Before crisis duel in Nuremberg
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Like Hertha BSC, his captain Fabian Reese does not really get going in the current season. Before the trend-setting game at the 1st FC Nürnberg on Sunday (from 1:30 p.m. live), the 27-year-old spoke about self-criticism, the disappointing start of the season and the growing reservations in fan groups against coach Stefan Leitl.
“It is very difficult. We have made up a lot, but not much has been getting on the record so far. We have not shown good games under our level of performance. For different reasons, we can’t get the energy on the field. Therefore, I am of course very dissatisfied with the current situation,” the most valuable Hertha professional attested in an interview with the “RBB”. After six match days, only one assist has been available at Reese to date, but overall the capital club only scored four goals – together with Nuremberg, low in the 2nd Bundesliga.
“We players take this very much, nobody is satisfied, nobody wants to continue playing. The route must be to continue working hard, to trust what you can do and to fight back piece by piece,” said the attacker, born in Kiel, asked about the mood in the cabin. However, he did not accept that in summer with Ibrahim Maza, Derry Scherbant and Jonjoe Kenny, he does not accept the excuse for the low of the form: “We have not yet managed to play our game. We have cramped a bit with the system and have not yet managed to deliver full energy and a top performance over 90 minutes. Then we are not at the moment-and we are not at the moment Performance level. “
In the balanced 2nd league, you cannot allow such dropouts and had to go to your performance limit every week. “You can talk to each other, the coaching team can give help. But everyone is primarily responsible for themselves. I first take a duty to show better. What am I ready to sacrifice performance to be able to get performance? What do I do during the week to be fit at the weekend? Concentrating.
Also Reese “recently did not show what I expect from myself. But I also believe that I have been spoiled with my own performance for the past two years. It is a fact that all players have phases in which they do not achieve their performance level. I can only promise that I can make everything to become the best version of myself and to work on the team with my performance and the boys can help me.”
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“One hundred percent,” the captain replied to the question of whether he trusted Hertha under the leadership of coach Stefan Leitl again. Because “he is a good coach, gives us clear processes and showed the second half of the season that we can successfully play football. I see the training sessions every week and believe that the coach is the poorest sow in this phase. If eight, nine players are below their performance level, you can first talk about tactics and system, but first and foremost you have to be won and better than the opponent. Nevertheless, the nice thing about football is the chance to turn the momentum every week.
Despite the adverse circumstances, the Hertha professional wants to take the crisis duel with Nuremberg positively: “This will be a game as so often in the second league: it is brutally tight. We were also far below when we won 3: 0 in Hanover. I think there are still a bit of lying. get our clear goal. “