Et was one of those magical evenings on which a previously rather inconspicuous-looking climber pointed out himself and his possibilities with luminous snapshots. The 3: 0 of DSC Arminia Bielefeld over VfB Stuttgart, which was too highly unusual, but nevertheless spectacularly played out, illustrated in spotlight and razor-sharp as in Ultra-HD that the East Westphalia, like their Swabian fellow climbers, have the format to be able to compete first-class when big Moments decide between victory and defeat.
The strongest team away from home until Wednesday (17 points) was defeated by Arminia partly with their own weapons in the counter actions, partly with Bielefeld’s persistence in close defense, which is now respected throughout the league. And when a goal seemed inevitable, as in Kalajdzic’s shot against the direction of Stefan Ortega Moreno (72nd minute), the fabulous Arminen goalkeeper was still able to parry the ball, even if it was with the heel, as in this case . The Bielefeld captain Stefan Klos could only be amazed like other people in the circus. “The one he got out of there,” enthused the 33-year-old scorer to make it 1-0 (27th), “was inhuman. My first thought was that I had never seen anything like it. Maybe that’s only possible with his knock-knees. “
VfB was left empty-handed after Klos’s goals, a belly own goal by Kempf (47th) and Doan (86th), even though he was equal over long stretches of this remarkable duel. The big difference had to do with Bielefeld’s callousness in the crucial moments, which VfB missed without its two top scorers, Wamangituka (nine hits) and Gonzalez (six), who were suspended after the fifth yellow card.
Envious look to East Westphalia
DSC Arminia, who needed time in their Bundesliga return season after eleven years in second division to find their way around the new ambience as a sovereign second division champion – with ten points ahead of VfB – bit by bit after seven defeats in a row from the first nine Play acclimatized. After ten points from the last five games and 17 points after the first half of the season, the Arminen are in fifteenth place in the table so firmly that the worst teams Mainz 05 and Schalke 04 by far on the relegated ranks 17 and 18 are ten points less in the fight for the class look jealously to East Westphalia.
This has mainly to do with the fact that the newcomer could rely on his robust defenses. With 24 goals conceded, Bielefeld is one goal better than the first half of the season, Bayern Munich. The fact that they have now also discovered scoring goals after a series of minimalist games – 1-0 at FC Schalke, 0-1 against Mönchengladbach, 1-0 against Hertha, 0-0 against Hoffenheim – is evidence of a maturing process that is pleasing to the East Westphalian perspective Knowledge leads to being able to assert oneself in the Bundesliga. With 13 hits, they are still bottom of the table in this category, but that doesn’t have to stay that way in the future.
An example of the new self-confidence on the “Alm” was the quick attack from back to front, which Klos completed in the best striker style to make it 1-0. “You once saw that we can also kick and play with pressure and tempo passages”, Ortega praised his attacking colleagues, who lived out their urge to move forward just as closely as the Bielefeld defenders under the direction of Amos Pieper their defense missions.
This is how you progress step by step if the whole thing is accompanied by realistic insights. Arminia’s trainer Uwe Neuhaus was asked whether he had ever looked upwards about his team’s best performance of the season so far. The 61-year-old Realo from Hattingen in the Ruhr area gave a dry answer, as is his way: “If the view up means place fourteen, I’ll do it.”
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