Club coach Miroslav Klose sees the defeat against bottom-placed Magdeburg as a warning shot at the right time. The Franconian derby against Kellerkind Greuther Fürth on matchday 15 “offers the perfect chance to turn everything around for the better.”
While midfielder Julian Justvan spoke of a “complete catastrophe”, Miroslav Klose saw the abrupt end of Nuremberg’s winning streak at the bottom of the 2nd Bundesliga table as a signal to the Franconians. “I think it was a warning shot at the right time,” said the FCN coach after the sobering 0:3 (0:0) at 1. FC Magdeburg – and already turned his attention to the Frankenderby next Sunday against arch-rivals Greuther Fürth.
“The fans know what’s coming up next week, the team knows that too,” emphasized Klose: “We all know that we have a very important home game.” That’s why: “We have to achieve a turnaround as quickly as possible.”
Klose: “Too sloppy in possession of the ball”
Because what his team had shown after three recent victories in Magdeburg was described far too nicely as “poor”. Klose criticized his team for being “too sloppy in possession of the ball”, and he was also not satisfied with their work against the ball, and there were also “many often wrong decisions”.
Mateusz Zukowski (73./90.+5) and Maximilian Breunig (90.+10) punished this with goals against ten Nuremberg players. After yellow-red against Rafael Lubach (76th), the first defeat after six games could no longer be prevented. The lead to relegation place 16 remains smaller than the gap to relegation place third, which can hardly be made up.
Fürth is now the right opponent
But Klose tirelessly tried to focus on the positive. “I’d rather have a collective loss once than always have three or four players out,” he said. The 275th derby against Kellerkind Fürth offers the perfect chance to turn everything around for the better.
“We managed to play two good games last year,” said Klose about the two clear victories (4:0, 3:0) last season, before he came up with a small warning: “But we know that they (Fürth) also have their backs against the wall.”
Source: Blickpunkt Sport November 30, 2025 – 9:45 p.m
