Arminia Bielefeld will play a semi-finals of the DFB Cup for the fourth time. Record goalkeeper Fabian Klos says in the Sportschau interview that he mainly rely on coach Mitch Kniat. He tackled the matter much more braver than Norbert Meier, under which he played 14/15 in the semi -finals.
Isaac Boakye scored 26 goals in 67 competitive games for Arminia Bielefeld. At Delron Buckley there were 18 goals with just 34 missions. Fabian Klos is the record player of the DSC with 463 missions and also the record goal scorer with 180 goals. But he didn’t do one thing either: scoring a goal in a semi-finals of the DFB Cup.
Suddenly at the end of 2014/15 against VfL Wolfsburg
The Arminia reached the round of the last four teams three times, each time it went as a loser without scoring a goal. In the 2004/2005 season she lost 0-2 against FC Bayern Munich with Buckley and Boakye. A year later there was – now only with Boakye – a 0: 1 at Eintracht Frankfurt. In April 2015, Klos was there when the dream of the final ended suddenly on the Bielefeld Alm. VfL Wolfsburg, in the second place in the Bundesliga, won 4-0 with the third division club.
On the way to the semi -finals, the Arminia cleared three Bundesliga clubs with Hertha BSC, Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the first round, SV Sandhausen had a second division team left against the East Westphalia.
Again in the semi -finals Table runners of the Bundesliga
In this respect, the Bielefeld Cup season 2014/15 is similar. In the first round, second division Hannover 96 was defeated, after which Bundesliga clubs 1. FC Union Berlin, SC Freiburg and Werder Bremen had to believe. In the semi-finals, the current second in the Bundesliga table, Bayer Leverkusen is also a German champion and also defending champion in the DFB Cup.
Fabian Klos: “It’s similar, but it is different”
“It is similar, but it is different than then”says Klos in conversation with the sports show and immediately dissolves the contradiction. “At that time”, So ten years ago, “The trainer had a completely different approach than today.”
At that time the coach was called Norbert Meier, now 66 years old. “He was one of the old school, but had an incredible sense of the team because he had already experienced a lot.”
Fabian Klos (M.) in the semi -finals of the 2014/15 season
“At Kniat, the ball also bravely played”
Meier in the games against the higher -class teams worth a “Very good defensive order” laid, “So we had little possession, came above all through the switching game”.
The current coach Michél Kniat, who is only called Mitch, will be “also played courageously with ball”. Klos, who is employed as a brand ambassador to the Arminia, has followed every game in the stadium, and he holds “Every victory” Because of this approach “For deserved”.
As different as their tactics were, Meier and Kniat were similar in dealing with people. “Both are absolutely honest. You always have the feeling that there is a guy in front of you who has a clue.”
“Mitch will not be interested” “
Klos, who ended his career in the summer of 2024, would have preferred to see if VfB Stuttgart or RB Leipzig competed live on the Bielefeld Alm on Tuesday (01.04.25, from 8.15 p.m. “Leverkusen is the hardest possible lot”according to Fabian Klos. “The nice thing about Mitch is that it won’t be interested.”
Klos often speak to the trainer and also get a lot with you. Therefore he could promise “That Mitch was prepared for the third division game against Hannover 96 II” be how he will do this on the semi -finals against the Doubles winner.
Marius Wörl with outstanding record in the cup
Who will be the first goal scorer for Arminia Bielefeld in a semi-finals of the DFB Cup? “After the previous course I would have to say Marius Wörl. But basically I don’t care. The main thing is that one hits one”so Klos.
Wörl scored in the quarterfinals against Werder Bremen and in the second round against Union. In addition, there are three assists in the four cup games for the 20-year-old sub-national player. In the 3rd division there are four goals in 28 games so far.
Klos about Wörl: “There is a lot more in it”
Wörl, who is used in the offensive midfield, has been loan from Hannover 96 since summer 2023 and, according to the current status, has to go back to the Lower Saxony after the season. “He likes to play in Bielefeld and has his great development to the coaching team, but ultimately Hannover 96 of course has the booklet of action in his hand,” says Klos. At Wörl he sees potential to make it into the Bundesliga: “He is still very young, there is a lot more in it.”
For the Arminia there is a lot more in this season than moving into the cup final. The Bielefelder aims as fourth in the table with one point behind the 1. FC Saarbrücken placed in front of it in front of it.
On Saturday there was a disappointment with a 2-2 against Hannover 96 II. Was the big game against the Doubles winner in the back heads on Tuesday?
Fabian Klos excludes this: “From my experience, I have to say that the league games were more of the problem after the highlight game in the cup. Before that, everyone said: If I now play snot, I only sit on the bench in the cup.”
Finale of the Westphalia cups already reached
The DSC Arminia Bielefeld will compete with Alemannia Aachen next Saturday. Perhaps then someone who scored a goal for the East Westphalia in a semi-finals of the DFB Cup. Perhaps the Arminen can even call themselves the cup finalist for the first time, at least for the area of the DFB. They have won the Westphalia Cup more often. They are back in the final this season. The opponent will be SV Rödinghausen or the sports fans Lotte.