FC Augsburg plays the best second half of his club history in the Bundesliga and can dream of Europe. In a duel against FC Bayern you can still see yourself as an outsider, but the opposites were more clear.
Actually, it wasn’t that long ago that FC Augsburg has really annoyed FC Bayern. In autumn 2022, the Augsburgers defeated the record champion 1-0. Only Jeffrey Gouweleeuw and Elvis Rexhbecaj become Jeffrey Gouweleeuw and Elvis Rexhbecaj on Friday evening (From 8.30 p.m. on the Livereportage in BR24Sport Livcenter) probably run. Possibly also Mergim Berisha, the then winning goal scorer, who has now played again on a loan at the Swabians.
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“It is possible that he is there,” said coach Jess Thorup, who could collect the first minutes of play in the FCA jersey against the Munich team since his loan in winter from Hoffenheim. The Bayern fright could also be used on Friday. But that is by no means certain.
The competition in the storm is great, it works at FC Augsburg. Thorup’s team has been unbeaten in the Bundesliga in eleven games. All club records are currently pulverized week after week.
Goalkeeper Finn Dahmen had to hand in his white vest against Hoffenheim, but that was Hoffenheim penalty is a clear wrong decision, as the DFB also admitted the following day. And the unbeaten series continues to exist.
Record-Augsburger In the second half of the season
“It is a great opportunity for us as a small team to play against a large team and get a boost,” says Thorup, looking forward to the game against FC Bayern, but clearly assigns the outsider role to his team. The starting layers are not that different. On Friday, the third of the second round table meets the first. In the back series, the Augsburgers only got three points less than the league leader FC Bayern Munich and thus play the best second half of their club history.
This is also the real story that can be told around the FCA in these weeks. What happened to this team during the winter break? In the Christmas holidays, the Augsburgers went with a hearty and embarrassing 1: 5 clap at the promoted Holstein Kiel. Coach Thorup was out of the end, but he was completely reinventing the team.
Wolfsburg loan The key to the stable defensive
FC Augsburg is hardly ever defensive. On the one hand, this has to do with record goalkeeper Finn Dahmen, on the other hand with the coordination of the individual members in the defense network. Even though Cedric Zesiger added a new one on loan from Wolfsburg. But the Swiss gives the triple chain the long -searched stability.
With 33 goals conceded, the FCA was the third largest shooting stall in the league in the first half of the season. In the ten second round games played so far, the Augsburgs were only overcome three times (!). For comparison: the opponent FC Bayern already conceded 13 goals – two last Saturday against FC St. Pauli.
Thorup doesn’t just want to defend against FC Bayern
In the first half of the season, the Augsburgers in Munich kept the zero for a long time, but in the end they had to accept three goals. Therefore, Thorup changes the route for the renewed duel: “You cannot defend Bayern for 90 minutes. You have to take your chances of switching.” In general, the trainer is optimistic: “At the moment we have the feeling that we have a chance against every opponent.”
Against FC Bayern, the chance for FC Augsburg was probably never greater – and how the sensation against the record champions can be created anyway in Augsburg anyway.
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Source: today in the stadium 05.04.2025 – 3:05 p.m.
