Football: Schalke 04 – in a good mood in the hammer final sprint – football – sport

Three games, three wins – Mike Büskens’ record as the new coach of Schalke 04 doesn’t get any better. The games under his leadership against FC Ingolstadt (3-0), Hannover 96 (2-1) and most recently Dynamo Dresden (2-1) were all won, with Büskens having to watch Ingolstadt from home due to his corona disease .

Fourth in wait

Mike Büskens’ good starting record since the Dismissal of Dimitrios Grammozis, who incidentally also won all three games in the first half of the season, lifted the spirits at the Schalke market after the fuss about the change of coach and the departure of the main sponsor Gazprom. However, the score was also sorely needed to put yourself in a good starting position for the final sprint in the promotion race.

Schalke (50 points) are fourth, just behind Werder Bremen (52), Darmstadt 98 (51) and FC St. Pauli (51), and after the recent win in Dresden, Büskens was happy with the result and the passion that his team showed. But he also saw deficiencies in the game, which should be eliminated at the end of the season if possible in order to be promoted again.

“Find better football solutions”

“We know that we have to find better football solutions in the upcoming games”, Büskens said in Dresden. Better solutions – this is especially true for the game forward. In Saxony, too, the royal blues presented themselves mostly harmless.

The two Terodde goals were among the few good actions on the offensive. The midfield played largely without ideas. Büskens noted that the players “hectic” handled the ball. “We have to play much better than in the first half”also found Simon Terodde with a view to the next tasks.