Magdeburg Coach Sander: “Standing still is a step backward”

For coach Petrik Sander at 1. FC Magdeburg, complacency is the wrong approach. After the fifth straight home win and the club’s record 20 points from the first eleven league games, he doesn’t want to send his team into the international break with the wrong mindset. “I don’t like that ‘we’re in the clear’ mentality. You can look back on it with satisfaction, but that’s just standing still—and standing still is a step backward. Why should we be satisfied with that?” asked the 65-year-old Sander after the 4-1 win over FC St. Pauli. 

Captain Reimann: “On the Right Track”

Captain Dominik Reimann sees it the same way. “Those twenty points won’t get us anywhere. We still have enough games left to keep racking up points. For me, it’s about wanting to do even more right now, because you can tell we’re on the right track.”

The next opponent after the international break is Arminia Bielefeld on the road. “It’ll be a challenging match with the national team players we have, all of whom will be playing an international match on Tuesday,” said sporting director Peer Jaekel, looking ahead to the match on November 20.