[Sports] Dynamo Dresden vs. Erzgebirge Aue

Some weeks ago someone suspected that I might be Dynamo's guardian angel, because they always won when I was there and they lost when I was not. I suppose, these times are over. After the Aachen desaster, Dynamo lost 0-3 against Nuremburg in a national cup game last week. That was not that bad, because Nuremburg plays in the major league and it is okay to lose such a game.

After being thrown out of the cup, it seems plausbile that the team now can concentrate on the league games. This seems necessary, as after having a little high in the beginning of the season, Dynamo has not won a game since the beginning of September. This weekend they reached the descending ranks for the first time this season and needed to win at home against Erzgebirge Aue to get out of them again.

To sum the game up: it was horrible. Dynamo did not even try to resist Aue's attacks. Consequently Aue scored their first goal after only 6 minutes. The rest of the game did not get even better, Dynamo could have lost 0-6 or 0-7, but our great goal keeper once again helped us. Unfortunately his help yesterday resulted in only 4 goals for Aue. Many fans started to exit the stadium after 70 minutes - they did not see Dynamo's goal of honor in minute 89. The final result of 1-4 sounds like a disgrace for all of us, but in fact it was even flattering.

What we saw yesterday was a team with a huge menthal problem. These guys cannot be that bad, they already won against Freiburg and Munich this season. But through the last weeks all you could see were players in fear of losing. No one wants to possess the ball, so they pass it over to someone else. No one dares to fight, so no one kicks the ball onto the goal. Very sad.

But wait: hope is not lost yet. Only one point more and we wouldn't be descending. There are still 23 games left until the end of the season. It must be possible to make it. The next opponents are not that frightening: on Friday Dynamo plays in Karlsruhe where they tied last year and won at home. After that we play at home against Unterhaching - this team is currently positioned even worse. Then follow matches in Ahlen and Saarbruecken (both teams in the lower part of the league) and the very important home matches against Cottbus and Rostock where we need to recover the honor lost to Aue yesterday.