Viktoria Berlin takes the surprising victory over table leaders 1. FC Magdeburg as the starting signal for the last games in the relegation battle of the third football league.
“It’s the beginning. If we don’t gild that, it was just a nice snapshot,” said the midfielder Bjorn Jopek (28) before the game on Saturday at Borussia Dortmund II (2 p.m.) as the first of six games. “We have now received confirmation that we can win,” said Jopek.
Jopek sees the international break during which the new coach brought in at the end of February Farat Toku was able to train with the team for several days at a time for the first time as one piece of the puzzle to success.
“We have developed a scent mark during the international break,” said the 28-year-old about Toku’s measures, “we now have a different game idea with less risk, but it gives us more security”, even if our own possession of the ball, which the The team mainly celebrated under Toku’s predecessor Benedetto Muzzicato, suffered from it.
Despite the long time in the gray area of the relegation zone, according to the former Unioner, the team has now fully accepted the relegation battle and is thus prepared for the final sprint: “We are a young team. Many players have never been in this situation and have to grow into it.”
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Added to this is the new approach to the game as well as the topics and solutions addressed by Toku in threatening situations. “We have to draw further conclusions and implement them so that we are above the line on the last day of the game,” says Jopek, describing the “high goal”.
The victory over Magdeburg also changed the mood within the team. “We are focused and happy, before that the atmosphere was rather tense and frustrated because we hadn’t rewarded ourselves for so long despite our hard work.” The next reward should follow on Saturday in Dortmund.
