Bundesliga: Thomas Schaaf loses with Hannover 96 – SPIEGEL ONLINE

A depressing afternoon came to an end for Hannover 96, but Thomas Schaaf, the new coach of the club had not particularly worried. Calmly he poured his Darmstadt colleagues Dirk Schuster and then himself a cup of coffee. The seconds ticked by. Then Schaaf raised his eyes and looked expectantly at the press room of the Hanover stadium. Any questions

1: 2 had lost the Reds in the first game of new coach against the upstart from South Hesse. The defeat meant the fall on the bottom of the table for Schaaf’s team. The longtime Bremer successful coach had been received with great enthusiasm when he succeeded the failed Michael Frontzeck at the turn. He had generated optimism in Hannover. But the confidence is only once gone.

Schaaf even met the controversial situation with the serenity his own. The sinister standings did not seem to be reason for alarm. The fact that his team had lost to a direct competitor in the fight against relegation, Schaaf did not feel as a special offense. He asked when he took office to be patient. He has the audience set to a tough fight for survival. That has not changed even with the first defeat in the first game in his view. “If we win, we can eventually also see what the others are doing,” said Schaaf. Until then, it was necessary first of all, to look at yourself

. “The winner left the pitch – with security”

Schaaf made an effort , the defeat wrest good sides. “We have been very active, have played very well to the front,” he said about the initial phase, had gone in his team earned by Hugo Almeida in the lead. It looked as if fruchten the measures that had met during the winter break the club: a new coach, in addition to Almeida a striker, the Schaaf still knows from the common time at SV Werder

Even the. second winter access in the offensive, which has come from Hoffenheim Adam Szalai, contributed to a lively presentation of the Hanoverians at the beginning. “If we had continued to play consistently so, we would have gone win the match – certainly,” cried Schaaf. His team is on a good way, this knowledge, he moved from the initial stage.

As for the game forward, he was thus even correct. Defensively, however, there was a shocking mess when Schaaf’s team. Representative of these were the two goals from Sandro Wagner in the 31 and 47 minutes, which reached to victory for Darmstadt. The Hanoverian showed in the first game under the direction of the new Mann typical Schaaf Football: Storm in the attack, negligent in the coverage. The coach complained that his team the necessary determination have been wanting to capture one or even three points: “We have often said:.. Do you ever We haven’t security and clarity” Sometimes he had seen in his players “a question mark too much”. The self-confidence of the Hanoverian was injured after the worst season so far since the revival in 2002.

You should, however, as soon as possible will find in order not to lose the connection. Next Saturday we go to Leverkusen, then comes Mainz, then is the game in Dortmund on the program. Plenty of time for acclimatization has not Schaaf. After the defeat against a direct competitor, the team is even more under pressure.

Strange on acquisition of the former Bremer coach was that all the goals were scored by players who he once assisted at Werder. Also Darmstadt scored twice Wagner’s a former student Schaaf. “If I want to avoid that one player against my team could score a goal, who plays under me, then I could no longer work in the Bundesliga,” said Schaaf to. On trivialities he does not want.