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#650359 Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching
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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

 

Ingolstadt are a good team so the defeat isn't a big surprise, but we failed to put on anything evaluable.

 

The next email in my inbox was the following:

Thank God.

 

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

 

Job done. It wasn't an enlightening performance, but we won nevertheless. Hasenhüttl slotted home the ball from a brilliant cross by PoM Felix Müller. 

 

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

 

See below.

 

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. 

#649995 Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching
hengiadi
2 years ago
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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:

He's only 17, but something tells me he will be our key to a successful season.

 

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

 
It seems our biggest problem during the pre-season was our actual opposition. We battered Zwickau, had a brilliant game. Matanovic scored a hat-trick on his debut. Mental.
Brilliant - he also claimed Player of the Week award.

 

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')

 

Me neither Vincent, believe me. We played very poorly, barely had anything up front. Lübeck scored a lucky goal from a rebound, but we didn't deserve a point to be honest. They also had a disallowed goal.

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. 
 
 
#649990 Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching
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Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching - Season 1 - Pre-season

 

See that bobsleigh in the crest? The club has a bobsleigh department as well, and had some Olympic and and world champion. Hope the football club will do the same.
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')
 
Well, that was grim. We couldn't attack, and couldn't defend. Vitesse are a much better team, but the way we played was..s**t.

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')

Wow. Our starting XI included mainly our second-string, but this is still unacceptable.

Friendly
SpVgg Unterhaching 1 - 1 Grasshoppers Zürich

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

I saw some Haching ultras in the stand when we scored the pen, and I felt they just KNOW we can actually score goals. Well, a goal, don't go plural yet. Grasshoppers' goal came from an error by Coppens, 

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 didn't have a shot on target. Jeez.

 

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. 

 

#649978 Climbing back with SpVgg Unterhaching
hengiadi
2 years ago
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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:

 

Hain can operate as a striker and an attacking midfielder. As we don't have too much options up front, he could be used as our main striker, but we'll see.
Sascha is smiling, but I am sure he doesn't want to play in the third tier too long. I can understand.
Stahl is our best midfielder on paper. His attributes telling me that he could punch some faces if anybody tackles a teammate a little harder.

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.