Simon Terodde was simply speechless. With a brittle falsetto voice, the match winner of the second division soccer team Schalke 04 tried in vain for a classification after his double pack to 2: 1 (0: 0) at SV Sandhausen and the return to the top of the table. The goal scorer on duty could only break out in the TV interview: “First you have to realize what happened.”
Terodde let his actions speak for themselves in front of several thousand fans who had traveled with him and single-handedly made the 1: 4 home defeat at the summit with Werder Bremen forget.
Thanks to his winning goal in injury time, the Knappen go into the last two games of the season with a two-point lead. More than ever, dreams of direct re-emergence are blooming around the Schalke market, which could now even ideally be perfect in the coming week.
For the verbally indisposed match winner (“I no longer have a voice”), who has now scored in the fifth game in a row in the final spurt of the season and has already scored 27 goals, coach Mike Büskens described the elation in the royal blue camp: “After the 2-1 “The cheering knew no bounds. Living those moments – those are the days when you know you’re part of the greatest club in the world. Just amazing – that’s why I love this club so much.”
The fans should especially love Terodde. The record goalscorer in the second division is Schalke’s personification of promotion ambitions this season. Without the goals of the 34-year-old, who helped VfB Stuttgart and 2019 1. FC Köln to rise to the first division in 2017, Schalke would have collected at least 17 points fewer statistically and would have had nothing to report in the promotion race for a long time.
Büskens praises Terodde’s teammates at FC Schalke
However, Büskens did not want to attribute the success solely to Terodde, who has scored at least two goals for the seventh time this season: “Simon has an incredibly good finish. But he also knows that he has good teammates who put him in the limelight.” , said the 54-year-old.
The interaction of forces must still work against fellow competitor FC St. Pauli (Saturday/8.30 p.m./Sky and Sport1) and at 1. FC Nuremberg (May 15/Sunday) for the long-awaited leap into the elite class. “We have to keep the tension high,” said Büskens with a view to the final tasks and warned: “We haven’t achieved anything yet.”