Lok Leipzig suffers cup exit, faces uncertain future

Cup exit for the Oberliga leaders. Can happen. But it’s fatal if the season is now completely ruined.

Lok Leipzig loses 2-3 in extra time in the quarter-finals in Bischofswerda. Captain Djamal Ziane sums it up: “I don’t want to say embarrassed, but we definitely failed. This fits with the last few weeks and months. We have fallen back into old patterns. It wasn’t enough in terms of passion and fight.” The effect of the coaching change to Tomislav Piplica seems to have fizzled out again.

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Luca Sirch, who scored to make it 2-2, said: “Our goal was to go further, also for the fans who turned up in such large numbers. The season was generally difficult, we still had the goal of the cup and the derby. And now we’re out of the cup. We have to look at what caused this.”

Winning coach Frank Rietschel: “We wanted to attack again in extra time because we knew that Lok was vulnerable at the back. We also kept the individually strong offensive players like Djamal Ziane and Luca Sirch far away from our goal. Courage is sometimes rewarded.”

Lok – currently without a real president and with a completely insecure team – faces a difficult future. After all, the club can only theoretically get relegated. Jena is coming on Tuesday.

2024-03-24 10:03:44
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