The Off the DFB Cup was already not bode well. With 1: 2 Schalke 04 had disgraced in third division Dynamo Dresden what prompt that caused coach Jens Keller – was called into question – again. The 1: 2 (0: 0), the Gelsenkirchen now to start would lie in the new Bundesliga season with Hannover 96, will fuel the debate about the coach strongly
At least in public. For Horst Heldt, the sporting director of Schalke, after the final whistle had no doubt about the trainer arise. “A coach debate is not done with us,” assured Heldt. Benedikt Höwedes Also, one of two world champions in the team of Schalke, strengthened his coach’s back. “I will not speak ill of the coach here. And there is no reason all black watch,” said the captain.
The atmosphere in the arena to Hanover was at the beginning behave. Although 49,000 spectators arrived and were “sold out” to announce the Lower Saxony. However, missing around 1000 Hanoverian Ultras, which normally initiate songs and choreographies. But the Ultras had decided to start the season, not to attend the matches of the professional team. Support for future 96-Reserve in the Regionalliga Nord.
It is a protest against the new club rules for the season tickets sales for their ancestral blocks. And so were in the first few minutes once only the terraces around 9,000 supporters of Schalke heard.
In the absence of his Ultras are 96 presented with only two accesses in the starting, the Chilean World Cup participants Miiko Albornoz, who had come from Malmö and Joselu. He came from 1899 Hoffenheim. Hanover was in the summer one of the most active Bundesliga clubs in the transfer market. The most expensive players were Joselu (five million euros) and Hiroshi Kiyotake (4.3 million / 1st FC Nuremberg).
The heavily indebted Schalke it had in the transfer market take things quietly. They gave the most money from Sidney Sam of Bayer Leverkusen, which cost 2.5 million euros. Sam had however, can not prevent the embarrassing cup exit at third-division club Dynamo Dresden on Monday.
With Höwedes and the second world champion Julian Draxler in the starting lineup had Schalke trying to get back on track in Hannover. Both had been missing in Dresden at the beginning, Draxler was only a substitute. Schalke tried to make the game fast. But it lacked the accuracy, usually landed the ball at the opponent or off. But efforts to do better than in Dresden were there.
In the 37th minute there was incidentally the first good scoring opportunity. Hanover’s new striker Joselu they had. The shot of the Spaniard from 20 yards went just to the left past the gate. 0: 0 score at the break. Both teams had played while engaged, but playfully disappointed.
It obviously took a few words of the coach, because after the break, the game finally took ride on. Especially the speech of Jens Keller must have been very insistent. For it were just played two minutes when Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting took off on Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, of the ball from about eight meters to 1: (47th) scored for Schalke 0 to score
Then it failed Schalke to win the game. So failed Choupo-Moting goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler, the world champion from Hanover (63). The revenged himself bitterly. Internal three minutes turned the game Hannover. Only ran Leonardo Bittencourt Kevin-Prince Boateng of it and crossed inward toward Edgar Prib, the good three meters to 1: 1 hit. Then Prib took off on Joselu, the 24 meters from the 2: 1 scored
By the second defeat within a few days, the pressure on Schalke coach Jens Keller.. Because the tasks are not lightweight. Next week, the FC Bayern in Gelsenkirchen is a guest. “I’m obviously extremely angry,” the coach said after the game in Hanover. His team have made individual mistakes and made the wrong decisions on the court. Captain Höwedes went even further: “We played too selfish.”
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