Kreuztal. TuS Ferndorf has achieved its first second division victory, but the joy is subdued. Jonas Faulenbach may have been seriously injured.
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The spell is broken! Second division handball team TuS Ferndorf celebrated its first league win of this season with a 32:27 (17:12) against Dessau-Roßlauer HV 06 and finally showed what the 820 fans in the Stählerwiese sports hall are hoping for from their team had. But there may be a shadow over this long-awaited success: seven minutes before the end, playmaker Jonas Faulenbach, one of the best on the floor with five goals and his steady hand, was eliminated. After preparing the 28:23 for Niklas Diebel, “Fauli” remained on the floor screaming in pain and had to be carried away on the stretcher. It is to be feared that Hesse, who is so important for the overall statics of the team, has sustained an injury of as yet unknown severity on his right knee. An investigation should provide more information on Monday.
Strong Lukas Siegler
But let’s turn the wheel back. The pressure that had weighed on them after four previous defeats was in no way noticeable on the red shirts. Yes, the Ferndorf team had the best first half of the season. This assessment applied equally to the defensive and the offensive. Only five Ferndorf attacks did not end with a goal in the first 30 minutes. Lukas Siegler, who scored five wonderful goals that he had prepared himself with his agility and speed of action, set particularly remarkable accents. In general, everything worked at Ferndorf in these first 30 minutes up front, Andreas Bornemann not only excelled as a goal scorer, but also as a template for circle runner Mattis Michel and brought Jonas Faulenbach in the “middle” then order and calm when necessary became.
Guests never really get it
The 3-0 catapult start (3rd) was important for the Kreuztaler because it released many blockages, including the mental brakes. Ferndorf pulled away over 7: 3 (10th) and 10: 5 (14th) to 13: 6 (18th), the lead leveling off between four and six hits. A mortgage was supposed to be the red card for one of these “tall men” from the second row for the Central Germans, whose lofty back room had rarely been used against the extremely agile Ferndorf defense: Lennart Gliese had Andreas Bornemann with the siren on his neck in brackets and was asked for this foul directly from the field – a tough decision from Dessau’s point of view.
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Even in the second minutes it remained an entertaining, fighting and also playful game that was entertaining for the audience, which also gained in tension. Ferndorf did not stay with his thoughts in the dressing room this time, until 9:16 pm (36th / Bornemann) clearly on course, but Dessau-Roßlau could not be shaken off, tackled the defense more intensively, tempted Ferndorf more and more to make mistakes – and suddenly it was only 21:19 for the hosts who had been so dominant until then. Should it go back to the way it did in Hüttenberg or Emsdetten, when things went downhill after a clear break?
No, this time Ferndorf remained stable, braced himself against the now better positioned Dessau defense, defeated again at 23:19 with goals from Mattis Michel and Jonas Faulenbach. Julian Schneider was to play a key role in the following years.
Julian Schneider as if in a frenzy
His goal at 26:22 was important, which so angered Uwe Jungandreas that the Dessau coach even ran into the middle of the field and – of course – received a bank fine for it. The decisive scenes followed: Yannick-Marcos Pust failed in the counterattack against Tim Hottgenroth, whom Robert Andersson had replaced after almost 40 minutes for the now hapless Lucas Puhl. Mattis Michel used the counterattack, this time converting all his chances of throwing into goals – 27:23 instead of 26:24 after 50 minutes. And when Niklas Diebel heaved the 28:23 into the DRHV gate, the Stählerwiese finally burned, in the good old days.
But back to Julian Schneider: Jules took over the leading role from Jonas Faulenbach in the last eight minutes – and did it so well that Ferndorf confidently and passionately brought the lead to the finish in the final minutes. “It was a gut decision. In the closing stages I didn’t want to bring a player who was still cold, ”said Robert Andersson, justifying the decision not to use the trained middlemen Jörn Persson or Simon Strakeljahn who were sitting on the bench. In the end, it didn’t matter to anyone, the people from Ferndorf were allowed to celebrate for having knocked over the goat. Finally!
The best Ferndorf goal scorers were Lukas Siegler, Mattis Michel and Julian Schneider (6 each).