After the 0:1 defeat against 1. FC Heidenheim, the worry lines at Düsseldorf’s Fortuna are getting bigger and bigger. If everything goes wrong, the Rhinelanders could drop low in the table at the weekend. However, coach Christian Preußer did not see everything in a negative light.
“We are not satisfied with the current situation. We want to win the game today and put some distance between us and the relegation place with the three points,” said Düsseldorf’s sports director Uwe Klein shortly before the game against Heidenheim. 90 minutes later, the Fortuna had lost 0:1 despite an attractive performance. Heidenheim, who were actually harmless, had punished the hosts’ poor use of chances in the second minute of stoppage time.
Fortuna coach Preußler was suitably miffed after the final whistle. They actually wanted to pull away from the bottom of the table, but now Fortuna are even deeper in the crisis. They wanted to make the leap towards the top of the table, “but you can only do that with the result, not with the way you play “, said Preußler after the game. “Of course it has to be in balance and we have to look how we shape the games. A point would have been deserved today, I think we could have won. But we have to deal with the result this week. “
The relegation places are getting closer
You’ll also be looking at what the competition is doing this weekend in Düsseldorf. Because if everything goes against the Fortunes and Aue, Hannover and Kiel win their games, the goal difference alone would separate the Düsseldorfers from the relegation place. Nevertheless, Preußler also saw positives: “I see the team and one or two others who played a good game today despite a longer break from the game. The team gives me the confidence that we will get out of the situation again.”
The next chance to do so comes on matchday 16, even if the task is anything but easy: it is to SV Darmstadt, who are in good form.
