Potential end positions
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The first decisions in the relegation battle of the 2nd Bundesliga are emerging. Five game days before the end of the season it will be very narrow in the lower table region – possibly also for clubs with significantly larger ambitions. We look at the potential final placements of the clubs in the season finale of the second division cellar. We deal with the promotion race here.
“As long as it is as long as possible, we believe in it,” emphasized Jahn Regensburg’s scorer Christian Kühlwetter after the home win against Schalke 04 on Sunday. The unexpected threesome prevented the relegation of the SSV on the Easter weekend. Instead, the gap to co -promoted Prussia Münster on the relegation place was shortened to six points with significantly poorer goal difference. The fact that the Upper Palatinate can still attack for direct relegation above the Playoff Square is very unlikely at eight points. However, even more is possible.
Theoretically, the Jahn could still end the season in eleventh place. There are now the defeated Schalke, which in turn could also go to the 3rd league in the wildest arithmetic games. However, the danger in Darmstadt and – also with a view to the design table – for Greuther Fürth seems to be significantly greater. The cloverleaf is in last place in the ranking of the past five games. Three draws and two defeats followed a small streak of success with four victories in February.
“The struggle for relegation was never actually around for me,” assured Fürth coach Jan Siewert after the victory of competitor Braunschweig at HSV (4: 2). “We have to stay in focus on the things we can influence.” From a purely mathematical way, the Middle Franconia could still improve their points of points to 50 this season. Elversberg with 47 points is currently on the promotion relegation place.
The surprise success of the Braunschweiger in Hamburg comes as a further confirmation of the unexpected coaching decision of Eintracht. Daniel Schering was allowed to continue and could theoretically even lead the lions with the two past victories in the Altona Volkspark and the success against Paderborn to the upper half of the table. After four draws and a defeat in the previous five games against the three promoters and first competitors in the relegation battle, you will also be significantly less satisfied with the Lower Saxony, as long as you stand above the line on matchday 34.
However, the same applies to the owls from Münster and Ulm, who are only two or four points behind the Braunschweigers and presumably have the somewhat more grateful remaining program in front of the chest. The Ulm meet on leaders HSV and Hannover 96 as well as three clubs from the lower half of the table; Hertha, Fürth and competitor Münster – average placement currently 10.4. The Münsteran expects an average placement of the upcoming opponents of 9.8. At Braunschweig, in addition to the bottom of Regensburg with Kaiserslautern, Düsseldorf, Elversberg and Nuremberg, it is an average rank of 7.8 (for the possible final placements in the promotion race of the 2nd division).