Et was a perfectly shaped door as if made from one piece. As emerged from the teaching material chapter, how to get to a degree quickly, technically and decisively. “Ball acceptance and ball take-off like from a school book”, judged “Lilien” head coach Torsten Lieberknecht in an interview with the FAZ. He nodded appreciatively, as if the thought of this hit on Schalke still made him feel good two weeks later.
Was that really Mathias Honsak, who got to the ball in front of the penalty area, tunneled the first opponent, dodged the slides of the second and third and pushed the ball past the goalkeeper falling out into the net? That Mathias Honsak, who enraptures fans and coaches with his speed and technique, but can also torment fans and coaches with his weak nerves and weakness in shooting goals. You don’t know what you’ll get from the Viennese.
The spark of Honsak, who can accelerate the ball enormously on the foot and thus create effective offensive scenes. Or the desperate and despondent Honsak, who doesn’t get his horsepower on the lawn and makes one wrong decision after the next. It is true that the constant appearance is not the thing of the 1.88 meter tall but slender flank player.
Powerful striker duo
In the midst of the stable high at SV Darmstadt 98, Honsak, whose contract will probably be extended shortly, is also able to set highlights in these weeks. The beautiful goal to make it 2-1 at Schalke (final score 4-2) was the 24-year-old’s first this season. For an offensive player who was on the field in every game, the first goal on matchday 13 is “a bit late for my taste,” says Honsak. “I know that I’m not as callous in front of the goal as the strikers.”
With Philip Tietz (ten goals) and Luca Pfeiffer (nine), the Darmstadt-based company currently has an extremely powerful striker duo in their ranks. The quota of the two covers the fact that the other offensive players at SVD don’t hit much. He “doesn’t want to be stressed by it”, says Honsak and knows that the coach is at his side. Lieberknecht thinks a lot of the Austrian, who was once loaned to Holstein Kiel by RB Salzburg and then firmly committed by SVD in the summer of 2019. The football teacher from the Palatinate wants to work with Honsak to ensure that he slows down his pace in the game at the right moment in favor of more determination and clarity.
“Honsi has everything to have a successful career. We are working on the speed of his perception and action so that he recognizes the rooms and knows how to use his speed correctly, ”explains Lieberknecht. Maybe already with renewed success on Saturday (1.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the 2nd Bundesliga and on Sky), when the top second division game takes place in the stadium at Böllenfalltor. “It will be an outstanding game for the fans and for us,” said Honsak before the duel with front-runner FC St. Pauli.
The 13,000 tickets for the match of two of the league’s strongest attacking teams were sold out within a few minutes. With the possible fifth home win in a row, the leap to a promotion position beckons. “We”, says Honsak, “are on a really good wave that won’t let up and we don’t want to fall off either.”
