After the top games, there is before the top games: with two important Bundesliga victories in your luggage and a wide breast, the foxes go to the Champions League quarter-finals against Aalborg. Managing Director Hanning dreams of great triumph.
There is currently hardly any time to take a deep breath for the Foxes Berlin. After two absolute top games in the Bundesliga were recently due to within just five days, the quarter -finals in the Champions League will continue. “These are all cracks against really good teams. But you are looking forward to every game,” says left winger Tim Freihofer.
Of course, this joy becomes even greater if you also successfully deny these challenges. After Award win in Kiel and that Home success against Hanover The foxes are now considered a hot favorite for the German championship – it would be the first in the club’s history.
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“If you win two such games, of course you have a lot of self -confidence,” said Freihofer. “We want to transfer that to Aalborg now.” So it goes with a wide breast into the first Champions League quarter-finals in 13 years.
Hanning wants the title
The self -confidence is likely to be the taste of managing director Bob Hanning, because his ambitions for the premier class are quite high. “I would say today we will win the Champions League. I really believe in it,” said Bob Hanning last week.
The dream of moving into the final Four, which takes place on June 14th and 15th in Cologne, is great. “There are not many players who can go there. To achieve this at the age of 22 would be very nice. But these are steps that I don’t think about yet. First we have to work very hard twice,” says Freihofer.
His teammate Lasse Andersson, on the other hand, has already made it three times as far – with FC Barcelona. But standing in the last four with the foxes would be something very special, he says.
An opponent with quality
However, Alborg must first be eliminated. Not an easy task, after all, the Danes made it to the final last year. And so far they were able to convince this season, became second in the strong group B and had secured direct entry into the quarter -finals, while the foxes had to take the detour via the playoffs.
“You have extreme quality. There is a world goalkeeper in the goal. There are also a good back room series, good circular runners and a compact defense. So everything you want from a top team,” explains Füchse coach Jaron Siewert.
Nevertheless, his team can also be easily counted among the top teams in Europe, especially after the recent successes in the Bundesliga. “We have top players in every position. And we have a group that has been playing together for a few years. You can tell that. Everyone knows – without talking a lot – what to do. It will be a big task, but we can beat everyone,” says Andersson.
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Bring into a good starting point in the fox building
The first leg in their own hall could be crucial for this. The Berliners seem to benefit enormously from the home advantage this season and have a strong balance in the Max-Schmeling-Halle (twelve victories, a draw, zero defeats in the Bundesliga; five wins, a draw, two defeats in the Champions League).
“Our fans are the best in the league. When the hut is full, you get an extra thrust. We are always happy when we play at home,” says Andersson. The foxes should use this advantage in order to bring themselves into the best possible starting position for the second leg in Denmark.
It can be dreamed
The Thursday evening will show how close the foxes are actually the big ambitions of the managing director. One thing is certain: The chance of a title in the Champions League, but also the Bundesliga has not been as great as now. Yes, maybe a little bit can even be dreamed of by the double.
“It is an incentive for all of us to follow it to the end and to punch everything that is in us in the training sessions, but especially in the games,” says coach Siewert. “If we succeed, in the end we cannot accuse ourselves of anything. And if it is enough to stretch anything in the air at the end of the season, that’s all the better.”
Sending: The day, April 23, 2025, 7:15 p.m.
