Florian Egerer (37th) and René Guder (54th) were sent off by referee Patrick Kessel (Norheim) on Monday evening and thus decisively weakened the last squad of Lower Saxony. Coach Rico Schmitt had to do without eight professionals who are in quarantine due to a Covid infection. In addition, regular keeper Erik Domaschke was absent due to injury.
In view of these difficult circumstances, the performance of the SVM was almost grandiose. Because even with a double deficit, the home side still had chances to make it 2:2. “With today’s performance and performance, it’s only a matter of time before we turn the tide. It was adverse circumstances, the last few days have been very turbulent with the guys being in quarantine and Erik’s injury,” said Smith.
Decimated Meppeners fight passionately
Meppen threw a lot of passion into the scales from the first second and made up for the lack of various top performers. One or the other footballing misunderstanding was generously forgiven by the fans in view of the enormous effort that the motley SVM team put into it. As the game progressed, however, the Emslanders also gained confidence in the forward movement and were even the slightly more dangerous team in the first 45 minutes.
Egerer sees “red” – Tankulic scores with a penalty
The 1-0 half-time lead through a converted penalty by Luka Tankulic (45th) was deserved, even if Duisburg didn’t agree at all with referee Kessel’s pointing to the point just before the break tea. But the TV pictures clearly showed that Marvin Ajani had caught the ball after a Tankulic header. However, the fact that Meppen’s captain had previously pushed the MSV player a little. It was the second controversial decision by the impartial within a short period of time. Shortly before, the 32-year-old SVM midfielder Egerer had shown the red card for an emergency brake against Alaa Bakir (37th).
Although Egerer prevented a clear chance to score, he was not the last man in his team. Christoph Hemlein was even behind him and might have been able to disrupt Bakir decisively at the end. As it was, the 24-year-old was sent off and a free-kick for the Meiderich team, which got caught in the Meppen wall.
Guder is also sent off, Ademi makes it 2-1
Immediately after the change of sides, events came to a head. First, Bakir equalized with a cross that sailed past all players into the far corner (48′). Domaschke replacement Matthis Harsman, who had previously held great, was probably blocked from view when the shot was taken. Shortly thereafter, Guder went to work against Marvin Knoll in his own half and was sent off for a serious foul (54′). Thus, the Emsländer now had to try to avoid the fourth defeat in a row, twice outnumbered.
The Lower Saxony defended bravely up to the 80th minute, then former Braunschweig player Orhan Ademi made it 2-1 after Harsman had only been able to parry Bakir’s shot forward. Meppen didn’t give up and desperately tried to equalize somehow. And they almost succeeded: Marcus Piossek’s volley just missed the target by a hair’s breadth (87′) and Hemlein hit the crossbar in added time (90’+4′).
Schmitt: “Awesome evening with a sh… result”
Kessel ended the game shortly afterwards. First, the ranks whistled at the referee. But then the Meppen fans celebrated their completely exhausted team for minutes with songs and lots of applause. “What the boys gave everything today, with the great audience, was a huge thing. It was sensational,” said Coach Schmitt, praising his eleven and summed it up quite aptly from Meppen’s point of view: “An amazing evening with a shitty result and one to approve conceded.”
Match statistics SV Meppen – MSV Duisburg
Matchday 30, 03/14/2022 7:00 p.m