At FC St. Pauli they can claim that they can easily keep up with any Bundesliga competitor, at least musically. As a good host, each opponent’s club anthem sounds before kick-off and booms as the teams arrive AC/DC with “Hells Bells” through Hamburg’s Millerntorstadion, and the halftime sound of “Antifa Hooligans” exudes an authentic punk charm. The shouting and guitar riffs in “Song 2” are particularly popular among fans Blur. However, as a goal anthem, this song is also subject to strict restrictions this season. Of course, it only echoes through the area when the home team scores a goal. And that happened exactly zero times until Friday.
St. Pauli’s coach Alexander Blessin explained that we could “tick the box” in this matter, making it clear through his facial expressions that he wasn’t just annoyed by his own lack of goals. But above all from the debates about it. In any case, to Blessin’s satisfaction, further ticks were put on the Paulian to-do list: the Kiezkickers scored a whopping three (pun intended!) Millern goals against Holstein Kiel, final score 3-1. The lead over the fellow promoted team was increased to a comparatively comfortable six points. And the authorship of the goals also contained an uplifting message from St. Pauli’s point of view: After the hard-working Greek defender Manolis Saliakas broke the spell with a powerful shot (25th minute), the strikers Morgan Guilavogui (56th) and Johannes Eggestein (85th) reported their goal debuts this season, with Eggestein having previously set up the first two goals. The offensive actions were initiated by dribbling and ideas from their attacker colleague Oladapo Afolayan.
But what initially sounds exhilarating and exciting was actually a more standard football game that presumably left numerous bruises on the protagonists’ shins – and that could only create a few moments of tension on its own. Exceptions: St. Pauli goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj, who initially quite inexperiencedly brought down a Kiel player in the penalty area, but saved Fiete Arp’s penalty (45th). As well as referee Felix Zwayer, who denied the Kiezklub a penalty after a kick on defender Hauke Wahl and didn’t want to watch the scene again. “I’ll swallow it,” said Blessin, although he did have to raise objections to the content of this decision. However, St. Pauli’s coach did not want to try to interpret the matter any longer than necessary. It seemed more important to him to praise his offensive trio (“everyone was rewarded”), to underline his team’s enormous hard work (“100 percent performance”) and to reveal his emotional world (“overjoyed”).
Holstein coach Marcel Rapp once again misses the “footballing power” of his team
However, Blessin was not the only coach who made realistic deductions from this game. The same also applied to Marcel Rapp from Kiel, a friend of Blessin, with whom he used to play together at SC Pfullendorf in the Regionalliga Süd. Rapp explained: “We were intense, ran – but I have to admit that we didn’t have the necessary football penetration.”
The 90 minutes once again documented in clear images that the St. Paulians are in a position to at least challenge opponents of all kinds if the players stick to Blessin’s defensive guidelines and get a little tangled up front. The Kiel team, on the other hand, seemed increasingly overwhelmed recently. They don’t lack a coherent plan, because the trainer Rapp is also a recognized inventor in the industry. They simply seem to lack the quality that is needed to put these plans into practice. The “Storks” concede an average of 2.6 goals per game and were told of their displeasure by some of the fans who had traveled with them on Friday. In the Kiel local press, style criticism and demands for winter additions are written down more and more clearly – a parallel to the mixed situation at the Kiezklub, which, however, has moved into the upper house with a more durable substance.
Nevertheless, it was a rare irony of fate that a duel between these two clubs was scheduled on the consumer frenzy Black Friday. Because recently you could listen to their sports directors, St. Pauli’s Andreas Bornemann and Kiel’s Carsten Wehlmann, again and again, how they served the deep German desire for debt brakes and black zeros: Investments, yes, but please only with caution, argue the austerity masters Bornemann and Wehlmann . Both avoided almost every risk in the last transfer summer, and little to no money was spent on new players. After Kiel’s raven-black Friday, it must be stated for the time being: a strict budget plan is by no means a value in itself.
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