After a home clap in the 2nd league
“We’re fed up”: unrest in Braunschweig
December 15, 2024 – 9:08 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
Shortly before Christmas, Eintracht Braunschweig finds itself in a relegation zone. The mood in Lower Saxony is at rock bottom.
Many Braunschweig fans were already on their way home when Maurice Neubauer scored 3-0 for SV Elversberg. While the first half was still competitive, the game tipped significantly in favor of the guests in the second half. And so after the final whistle there was a shrill concert of whistles in the Eintracht Stadium on Hamburger Straße. In the minutes before, it was already echoing from the fans: “We’re fed up.” The mood at the German second division team has finally changed.
Because after 16 match days, Eintracht is in 17th place, a direct relegation spot. Braunschweig has the second worst offense and the worst defense. Only bottom-placed Regensburg is behind Lower Saxony in both categories.
The supporters were accordingly satisfied after the 0:3 home defeat. The team was sent away from the south curve, the fan block of Braunschweig’s active fan scene. Coach Daniel Scherning was impressed by his team’s performance and the events that followed. At the press conference he said: “After conceding the first goal, we no longer had any structure and collapsed.”
The head coach spoke of a “headless” performance by his team in the last 30 minutes of the game. “That leaves me speechless, what happened after that was something you could have expected over the course of the last few minutes,” added the dismayed coach.
In the last game before the winter break, Braunschweig has to go to Nuremberg next Saturday evening. In the top game of the second division, Eintracht are doomed to win if they want to spend Christmas in a non-relegation zone. The problem: Braunschweig has only gotten two points in eight games away from home. Six defeats and two draws are the result of the away trips so far.
Daniel Scherning quickly conjured up the spirit from last season. “It’s part of professional football that you have to go through phases like this. Last year we saw how important it is to stick together to achieve a big goal. And I hope that we can do it again this year.”
At that time, Braunschweig was in 17th place after the first half of the season – and still kept the class in the end.