The first half was very hard stuff: crispbread in the Jahn-Sportpark. Both teams found it extremely difficult to create chances. The speed was missing, the accuracy was missing, the running paths were missing. We only had two real chances – and very early on.
After a cross from Marcel Hilßner, Zwickau’s Patrick Göbel headed over the far post (6′). After a pass from Christopher Theisen and letting a team-mate pass, Lukas Pinckert was pretty much on his own on the right, but was denied by FSV goalkeeper Johannes Brinkies, although the attempt also ended up way too central (9′). After the Berliners initially emanated a touch more danger, especially on the right, the Saxons then had more of the game in the course of the first half.
Göbel hit the crossbar twice
It stayed that way after the break. However, the Enochs team only developed penetrating power in the final phase. Ironically, standard specialist Göbel, otherwise responsible for assists, missed the lead within just a minute: first he put a free kick to the crossbar (72′), then he headed a sharp Hilßner cross at the far post onto the bar (73′). . Zwickau was on the winning goal – and still had to tremble: In the first minute of injury time, Johan Gomez and Marco Schikora let Enes Küc go, and the joker chipped the ball from the left towards the right post, where a Zwickau headed the ball away.”
votes on the game
Midfielder Patrick Göbel (FSV Zwickau) on “Magenta Sport”: “If you have two chances in such an important game to score the winning goal and then don’t score, then you may not be desperate, but you are very disappointed You can’t take a free kick much differently, but I have to get the header in, probably just try to head it flat. Just aim for it, because what should the goalkeeper do then? The net just has to wriggle! I’m really annoyed, because You saw in the second half what kind of pressure we can build up. We deserved to win here.”
Coach Joe Enochs (Zwickau): “We started cautiously, we still had to find each other. Then we got into the game better and better. We spent the second half completely in the opposing half, saved a good one from the line. We did a shot against the post and a header that Patrick has to do, he knows that. The result is frustrating, but the way it was played was also important today. We didn’t have what it took to be successful lately. Today we played like that to to be successful. We’re taking the point today. We’ve increased the gap a little bit.”
Coach Farat Toku (Berlin): “We started really well, we had good chances. In the second half, Zwickau pushed a little harder, we were a bit more defensive, we didn’t have the relief anymore. We’re very happy to take the point I would have been very happy to get the winning goal at the end. I think both teams had their chances and the draw is fair.”