Is Dynamo Dresden succeeding on Saturday the first home win since the second division promotion? On Saturday evening, Karlsruhe comes to the Rudolf Harbig Stadium: The opponent swims on a wave of success, but went away empty-handed at the last guest appearance in Dresden.
On December 5, 2021, some of the hardest fans of Dynamo Dresden will remember well. On this wet and cold December Sunday, the black and yellow celebrated their last home win in the 2nd Bundesliga. The opponent of the Dresdener under the then coach Alexander Schmidt was the Karlsruher SC. The KSC was sent back to Baden 3-1. Now there is a new edition of the game, on Saturday (October 4, 2025, from 8.30 p.m., in the live ticker and Completion Live Live in the app from Sport in the East) Karlsruhe is a guest for the evening top game on the Dresden Elbe.
Dynamo coach Stem: “Not rewarded too little at home”
“These are beautiful facts that you like to read again,” Dynamo coach Thomas Stamm looks back on the game against the KSC. “Now it is up to us. That we can say after the game, now we have the first home win. At home we have still not rewarded enough.” The regular team is still without victory in front of a home crowd. And with the KSC there is an opponent who is oriented towards the top of the table.
KSC coach Eichner recently celebrated his 200th game with the Badeners.
KSC coach Eichner was already there in 2021
The team of KSC coach Christian Eichner, who was one of the few almost four years ago at the game in Dresden, could jump to the promotion places with a win in Dresden. “They seem very well recorded,” says Dynamo coach Stamm the opponent. “You are able to keep zero with your system and to ensure that you always take needles.” Just like recently in the victory against 1. FC Magdeburg when Karlsruhe won 1-0 despite the chance of the chances. “You can see what stability this team has. They pull the narrow games,” said Stamm.
The KSC only conceded six goals in seven season games, Dynamo with 13 more than twice as much. “We haven’t played a game to zero yet,” Stamm, above all, takes on the defensive. But not only the defensive: “We have to get much better in the overall network. The offensive is also part of it.”
Meets again?
And with it Christoph Daferner. The 27-year-old is currently top scorer of the Dresden with three goals. The center forward was already part of the Dresden team in 2021, putting the lid on the historical victory against the KSC with his goal to 3-1. Daferner’s experience could arrive again on Saturday.
Dresden’s Daferner made the 3-1 win against Karlsruhe in 2021.
Stamm: “is about having the courage”
Because, the trunk observes, his team has not yet arrived in the 2nd league. “The difference between the 2nd and the 3rd league is that you no longer have the time and the room,” says Stamm’s analysis: “It is much about accuracy, we don’t have as much time, and so many rooms, decisions. It is a lot to get the courage to get the courage with a high level of intensity into the spaces that are dangerous,” explains the 42-year-old and therefore demands that the decisive component will be clean become.”
Dynamo almost complete – KSC defender injured
After all, the dynamo coach can almost draw from the full: only the red-locked Vinko Sapina is missing. In contrast, the defensively stable KSC lacks regular inner defenders Marcel Franke. And that could also give Dynamo hope for points on Saturday: Karlsruhe is particularly strong, won all four season games here. On the other hand, no threes were yet achieved. And so the Dresden’s wish may be fulfilled that history is repeated on Saturday.
Dirk Hofmeister
