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Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching - Season 1 - October / Part 1

Our campaign continues with the following fixtures:

Igor Matanovic was the runner-up for the Player of the Month award:

3. Liga, Matchday 3

FC Ingolstadt 04 3 - 0 SpVgg Unterhaching

3 October 2020
Audi Sportpark
Attendance: 7210

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppens - Dombrowka, R. Müller, Greger, F. Müller - Fuchs, Hufnagel - Stahl, Hain (Bandowski 57'), Heinrich (Marselier 57') - Matanovic

The next email in my inbox was the following:

On deadline day, we have landed Paul Will - the 21 year old joins Unterhaching on a season-long loan:

This signing wrapped up our transfers for the summer, with no departures - we tried to sell players as we are already spending over the wage budget, but without any success. Now onto the next game..

3. Liga, Matchday 5

SpVgg Unterhaching 1 - 0 SV Meppen

10 October 2020
Sportpark Unterhaching
Attendance: 4051

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppens - Dombrowka (Ehlich 65'), R. Müller, Greger, F. Müller - Fuchs (Will 65'), Marselier - Stahl, Hain, Heinrich - Hasenhüttl

Though we won, fan day was a disappointment, so the board isn't that happy. I don't know who expected us win by 3-4 goals with free-flowing attacking football, that should take time. We go to Saarbrücken for the next game. They are in 16th place at the moment, but I expect a haaaaaard game.

3. Liga, Matchday 6

1 FC Saarbrücken 2 - 0 SpVgg Unterhaching

17 October 2020
Ludwigsparkstadion
Attendance: 4147

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppens - Dombrowka, R. Müller, Greger (Grauschopf 43'), F. Müller (Bandowski 75') - Fuchs, Hufnagel - Stahl, Hain, Heinrich (Marselier 75') - Matanovic

We need to buck up our ideas as this path we are on will get us to the lower divisions. Actually we had a nice number of shots against Meppen and Saarbrücken, but till we couldn't mark a man, we will not winning games. Leaders Duisburg will take a trip to Sportpark Unterhaching in 3 days, then we play against 1860 München, also at home. Might get my CV from my drawer. 

Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching - Season 1 - September
 

After a good-looking pre-season, we finally get underway. We have two games in September: 

There wasn't too much transfer activities yet, but we managed to loan Igor Matanovic from St. Pauli:

3. Liga, Matchday 1

FSW Zwickau 1 - 4 SpVgg Unterhaching

20 September 2021
Stadion Zwickau
Attendance: 5598

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppens - Dombrowka, R. Müller, Greger, F. Müller - Fuchs, Hufnagel (Marselier 61') - Stahl, Hain, Heinrich - Matanovic

Our Under 19 team started their campaign as well, and though they lost against 1860 München, a guy named Leonard Grob scored two for Unterhaching. He is with our first team already:

3. LIga, Matchday 2
SpVgg Unterhaching 0 - 1 Lübeck 

26 September 2021
Sportpark Unterhaching
Attendance: 3439

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppens - Dombrowka, R. Müller, Greger, F. Müller - Fuchs, Marselier (Stierlin 72') - Stahl, Hain, Heinrich - Matanovic (Grob 72')

These two games wrapped up the first month:

Could be better. We will have 6 matches in October; we will meet our local rival 1860 München, and league leader Duisburg as well. 

Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching - Season 1 - Pre-season

Our pre-season started with a fixture against Eredivisie side Vitesse

Friendly
SpVgg Unterhaching 0 - 3 Vitesse

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppers - Dombrowka, Grauschopf, Greger, Müller - Fuchs, Stahl (Richter 55') - Hufnagel, Heinrich (Marselier 75'), Bigalke (Hain 26') - Hasenhüttl (Ehlich 75')
 

We have a casualty as well..

Friendly
SpVgg Unterhaching 0 - 4 Leeds United

SpVgg Unterhaching: Kroll - Ehlich, Müller, Weizmüller, Bandowski - Stierlin (Richter 72'), Hufnagel (Schröter 82') - Stahl, Krauß, Hain - Marselier (Müller 54')

Friendly
SpVgg Unterhaching 1 - 1 Grasshoppers Zürich

SpVgg Unterhaching: Coppens - Dombrowka, Greger, Grauschopf, Bandowski (Müller 90+2') - Fuchs, Marselier - Richter, Mensah, Heinrich - Hasenhüttl

Friendly
SpVgg Unterhaching 0 - 3 Sion

SpVgg Unterhaching: Kroll - Turtschan, R. Müller, Greger, F. Müller - Madsen (Stahl 69'), Hufnagel - Stierlin, Krauß (Kaltner 90+1'), Hain - Schröter
 

We finish our preparation for the season with a nice defeat. Our main problem is that we cannot do anything right in front of the goal. Both side of the pitch.
I think we are fully ready. Don't know for what, but we are. 

Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching - Season 1 - Preview
 

Really hope those eyebrows will still be raised at the end of the season.

The squad I have inherited is not that bad, but my assistant tells me we have a number of weaknesses. With a transfer budget of a nice-looking 0€, loans and free transfers are the options we have. 

Unterhaching's main characters are:

Our schedule for the pre-season is the following:

3. Liga will start on 20 September with a trip to Zwickau, so we have about a month to get ready for a long season.