The closest opponent can be seen “what you can do with good support and calm,” says Patrick Glöckner about Viktoria Cologne. It would now be unfair to say that he would have said this in comparison with his new employer, to the TSV 1860 Munich, of course he did not. It is only worth mentioning that he himself got to know this club near his Bonn homeland rather restlessly. He had been head coach there in the 2018/19 season, except for the last matchday. Before that, he was, standing in first place, was replaced by the then U19 coach named Jürgen Kohler and thus formally brought the rise that he had worked out. “It was very instructive for me as a coach,” says the 48-year-old two days before he returned to the Höhenberg sports park.
These apprenticeships of the new head coach will probably help the sixties, because they are currently not the first, but according to Glöckner “blatant outsider” in Cologne (Saturday, 2 p.m.), “we clearly play against relegation”. He was not brought to play this current defensive football, but “at the moment it’s all about points,” he says. But this also includes keeping Patrick Hobsch in the team. When the rumor came up shortly before Glöckner’s commitment that the attacker might be able to go again after six months, Sixzig didn’t have much to say at first.
Now Glöckner is the bearer of the clear message: “It was important to me that he stayed. It has maximum quality in the sixteen ”, you could see that before the 1-1 equalizer on Saturday against VfB Stuttgart II. Therefore, it was “decided that we will not let him go …” – after a short break, Glöckner adds: “… or: the player went with it.” But it could also have been the case that there was no adequate replacement for Hobsch led to Giesing. Morris Schröter, who had to help out in the back of the four at the back of the Glöckner debut, extended his contract by one year. Schröter briefly played under Glöckner with Hansa Rostock. The extension can be understood as a signal that Schröter sees a perspective from this trainer at this coach.
The short -term perspective for the club: Glöckner has to further improvise in the relegation battle. Tim Danhof returns after injury, but the central defenders Jesper Verlaat (soon) and Raphael Schifferl (not soon) are not yet. This makes it a little more difficult to achieve the next goal with the team: to play with more confidence. But as Glöckner himself says: “You always have to have hope.” He is not alone. 1310 fans bought tickets for this away game in Munich alone.
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