SSV Jahn Regensburg missed the jump back to second place with the defeat in Heidenheim. “Annoying”, as Steve Breitkreuz noted.
Regensburg returned from Heidenheim empty-handed on Sunday. Instead of second place, they suffered a 3-0 defeat, with which not only Breitkreuz was unhappy. Also Mersad Selimbegovic. “We were well into the game and then we get the 0:1 out of nowhere,” explained the SSV coach after the game. The Upper Palatinate team conceded the goal “on a counterattack, we didn’t protect well,” Breitkreuz told “Jahn TV.
The Jahn were then really thwarted shortly before the break when David Otto was sent off for an assault on FCH goalscorer Kühlwetter on his return to his old stomping ground. “The red card is also annoying. A half-time outnumbered in Heidenheim, when you are already behind, is difficult,” said Benedikt Gimber. Also, “because Heidenheim are a very cool team”.
That was also the opinion of Breitkreuz, who also criticised the lack of “necessary luck”. Especially since the centre-back saw his team in the second half “partly better than the opponent with one man less”. At least “up until the blow to the neck, the goal against which they conceded 2:0, they did quite well”. Selimbegovic also found that Jahn “did well for being shorthanded” and “didn’t allow anything for a long time”, but then “made the wrong decisions” in front of goal.
Now it’s on to Werder Bremen, who landed a “liberation blow” in their 4-0 win over Aue. “That makes them all the more dangerous,” Breitkreuz noted. “When Bundesliga players are up for it again and have their confidence back, it makes it all the more difficult.” Otto, who contributed two goals and two assists in ten appearances, will definitely be missing in the effort to secure third place and keep Bremen at bay.
