Christian Eichner began with praise. “Fortuna is a team with unbelievably high quality,” said the Karlsruher SC coach after the 2-2 draw on Sunday. While Daniel Thioune couldn’t hide his disappointment at the draw and needed just over half a minute for the analysis, his satisfied counterpart went far. He cited Fortuna as an example of “what it means to play passes correctly, on the right foot, and to already have the next move in mind”.
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Without an ulterior motive, the 39-year-old would hardly have lectured about it, and so he added: “These teams and these players sometimes have the difficulty that this league has a few other attributes to offer.” Specifically, the head coach of KS was concernedC about the adaptability that his team had shown and fought their way back into the game. Whereby the whole truth is that without central defender Jordy de Wijs’ capital dropout before the penalty kick, Baden would probably not have found it so easy to wrestle Fortuna’s lead away.
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“You also need other qualities. With all the wonderful moves and all the wonderful system changes, this league requires me to adapt from time to time,” said Eichner regardless. “That has mine The team made it so that we kept it a bit easier in the second half.” From then on, Karlsruhe played more and more long balls because Fortuna allowed almost nothing defensively in the strong first half and dominated the match. “It’s not always nice,” emphasized Eichner, but “brutally uncomfortable to defend. And these actions brought us back into the game.”
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