Fortuna Düsseldorf missed the chance to put pressure on Holstein Kiel again and will instead have to prepare for relegation. The Fortunes were still proud of their performance in the draw in Kiel, and one scene caused discussion.
Couldn’t prevent Fortuna from falling behind early in Kiel: Düsseldorf goalkeeper Florian Kastenmeier (right). IMAGO/Lobeca
“First and foremost, congratulations to Kiel,” said Fortuna goalkeeper Florian Kastenmeier in the interview Sky First of all, the opportunity to appreciate the performance of the storks in view of their safe ascent. Andre Hoffmann, who “would have loved to be a party crasher today” with his team, also had to acknowledge Kiel’s performance without envy. “We haven’t lost 13 times now, we’ve won seven games from the last nine, and yet they’re five points ahead of us. Then we have no choice but to send warm congratulations.”
2nd Bundesliga, 33rd matchday
You didn’t want to bury your head in the sand because of the missed opportunity to get within two points again. According to Kastenmeier, Fortuna made a “huge game”: “That should give us courage for the next one and a half to two weeks.” After Benedikt Pichler’s early goal, he also gave a “huge compliment to the team for coming back in shape after two minutes.”
Another potentially decisive scene occurred just two minutes later. After a header from Vincent Vermeij to the hand of Patrick Erras, the referee Sven Jablonski decided against a penalty despite looking at the pictures. “Of course the decision is very questionable,” Kastenmeier made it unmistakably clear.
“We have been disadvantaged to some extent”
And Hoffmann also said: “It’s difficult for me to accept such a decision in retrospect.” His team was “certainly disadvantaged to some extent”, but they nevertheless “found their way into the game well afterwards” and were “calm on the ball”.
Despite controlling the game and a few opportunities that presented themselves, Fortuna now only has the hope that FC St. Pauli will lose its remaining two games, otherwise the Rhinelander will go into relegation, at least due to HSV’s defeat in Paderborn for sure is.
Although Fortuna would have “loved to have a real final next week because we already drove here with the conviction that we would catch the Kiel team”, Hoffmann hardly believes in the minimal chance anymore. But now they will try to give their own fans a win at the end of the season “and then see what it does in the end.”
2024-05-11 22:12:54
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