1. FC Nrnberg

[happy]

It's unbelievable, but we won...2:0 against Freiburg. Kluge and Mintal scored the goals in the 2nd half.
I have never seen such a crap 1st half of Nrnberg but the people around me said that it was even worse in the last matches. The 2nd half was a lot better and we were rewarded with the 2 goals.

Spiro played the whole 90mins and did very well, although he still had a little jet lag. He nearly scored an own goal but that was his sole mistake. He played very confidently.

 

[happy]

We are playing Koblenz away tomorrow afternoon.
Koblenz has lost 9:0 away to Rostock last week but hasn't lost at home for the last 20 matches...

We are likely to play with the same team as last week. So Spiro will play.
We have to win if we don't want to lose connection to the upper part of the league.

We have the chance to gain a lot of points during the next 2 weeks as we are just playing teams which aren't that strong - normally.

 

[Arabmariner]

Koblenz has lost 9:0 away to Rostock last week

Scores like that are very rare in professional football nowadays.Even poor teams are usually well coached and able to defend reasonably well.

Are Koblenz really that bad Happy?

 

[happy]

Koblenz has lost 9:0 away to Rostock last week

Scores like that are very rare in professional football nowadays.Even poor teams are usually well coached and able to defend reasonably well.

Are Koblenz really that bad Happy?

no, they aren't that bad as this result might say.
they haven't lost a single home match since Oct 2007 and they beat Kaiserslautern (which were top of the league at that time) 5:0 at home the week before they lost that high in Rostock...

 

[happy]

btwur former coach Hans Meyer has gone back to Mnchengladbach (Bundesliga 1) to prevent them from relegation. He has been with Mnchengladbach some years ago.

As he has a new job now, he and Nrnberg made a compromise that Nrnberg just has to pay 400,000 of his salary and he stops sueing Nrnberg.

 

[happy]

The victory last week didn't bring anything. Just played 1:1 in Koblenz...got a fantastic start and shot the 1:0 in the 1st minute. after the lead it was clear to me what will happen - as always: trying to keep the 1:0 and not doing anything to score again. so we missed scoring the 2nd and 3rd goal.
the match, respectively the performance got worse with every minute. so I decided to leave after 30mins (which was the right decision, just watched it on TV)...Koblenz scored the 1:1 in the 85th minute...

it was an embarassing performance. this was one of the worst matches (the 30mins) I have ever seen of Nrnberg.

Spiro played full time, Vidosic was on the bench.

We are playing Oberhausen on Wednesday at home - but due to a lecture without me. this is the first time in my "fan carreer" that I am totally unemotional concerning the upcoming matches :-\

just wondering where this will end this season ???

 

[happy]

Seem slike it is getting better regarding the results. We won 2:1 against Oberhausen at home yesterday which means that it is the 3rd match in a row without a loss.

Can't say anything about the match as I didn't go there.
I just know that Spiranovic played 90mins and that Mintal and Eigler scored. All 3 goals were in the 1st half.

 

[happy]

We are playing again today (2pmCET, 12am Australian time). This time away in Hamburg - but not against HSV but St. Pauli which is a suburb of Hamburg.
St Pauli isprobably the most cultic club in Germany. They are having a skull in their flag. Regarding marketing staff they are the most innvative ones as well.

Besides that all they are playing a real good football with a lot of fighting, especially at home. So this won't be easy for us at all. It will be a tough match.

Anyway, we need to win today to proceed further.
The line up will most likely be the same as last match which means that Spiro will play.

 

[loyalist]

We are playing again today (2pmCET, 12am Australian time). This time away in Hamburg - but not against HSV but St. Pauli which is a suburb of Hamburg.
St Pauli isprobably the most cultic club in Germany. They are having a skull in their flag. Regarding marketing staff they are the most innvative ones as well.

Dirty communists.

 

[happy]

We lost 1:0 to St Pauli which didn't play that well. But we were even worse. St Pauli didn't score the goal on their own - it was an own goal of Goncalves.
We did quite well in the 1st half but the 2nd one was very very bad, never seen a half time without any chance for Nrnberg to score a goal. They just started to fight within the last 5mins but with no outcome.
If you are mean you could say that they might have been somewhere else with their thoughts - maybe at the Reeperbahn...You probably know the famous Reeperbahn - this is the place where you can make party and all the hookers are...just 300m away from the stadium...

