Arminia Bielefeld turned the tables at the eleventh attempt. It wasn’t just captain Fabian Klos who was relieved after the 1:0 win at VfB Stuttgart Coach Frank Kramer was effusive in his praise of his team.
Kramer, who was demonstratively backed by sporting director Samir Arabi during the week, raved about his team’s strong performance to “Sky “: His charges had shown a “crazy team spirit” and “marched like lunatics”. The 49-year-old spoke of a deserved victory and was proud of how they had bitten into the game. “It was clear that it wasn’t going to be easy, so we had to really bang against it. “
I’ve been here a long time, I can handle the pressure, it might not have been that easy for some other guys.
Great relief was also felt by Klos, whose initial summary was short and sweet: “First goal chance taken and then defended mercilessly as a team.” The striker, who had once again worked tirelessly, admitted that the winless streak had “put a strain on everyone, on the whole club”. “I’ve been here for a long time, I can handle the pressure, maybe that wasn’t quite so easy for a few other guys, for them it makes me immensely happy. “
Arminia lets the decision lie: “That’s just Bielefeld “
The fact that DSC could only celebrate the golden goal scored by Masaya Okugawa (19th) even made Klos smile. After three aluminium goals in the final phase (Andres Andrade 71st, Amos Pieper 83rd, Jannik Serra 86th) and his own missed big chance (90th +5th), he said succinctly: “I said to our co-trainer: That’s just Bielefeld.”
Was the discussion about Kramer an issue in the team? “None at all. We work with the coaching team every day and try to improve every day, there was a lot of room for improvement at the beginning of the season. And there’s still room for improvement in a number of areas, but today was the first step,” Klos was pleased to say.
