won four of five league games this year and have jumped to 14th place – the first non-relegation spot. As a result, FCK only got twelve of their 20 points this year. U17 coach Patrick Kurt is looking forward to the last games, “huge”, as he says. “We go into these games without the huge pressure to get a result. The omens are great, of course.”
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Of course, Kurt and his team want to win on Sunday, “but it’s great that we can put wanting before having to,” he says. Especially since the Palatinate, which Kurt recently watched in the 2-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt, are stronger than the table shows. The goal difference is 40:41 – that says a lot. “Teams that score 40 goals are usually in other regions,” says Kurt. The opponent is strong on the offensive, strong in the transition game – it is therefore necessary to “be very careful”. The Lilien have to do without Vahidin Turudija (foot injury).
U19 must keep scoring to stay up
The A-Juniors have picked up seven points from the last three games in the Bundesliga South/Southwest. They play SSV Ulm at 11 a.m. on Saturday. This has lost the last four games, sometimes really high. The U19s still have four games to play. The team of coach Georg-Martin Leopold, who is retiring at the end of the season, has a lead of just two points on the first relegation zone, 15, on which FK Astoria Walldorf is.
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Leopold expects a game in Ulm “at around zero degrees, maybe with snow”. And he doesn’t really know who to back. After his trip to the German U19 national team, Clemens Riedel will probably be an issue in the first team, because of the current corona cases, some A-Juniors also trained there on Wednesday to enable a reasonably reasonable unit. In general, however, the same applies as in the summer, when there had already been many corona cases among the professionals: “The development in the first team also determines a bit what happens with us. But of course we are happy to help.”
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