Dusseldorf and Paderborn’s great fear: season break

Düsseldorf – The fear of a season break seems to be greater than a regular sport relegation. For Fortuna Düsseldorf and SC Paderborn, this has become more threatening since the Bundesliga restart.

The weak 0-0 in a dreary atmosphere does not help either team in the fight against relegation. Nevertheless, both coaches seemed relieved. “I am glad that we went through the day like this,” said Uwe Rösler from third to last Düsseldorf. “A lot worked,” said Steffen Baumgart from the bottom of the table in Paderborn about the unusual processes.

The first game without an audience after a ten-week Corona break gave Rösler and Baumgart the prospect of being able to end the season regularly. Both hope that the DFL concept for continuing operations will work until the end. “The goal must be to end the season in an orderly manner,” said Baumgart. «We all have to do a good job together until the end. The restrictions are not pleasant, but we accept it. »

What makes both nervous about the restart of the league are the plans of the German Football League to create a relegation rule in case the concept fails if the season has to be stopped. Then it is in the room to let the last placed team descend at the time of the cancellation. The plan is currently dividing the league and testing the solidarity of the clubs.

“In the past few weeks, I have had the perception that there is great agreement within the DFL and the league on all topics and all questions,” said SCP Managing Director Fabian Wohlgemuth. “Therefore, the question arises why two clubs should say goodbye to solidarity if they drop out of this boat.”

Schalke’s supervisory board boss Clemens Tönnies, on the other hand, rumbled at Sky Sport News HD: “If we stop, those below will have to face the consequences.” In addition to Paderborn and Düsseldorf, this also applies to the penultimate Werder Bremen, who will only play against Bayer Leverkusen again on Monday, but athletically questionable and unfair.

Even Rösler, who is still five points ahead of Werder and six ahead of Paderborn with the Fortuna at least until Monday, finds it almost grotesque to determine relegated teams, even though clubs would have played twice against different opponents, but only once against others. «We are definitely interested in ending the season. We want to keep the league for 34 game days, »said Rösler, although there are still games against Bayern, Dortmund and Leipzig for his club. Surprisingly, Bang is not before that.

“We will still score – even three times – in places where we still don’t believe it,” promised Rösler full-bodied in view of the recklessly playful victory on Saturday and the worst goal scoring in the league. Since Rösler took over Fortuna as a coach, his team has only played a draw in the seventh game for the fifth time.

Before that, his team had been the better team – even before spectators – in the 1-1 draw against Frankfurt, the 1-1 draw in Wolfsburg and especially in the 3-3 win after a 3-0 lead against Hertha BSC. So also on Saturday. “Today almost every player just hit the post,” said defense chief Kaan Ayhan. The ball slapped at least four times on the crossbar or post of the Paderborn goal.

«The positive thing is that we haven’t lost. We shouldn’t have complained if we lost 0-1 or 0-2, »admitted Paderborns Mohamed Dräger. Then the last one would have been nine points behind the relegation rank. That Paderborn could not win even with the direct competitor without fan support or that Fortuna could be dangerous at all should give reason to think. The remaining class becomes a Herculean task.

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