“Of course we hoped that we were further,” said Polzin accordingly after the recent 0: 2 against RCD Mallorca. The coach will know how important a sense of achievement in the cup for the team is also with a view of the start of the Bundesliga season. For the HSV, this season is only about relegation. The promotion euphoria, which is extremely helpful for a successful start, would have gone directly with a cup-off in Pirmasens.
Meanwhile, the first cup round could also be uncomfortable for co-promoted Cologne. The Domstadt residents have to go to the duel with a third division club Jahn Regensburg on Sunday (from 3:30 p.m.). The “effzeh” should be warned. The last time the Cologne team left in the first round of cup was the Jahn of all people. At that time, the outsider defeated the favorite in the penalty shootout.
The cup weekend completed four games on Monday evening. There could be surprises in all of them. Hertha BSC has drawn an extremely difficult lot, meets Ligakon competitor Prussia Münster from 6 p.m. After the weak start of the season in the 2nd league with just one point from two games, an early departure in the trophy should tighten the already easy crisis mood in the capital and bring coach Stefan Leitl into explanation. After the recent 0-0 against Karlsruhe, he did not want to have everything bad: “It is also clear that we don’t all walk through the city,” said Leitl.
But it was not only in Berlin that the start of the season in the 2nd Bundesliga was presented differently. Fortuna Düsseldorf, like Hertha, actually as a candidate for climbing, was at the end of the table after two match days, came under the wheels 1: 5 at the opening match against Arminia Bielefeld and also lost his first home game with 0: 2 against Hannover 96. The game in Schweinfurt (also from 6 p.m.) could be good for coping with crisis – or the atmosphere in the Rhineland could finally be overturned.
At Mainz 05, the head could play a major role before the game at Dynamo Dresden (also from 6 p.m.). The game among the Saxons marks the start of turbulent and probably exhausting weeks for the team of Bo Henriksen. Five competitive games are entered in the Mainz calendar within 14 days.