[Sports] Dynamo Dresden - SpVgg Unterhaching

It was the final game. Dynamo's chair man had issued an ultimatum telling coach Christoph Franke that he was to leave when losing against Unterhaching. The players agreed that they needed to act against this and against their losing series with only 2 points from the last 8 matches. What hadn't they promised before yesterday's match? - Concentration, fight, the magic of football.

With this in mind friends and me went to the stadium once again to see Dynamo win eventually. Every series needs to be ended and hey - they could not really lose against Unterhaching, could they? 2 hours later we knew they could.

Terribly raining, the air at a temperature of about 3°C - yesterday evening was not everyone's favorite weather for a football match. That's probably the reason why only 12.213 visitors attended the match that could have been the last one in an epoch. The game they saw started like all the others during the last 3 months: the players appeared to play soccer but Unterhaching scored an early goal. But this time everything looked better. Only 5 minutes after the 1-0, Dynamo attacked and the ball crossing into the penalty area hit Unterhaching's Omodiagbe which then scored a wonderful goal of the week - into his own goal. 1-1.

Now that this happened, the players seemed to realize that this was their home game and the fans supported them as if this was the last day on earth. With this backing, another 7 minutes later Joshua Kennedy scored the 2-1 and Dynamo seemed to win this game. After this they however grew a bit tired or too self-confident. This was punished by Unterhaching's equalization right before the break. With a 2-2 after 45 minutes everyone agreed that this was not the end and we could win this match.

All the fight from the first half was unfortunately over right from the beginning of the second one. We suddenly saw the same team as ever: no one deared to stand against the opponents, no one wanted to play the ball, no one wanted to duel the others. It looked as if they just wanted this to go over and maybe score another goal with some luck.

Those who don't fight will not win. That's how an old saying goes and it became true in minute 65. All our players were in Unterhaching's half when a counterattack started and the ball flew onto Ignjac Kresic, our keeper. He ran out of his goal to kick the ball away, ran 10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters in front of it. This time however, he did not manage to hit the ball right - Unterhaching's forwarder was there and kicked the ball into our empty goal. 2-3. This also was the final score.

There is something people call the "third half" of the game. Normally this is the moment where all the nice people should be at home quick, because it is when the hooligans start to vandalize and fight the police men and women around the stadium. Nothing to be proud of, but not a problem of Dresden only. This time the third half consisted of one or two thousand fans not leaving the stadium, but celebrating their coach again and again. In my last post I supposed, that the fans were undecided about whether they liked him yet or not. Yesterday I saw that most people were in favor of him. The fans blame the players for losing the last games, not the coach.

When I got home I read in an online-magazine, that Frantisek Straka would probably become the new coach of Dynamo. Frantisek who? But then I remembered: he is a nice Czech guy who coached LR Ahlen until last October. This is the one who dismissed himself in Ahlen because he did not mentally reach the players. What the f*** could this man do here? If he really comes here, he will not have any beginner's advance. The people will want him to beat Cottbus and Rostock in the last home matches of the year. If this does not succeed, he will be the last man standing on a lonely position.

However, when I opened the newspaper this morning, Straka was not the only option anymore. Impressed by the fan's clear vote in favor of Franke, the Dynamo management might also decide to keep him at least until Christmas. This would give him another 4 opportunities to get the team back to business. I wish this to happen. Let's see...