Does anyone see a pattern here?
1st away game, lost 5-2 to Greuther Fürth. 2nd away game, lost 4-1 to FCK. 3rd away game, lost 3-0 to Rostock.
So there is ground for hope. Although we're destined to concede 2 goals in Augsburg on the 19th, we will also, for the first time in the history of association football, score -1. This "antigoal" will therefore usher in an entirely new era in football physics. With the LHC at CERN down until next spring, Stani is almost certain to get the Nobel Prize, and researchers from far and wide will flock to Millerntor to study this new football phenomenon (if they can get tickets).
The resulting influx of money will enable us to complete the new stadium 3 years ahead of schedule, and maybe even buy a fucking defence.
Honestly, that was one of the most harmless, lacklustre performances I've seen from the team since... OK, since the Mainz game at the end of the last season, but still - it wasn't nice to watch, specially against a team with such "wonderful" support as Rostock.
Morena was back in the start line-up in central defence, with Gunesch moving to left back at the expense of Weigelt. Trojan remained captain, though, and managed to play the whole 90 minutes.
Rostock missed an opportunity to go one up after 6 minutes, when Kern misshot a cross from Retov, but for the first 30 minutes, it was a fairly even game, with Trojan shooting well past the left post after a solo, and Ludwig hitting a shot from 18 yards straight to 2nd-choice keeper Hahnel. Hain made a great save in the 28th minute, palming the ball off the line, but 2 minutes later, Rostock took the lead with a really daft goal.
Schindler crossed from the right - something he got to practise a lot during the game - after a slack pass from Eger and Bartels' shot hit the left post and bounced back towards Hain, who could only manage a reflex to flick it over his right shoulder, and Dorn reacted quicker than the players around him to knock the ball into the net.
We may have been slightly lucky not to concede a penalty in the 33rd minute, when the ball hit Hennings' arm - held very high - when he was going for a challenge in our area, but we managed to hold on for just one goal down at half-time, as Bartels (man of the match for me, unfortunately) headed narrowly past the right post just before the break.
My wish for the 2nd half was for Hoilett to come on for Hennings, and Stani, on his 39th birthday, did just that. I don't know what's up with our little H$Ver on loan - he of the 80mph shot which he never uses - but he's disappointed in every game I've seen him play, and he's (still) in the German U21 squad. Maybe he's just pining for the Temple of Darkness, poor guy.
Hoilett, on the other hand, makes an effort, and he did on Friday, even if it never came to much. He still needs to work on his passes, btw.
St. Pauli seemed to have been shocked by the goal, and never really got back into the game, partly due to Rostock's excellent and very deep defence. They could afford to just sit back and absorb what we threw at them, which to be honest wasn't much.
Ludwig came off in the 56th minute for Sako. I'd have brought on Schultz, or even Brunnemann, but wtf, it was Stani's birthday, and Mo didn't have such a bad game.
Rostock brought on Cetkovic for Dorn in the 70th minute, and he'd not been on the pitch for a minute before he got Rostock's second. It was a total defensive fuckup; firstly Morena failed in a challenge that looked more like an attempted body-check than an attempt to get the ball, then Rothenbach managed to neither tackle, clear nor block the shot from Bartels. Hain got his hand to the shot, but Cetkovic scored on the rebound, with Eger finally realising where he should have been, too late.
That was the game decided, as the way we were playing we could have gone on until midnight without scoring. Morena picked up a rib injury, and was replaced by Weigelt in the 78th minute, and then 3 minutes before time Hain managed to put the icing on the cake by fumbling an attempted clearance, and the ball dropped to Cetkovic, who (again) had no problem, scoring from 6 yards.
So we've dropped back to 11th, assuming Nürnberg don't beat Duisburg tomorrow. On the plus side, all the supporters in the league, apart from those at Rostock, are keen to see us at their ground.
St. Pauli - better than 1860, not as good as Fürth.
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