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meHe would rather finish second, Sebastian Hoeneß said on Sunday after the 4-1 hit against Bayern. As if there was additional pressure on him and the Hoffenheim of 1899, as if they were now a little less in the spotlight, they hadn’t quite risen up the table. But whoever wins Bayern has to put up with being in the headlines one way or another. The coach doesn’t even have to be the nephew of the former Bayern president, and his team doesn’t have to be a leader.
The times when it seemed particularly favorable to meet the Munich team when they had just returned from difficult trips in the Champions League seemed to be over. So much so that some could not remember it. Now these days are obviously here again. And if it weren’t for the Bavarians, who are known to make no mistakes, the long-term winner would actually have to witness management errors in team composition, which currently seems a bit lacking. The fact that player fatigue could turn out to be the same as Sunday at Hoffenheim was not basically the question, but rather when it would happen in view of the hassle of deadlines.
As unpredictable as football is, much of what happened over the weekend was predictable. And that doesn’t just apply to FC Bayern, it also applies to Schalke 04 and Mainz 05. Bringing the problems of last season into the new season and hope that things will magically improve and all difficulties will disappear. dissolve, it seems naive here as there.
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Perhaps Sebastian Hoeneß, with his desire not to be the center of attention, also thought a bit about David Wagner. Not long ago he seemed like the right man for Schalke: after the first half of last season, Schalke were tied on points with Borussia Dortmund in the table, and whoever confirmed BVB’s title chances at the time had to do it, even if with one wink, I also do it at Schalke. Then Royal Blue crashed along with the miracle man Wagner. And somewhere in Moscow, his predecessor, also acting Schalke coach Domenico Tedesco, who is now the coach of the current second Spartak, will have thought: Yes, I know.
That it would be difficult at FC Schalke was as expected as the development at FSV Mainz. It did not seem to harmonize between coach and team for some time. The exterior impression was not bad. But in the days of Corona, the clubs still have a little more than usual the principle of hope that things will go well. Because each trainer dismissal costs, above all, a lot of money, depending on the remaining term of the contract. Two firings of coaches on matchday two speak of a lost summer in which clubs could have solved old problems. Crown or not.
