Service bearer before Hansa change
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In the middle of the promotion race it crashes at Energie Cottbus – but really. The club suspended Maximilian Krauss two game days before the end of the season, since he should agree with Hansa Rostock, the upcoming opponent of the Lausitzer and competitors in the fight for the top 3. At the press conference in the run-up to the game, coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz made it clear that the measure hit was “without alternative”. “The club is above everything,” made the 59-year-old clear.
With eight goals and three templates in 33 games, Krauss is one of the top performers in Cottbus, who took fifth place one year after promotion to the 3rd division and still have hopes for the third -placed Saarbrücken with three points. According to Tolcay Cigerci and Timmy Thiele, Krauss is the best energy scorer. The 28 -year -old left wing confirmed to his trainer that there has been an agreement with the fourth -placed Hansa Rostock about a change in summer for weeks. “I find the time on Monday disrespectful to the employer Cottbus and disrespectful to the teammates,” Wollitz rumbled.
And the trainer of the Cottbuser, who started his third term in Lusatia in July 2021 and led the club back to the 3rd league, went on significantly in his assessment of the situation: “By the 24th matchday we lifted it at a different level, when he was the best interplay of the 3. League.” In the weeks earlier, Krauss, among other things, scored the important winning goal against Wehen Wiesbaden (2-1) and Verl (1-0). In the following ten games, he only managed one template, Cottbus fifth from first place to fifth place and has been third in the design table since then.
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In the 0: 2 at the second representative of VfB Stuttgart, Krauss was missing yellow -locked – the warning in the game before he saw shooting away for ball in added time. “Because on the weekend we played in Stuttgart, his mother is said to have had his birthday,” was the relentless assumption of his coach, who also tried to make the drop in performance: “I showed two scenes where the player was the focus of the situation. If someone runs between 34 and 35 km/h, but there is only 29 km/h – these are all topics.”
After the 2: 4 at home against Mannheim, when Krauss was substituted in the 51st minute at the 1-2 score, energy fell out of the promotion ranks for the first time since the beginning of November. On Saturday, the Wollitz team will travel to Rostock to the direct duel before receiving Ingolstadt on the last match day. “I have the feeling that when we win, we are third in the last match day,” said Wollitz optimistic.