A victory for the heart-and for the new season: 1. FC Köln continues to torture itself in the DFB Cup. But the emotions after the last minute victory are worth gold.
If Lukas Kwasniok had been able to choose a victory in his first competitive game as a coach of the 1st FC Köln, he would have designed it exactly as: a trophy fight with a third division club, the fans of the flite goats loudly, but for a long time desperate because of the weak game of the team. The FC in added time with 0: 1 behind – but then that.
It didn’t matter – at least not at the moment of victory – that the performance had been disappointing over 90 minutes. FC celebrated a victory in Regensburg, which may not have been more important in its establishment. The deficit, the weak performance, the comeback, the common joy: Such victories have already aroused forces in the past and have a faith that can carry a team through the season.
And because Kwasniok is a trainer who relies on exactly such moments and the FC is a club that loves just such moments, something could have been found in Regensburg on Sunday. Not least because a team, which was largely formed in part, had achieved this victory. A team that still has to find themselves that still has to develop the belief in themselves, their own skills and to the requirements of the new trainer.
On Sunday in the Jahnstadion, a feared disappointment became a jubilee explosion at the start of the season. After the preparation had already aroused a new euphoria and the fans can hardly wait for the Bundesliga after the climb, the billy goats can now ride on the first wave of success. It was an emotional roller coaster ride in Regensburg. But the FC has not crashed. On the contrary. In the end, the FC experienced a intoxication. And this feeling could be worth gold in the Bundesliga.