Spiro played 90mins but wasn't that good today. He has already shown that he can do a lot better.

They are now having a few days to practise corners, free kicks, tacklings and how to score a goal at training until we are playing Frankfurt at home next Friday evening.

 

[happy]

Another game, another chance to get 3 points.
We are playing FSV Frankfurt at home tonight.

The line up will be the same as last week, except Masmanidis for Mintal as he is suspended for 3 games due to his red card, and Breska for Engelhardt. So Spiranovic will play, Vidosic might be on the bench.

 

[happy]

It is unbelievable what is ongoing in Nrnberg.
We played a disastrous match against Frankfurt who are last in the league and just gained 1 point in any away matches - the match today was a 0:0 draw. We just has 3 chances to score but we missed all. Spiro headed over the bar.

Goncalves saw the red card as he offended the ref...

Pinola will be suspended afterwards as well as he hit his opponent's face with the elbow...

Spiro played 90mins.

A lot of the fans left the stadium after 80mins.

There was a attendence of nearly 38,000 today - 38,000 too much for a match that deserved not a single spectator

We are playing Ingolstadt away next week and have the derby against Fuerth in 2 weeks time.

 

[Bear]

I dont understand how a team who were so good such a short time ago are now so bad

Very sad

 

[happy]

I don't know...
But to be honest, I think that something is wrong within the team.They aren't a team...It's is now the 2nd coach that season but nothing has changed...

You might remember your first home match against Sydney this season which was a pretty poor performance of the Mariners. But compared to our performances, this was high high class...

Stupid as I am I am going to Ingolstadt next week and waste my money 

 

[happy]

It's derby time this week!!!!
Tomorrow (Sunday) we are playing Ingolstadt away and next week neighbour city Fuerth at home.

You probably know Ingolstadt, located halfway between Nuremberg and Munich, 80km away from Nuremberg, as the city where the Audis are built.
Ingolstadt got promoted to te 2nd league this year and they have won their last 2 matches 3:0, respectively 4:0.

We are in a very bad situation as we are running out of cental defenders. As you probably know, Spiro ruptured his syndesmoses ligament this wee and will miss up to 3 months. He had a surgery this week.
So we don't have a central defender left and need to play with one of the reserves...the coach wants Pinola to play as central defender and Engelhardt as a left defender.
As this is not enough it is not sure if Charisteas may play as he got injured as well this week.

Additionally, the board of directors and the supervisory board argued that week among each other. First via the media and then in a meeting with the result that no one is fired (which was supposed to happen).

After that match the real derby, the mother of all derbys in Germany, will take place in Nuremberg.
I will tell you more about it, its history and an anecdote next week.

I am quite curious about my first away match this season but I am not very confident that the team's performance will change.

 

[happy]

It's quite unbelievable but we achieved our first away win since 7 months.
We won 3:0 away in Ingolstadt.

The performance was a lot better than last week but there is still a lot to improve anyway.

Vidosic wasn't on the bench.

 

[dibo]

http://www.espnsoccernet.es/tables?league=ger.2

it's a tight competition, 1.fcn are suddenly back in the mix. promotion is not impossible, if they can string a bit of form together (and not argue in public!).

 

[clarence]

Hard to understand the German for that ladder, what's the 3 separate columns for? I see at the end there's Goal difference and Points, but it looks like they play some Cup matches or the like which also accrues into their overall Ladder (?).

 

[happy]

Hard to understand the German for that ladder, what's the 3 separate columns for? I see at the end there's Goal difference and Points, but it looks like they play some Cup matches or the like which also accrues into their overall Ladder (?).

Well, that's a quite strange ladder that dibo has posted here.
Actually, we don't have it in that much detail here in Germany as this is the Spanish version.

It's quite easy: the 1st column is the played matches in total (PJ), wins (G), draws (E), losses (P), GA is the goal difference and GP are the points.
The 2nd column shows the results in home matches (casa) and the 3rd one the away matches (fuera).

That's how we are writing it
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/spieltag/tabelle/

games in total, wins, draws, losses, goals, goal difference, points

 

[marinermick]

Hard to understand the German for that ladder, what's the 3 separate columns for? I see at the end there's Goal difference and Points, but it looks like they play some Cup matches or the like which also accrues into their overall Ladder (?).

casa is home games, fuera is away games and general is the total table