ZTo get in the mood for Shrove Monday in Mainz, the players of 1. FSV 05 prefer to go to Leverkusen. There they have already won three times in the past nine years to celebrate the three great carnival days, if the game plan wanted it that way. In 2014, coach Thomas Tuchel managed a 1-0 win, in 2017 under Martin Schmidt, today’s sporting director of the 05ers, a 2-0 win and on Sunday, in a particularly turbulent duel, the Werkself won 3-2. This time under the direction of Denmark’s Bo Svensson, who picked up another yellow card, the third of the season.
This time it was more of an en passant part of a turbulent argument in which referee Schröder seemed a bit too heated. The fact that he dismissed Amine Adli from Leverkusen when he rudely knocked Silvan Widmer off his feet in the penalty area (82′) was the right decision. With her, the Mainz victory was initiated in the 82nd minute. Substitute Marcus Ingvartsen didn’t miss the opportunity to take a penalty and thus sealed a pressure-resistant performance by his team.
Svensson, who became a party beast along with fifteen players on the 05er float on Shrove Monday, was “very proud” of his “stable” team. “That’s a good development,” he said, assessing the consistency in his team’s performances, which has noticeably increased recently. “When you see what you can achieve, that’s an obligation,” Svensson said to his players on the way to a week that started with the big break on Monday and should end on Friday with at least a work win against Mönchengladbach.
Dahmen in doctor’s costume
In order to stimulate the ambition of the players, who had been pushed back into the starting XI after a long injury or weeks without playing, the Dane had fielded the same eleven players as in the 3-1 home win over FC Augsburg. Among them the famous goalkeeper Finn Dahmen, 2021 part of the German U-21 European champions, who was calmly on the post between the posts as always. After Stach’s foul on Azmoun, the young stoic saved a penalty in a duel with Tapsoba (23′). No wonder Dahmen took part in the Shrove Monday parade as a first aid specialist on the square in a doctor’s suit.
Dahmen’s first penalty in his young Bundesliga career, which he saved, acted like an initial spark for a team that, according to sporting director Schmidt, had fought for victory “through willpower”. Caci’s opening goal (26′) was followed by Amiri’s equalizer (32′), but then Mainz scored again through Barreiro’s shot to make it 2-1 (45′ + 4′) before substitute Schick equalized again for the Werkself (58′). .). Since the Mainz team didn’t want to come to terms with a draw, they put the finishing touch to this entertaining football evening through Ingvartsen.
