Energie lose unluckily, Hansa hope, Aue score

Rostock coach Daniel Brinkmann can still flirt with promotion. / Photo: Swen Pförtner/dpa

Cottbus without conviction in attack

This defeat really hurts Energie Cottbus. Instead of moving to within one point of leaders VfL Osnabrück with a win, they are now seven points adrift after the 1-0 defeat. "We made one more big mistake than our opponents," said Energie coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz on MagentaSport. In his opinion, it wasn't necessarily the better team that won.

Wollitz was particularly unhappy with his own attacking play. They had an incredible number of set-pieces, but played without conviction in the final third and made the wrong decisions. "When we have the power, we also have enormous intensity. We often didn't play cleanly enough in the counter-pressing," said Wollitz and also denounced the defensive work when conceding the goal.

Other than that, he couldn't accuse his team of much and therefore announced no reaction next Sunday in the next top match against second-placed Rot-Weiss Essen. "Why should we react? Because we were unfortunate to lose 0:1? I am convinced of my team. Now it's about being smart in the last five games," emphasized Wollitz. A win against Essen would leave them just one point behind the direct promotion places.

Hansa still in the promotion race

With a look at the result and the current table, coach Daniel Brinkmann was in a good mood. His FC Hansa Rostock defeated basement side SSV Ulm 5:1 as expected, are in fifth place with 59 points with five match days to go and still have their sights set on promotion. The gap is currently five points. A year ago, they needed 70 points to jump into the Bundesliga 2.

"Last year, we had 60 points. I strongly assume that we'll get a corner above that. That means we have a development. You can define a positive trend. Now we have to hope a little. Something will happen next week. We have to do our homework, like today," said the coach on MagentaSport in view of the fact that some of the teams ahead of Hansa are still playing each other.

Against Ulm, his team got themselves into trouble after taking a 2-0 lead and scoring the equalizer. They had to fight for a long time until the final score was clear. "For me, 5:1 is too high. I'd like us to play down something like that more confidently and not have that momentum of trembling again," said Brinkmann. And Maximilian Krauß emphasized: "After the 3:1, especially from the 60th minute onwards, the game was a bit dead. There was little movement, few goal-area scenes. But then we flipped the switch again. That shows the character of the team."

Aue manage to pick up another point

If this is what the fight for the last straw in terms of staying in the league looks like, then FC Erzgebirge Aue do not deserve it. Despite a 1-1 draw against SC Verl, the Saxons proved why they are so low down in the table. Especially in the first half, the game of the "Veilchen" was passionless. The progress announced by interim coach Khvicha Shubitidze was nowhere to be seen.

"Unfortunately not," was Shubitidze's response to the question on MagentaSport as to whether his team had shown what he had expected of them. "In the second half, you could see that we had ideas with fast vertical play. Unfortunately, they didn't play it well," said the former head of Aue's youth academy.

Aue did indeed improve in the second half, but Erik Weinhauer's equalizer was the result of a major mistake by Verl goalkeeper Philipp Schulze.

Is there still something in it for FC Erzgebirge? "That's not the point. We want to improve from game to game. We're there to make a difference, to develop an idea again in the next few games. The players should get the feeling that they are getting better," said Shubitidze.

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Cottbus without conviction in attack

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