Nerve-racking to the end: In Karlsruhe pubs, KSC fans watched the away game against Greuther Fürth. The cheers and relief after the final whistle were great. After all, it was about nothing less than relegation.
If you want to get a good view of one of the seven screens in Karlsruhe’s Vogelbräu on this crucial game day, you have to be early: As early as 2 p.m., the best seats in the beer garden and inside are filled, the first fans came at twelve. Due to the corona, not quite as many people can sit in the restaurant as usual. It is about a lot for the KSC, “about everything” say some of the visitors.
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Thorsten Fell is one of the first to have secured a place inside, right in front of the large flat screen. He placed the KSC scarf on the table, next to it: a mouth guard with a KSC print. The blue and white cloth towels are a popular accessory on this 34th matchday of the Second Bundesliga.
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For Fell, it would be a belated birthday present if the KSC won in the away game against Greuther Fürth, he says – and even more so if the Nuremberg team did not make more than one draw in the second crucial game against Holstein Kiel. Because it depends on whether the KSC has to go into the relegation or not. Fell is optimistic: 2-0 for Karlsruhe, he predicts. And Nuremberg? Loses 1: 2.
What has to happen will happen.
Tom (22), KSC-Fan
Other fans are not entirely sure: “The KSC is a sham package,” says Micha (54) and adds: “I’m already used to relegation suffering.” He expects the KSC to win, says Tom (22): “It will happen what needs to happen. “
Damper right at the beginning
The damper comes in the second minute: Greuther Fürth scores the first goal, and Nuremberg almost simultaneously takes the lead. The tension grows in front of the screens in the beer garden. After two good attempts, the first of which started to cheer, the relief comes: Dominik Kother scores to equalize, hands and scarves are stretched up. Cheers.
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Nevertheless: Nuremberg is still in the lead. And even after Holstein Kiel equalized and the KSC scored another goal in the 61 minute, nothing is certain yet.
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Cheers and relief
At the Wildpark Stadium, around 40 fans cheer for a private event by KSC sponsor Jobsadvision in the last few minutes. After the game’s final whistle in Fürth, there is still no time for jubilation, because the game against Nuremberg is still two minutes longer – enough time for a goal that would still send the KSC into the relegation.
Now a great ballast has dropped.
Steffen Fischer (54), KSC-Fan
Smartphones are pulled out to look at the live ticker. A fan runs restlessly, then it is certain: Nuremberg played undecided. Cheers break out, you fall into your arms. Steffen Fischer parked his car on the opposite side of the street from the stadium.
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The 54-year-old watched the football games on the radio. “In the end it was so nerve-wracking that I just had to drive off and move.” Until the end he “suffered”, he says and, visibly relieved: “Now a great ballast has dropped.”
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