You have seldom seen Uwe Rösler as deeply disappointed as on Friday evening. Fortuna’s coach does not rumble loudly after the 1: 2 bankruptcy in the previously beaten second division bottom Würzburger Kickers, and he certainly does not try to downplay anything or gloss over it. “I’m the coach, so I take full responsibility,” says the 52-year-old frankly. “We did a stupid job today.”
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Rösler couldn’t have put it much more aptly. The fifth in the table gambled away a promising starting position with a barely comprehensible non-performance, especially after the break, and now has an extremely heavy mortgage to bear in the battle for promotion. After all, it is difficult to imagine that another first division candidate could also lose in the passionate, but hardly second division suitable kickers from Würzburg.
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But is Fortuna even a candidate in this constitution? “Nobody should ask me to think about the next 15 games,” says Rösler. “I just want to talk about this game, and it’s hard for me.”
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There is really enough to say about it. From Edgar Prib, for example, who would have imagined his comeback to be very different after surviving a gastrointestinal infection. “We have to ascribe the defeat to ourselves,” emphasizes the veteran who, together with Marcel Sobottka – whose loss of the ball initiated the equalization – couldn’t get the central midfield under control. “We lost the thread and were not in the duels. It was our own fault and it’s a bitter pill that we have to swallow. “
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At least no one succumbs to the temptation to put the defeat on the miserable turf, which in fact made no passing game possible. “That can’t be an excuse,” says Rouwen Hennings and central defender Kevin Danso adds: “Of course the grass was bad, but the Würzburg team had to play on it as well.”
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Above all, they had to fight on it, and on this point the newcomer was that decisive bit better than his favorite guest. “Our duel values were subterranean,” summarizes Rösler. “We failed to score the second goal after our opening goal, and then we invite the opponent to equalize with an individual mistake. Such a mistake can happen in such a place. But then you have to pull together, change your game and go for the second ball. And that didn’t work out in the second half. “
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Fortuna’s repeated inability to assert himself decisively against a playfully inferior opponent left Rösler disappointed. And not just him.
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