Relief in Bielefeld after the first win of the season. The 1-0 win at VfB Stuttgart also prevented Arminia’s coach from moving further up the ladder in an inglorious statistic …
For once, no long wait, often enough later paired with great disappointment. Masaya Okugawa scored Bielefeld’s earliest goal of the season as early as the 19th minute, which would eventually hold true in Stuttgart until the end. It was also only the second game in which Arminia managed to take the lead. But unlike on Matchday 2 in Fürth, this time the team did not concede a 1-1 draw, but scored three points.
Much to the delight of Frank Kramer. “The passion with which we defended was extraordinary “, the coach paid tribute to his team and spoke of a fair result.
“Deserved, when you see that we hit the underside of the crossbar twice and headed the ball against the post once. We could have decided it earlier,” said the 49-year-old, citing the top chances that Amos Pieper, Andres Andrade and Janni Serra were unlucky to miss. The coach felt that his team could have been rewarded even more. “We always have to put in more effort than everyone else in the Bundesliga, play intensively and be determined. That’s what we were to the opponent’s goal. “
15 games for Gerland
After ten games without a win, Arminia were able to win again, which incidentally also prevented Frank Kramer from gaining further ground in an inglorious ranking. In the eternal ranking of the club’s coaches who have been allowed to continue without a win for the longest time without being fired, the football coach, who was hired in March of this year, is in third place, on a par with Gerd Roggensack. The former class striker also remained winless ten times in a row as DSC coach in the 1984/85 season without losing his job for it.
Arminia’s fan-voted “coach of the century” Ernst Middendorp even went twelve games in a row without winning in 1997/98. For the time being, the record that Hermann Gerland had to accept in the 1999/2000 relegation season remains unmatched for Kramer, as it once did for Roggensack and Middendorp: the Bielefeld team he coached waited in vain for the longed-for “treble” 15 times in a row.
