Soccer Oberliga team SVG Göttingen still has four games at most to secure their place in the relegation round. The next opponent is TB Uphusen on Friday evening in the Krüger Park on the Sandweg – a team that the Black and Whites only beat three weeks ago.
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Göttingen.Nothing is lost yet, and that’s why it’s up to SVG Göttingen in the upper division to step on the gas again in the relegation round. Chairman Karl Würzberg also sees it this way: “The chance is still there, you can score twelve points in four games.” The next chance for a threesome is on Friday at 7:15 p.m. in the home game against TB Uphusen – the team that currently ranked first in relegation. Good omen: in mid-April, the black and whites won 2-0 in the first leg.
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“If we win all four games, I think we’ll stay in there,” says Würzburg. A good start to the game is important: “We just have to take advantage of the chances that come our way. If we were 3-0 up after 25 minutes, that would be good for self-confidence, especially in the strikers.” The fact is that SVG, in seventh place in the table, is six points behind in one fewer games played than the clubs ahead of them to the first non-relegation place.
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“The fact that we lack penetration up front is also due to the fact that we scored poorly throughout the season. Then at some point there is uncertainty,” says Würzberg. “Other teams aren’t really better than us, but if you don’t score you end up relegated because you didn’t score enough goals.”
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He would not say that the squad lacks quality, and the enormous breadth of the squad is the result of many injuries and the corresponding additional commitments. That’s one of the key points for Würzberg: “We’ve hardly ever played with the same starting lineup and had a lot of bad luck. But that’s no excuse, other teams have had a lot of bad luck too.”
“We played much better at the beginning of the season”
However, the plight of injuries also means “that we played much better at the beginning of the season than we are now,” says the club chairman. However, in the worst case, relegation to the state league, a plan B is ready, Würzberg assures. “Before the season, promotion was not an issue for us, but neither was relegation. But you always have to reckon with that in football, and that wouldn’t throw us off our feet either.” In any case, the aim of the team, coach and club is to be the best team in Göttingen.
“Realistically speaking, there’s not a great chance that we’ll make it,” says Würzberg ahead of the important game against Uphusen. On the other hand, all games in the recent past were tight except for the 6-0 defeat in Celle. And above all: “Giving up is not an option. No matter what happens in the end, we want to offer the viewers something and say goodbye to the season properly.”
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