Hannover 96: Coach Leitl in Hot Water After Cup Failure

Pulverfass Hannover 96!

After the embarrassing cup failure at third division Sandhausen, the fuse burns. Despite a 2-0 and 3-2 lead, coach Stefan Leitl’s professionals (45) didn’t get the first-round game in the second division relegated team over time.

Will it be tight for Leitl?

Not excluded. With the messed up second half of last season, Leitl lost a lot of credit. Nine games without a win, only four threes, but 37 goals and 16th place in the second half of the table. Everything should be better now.

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Boss Martin Kind (79) lost his nerve after the first (!) day of the game: “If I said everything I think, then we would have war!” He nailed wildly – against coach, sports director Marcus Mann (39) and the crew.

Dangerous Mixture!

No win against Elversberg (2:2), stolen victory in Nuremberg (2:2), now out of the cup and 11th place in the league – the impatient boss opened the coach discussion 10 days ago.

Leitl tries to remain calm: “I’m not worried about my job because I’m not afraid. Everything else is not at my discretion.”

The coaching discussion has also long since arrived in the team. Cup captain Phil Neumann emphasized after the Sandhausen bankruptcy: “We messed that thing up today.”

Defense star Marcel Halstenberg suspects that 96 is about the coach again: “Yes, of course that will probably happen.” But the ex-national player guarantees: “We are behind the coach, behind the coaching team.”

“It’s crazy,” says Halstenberg after the cup knockout Irre that at 96 after three games there is speculation about the coaching job again.

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Bochum (in Bielefeld) or Werder (Viktoria Cologne) even made a fool of themselves as first division teams with weaker third division clubs, the coach is not nagged at. And the Reds are undefeated in the league, having been cheated out of victory by the referee Alt in Nuremberg. Otherwise the Reds would now be in 5th place instead of 11th.

“We need results!”

Also knows sports director Mann, who was furious after the cup: “That must not happen to us, especially not with this game.” But he has also been in Hanover for more than two years at Kind-Klub 96. Mann: “Independent we need results from any discussions now.”

It’s pressing – and it’s going to be difficult. On Saturday, the Leitl squad has to go to Rostock to see the championship leader. Hansa won against Elversberg and Nuremberg. And a week later, promotion favorite HSV, currently third, comes to the sold-out 96 Arena. Then it goes to Leitl’s former club Fürth, then there is an international break.

A dangerous mixture for the coach!

2023-08-14 04:23:49
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