The fewest defeats of the entire 3rd league and especially the second best defensive of all 20 clubs. These are the recent top scores of promoted SV Waldhof Mannheim, who recently quarreled with the referee because of a denied equalizer just in the recent home defeat against the Würzburger Kickers – it was the first and only defeat of the season.
Much more serious is the fact that coach Bernhard Trares is currently haunted by an incredible injury misery. During the week, ten players were absent in training. For the tenth league game of the season is also expected maximum return from the battered Gianluca Korte.
Thus, Mannheim against Rostock, according to odds of bookmakers by no means the big favorite, especially since the Ostseestädter last experienced a strong upward trend. Hansa has taken eight out of twelve possible points in the last four matchdays and hoisted himself from a relegation place to a single-place place, which is quite relevant for the prognosis at Mannheim against Rostock.
In addition, the four-time East German champion in the last away win even leaders could defeat Brunswick 2-1. Thus speaks in our eyes at Mannheim against Rostock little for the tip on the home win.
Mannheim:
Exactly a quarter of the season is completed in the 3rd league and the interim conclusion falls for newly promoted SV Waldhof Mannheim in the return to professional football after 16 years of abstinence consistently positive. Four wins, four draws and only one defeat of the season give the square dodgers a solid sixth place in the table. The gap to a direct promotion space is also only three meters.
However, it would be highly presumptuous to aim at this because of the current staff situation. Finally, not only missing the second league experienced new signing Mohamed Gouaida, who just like Raffael Korte and Mounir Bouziane injured went into the 2019/20 season, but coach Bernhard Trares had in the coach during the week to say no more than ten injured players.
Among them important cornerstones such as goalkeeper Markus Scholz, captain and defender Kevin Conrad, playmaker Gianluca Korte, who with muscular problems but at least would be a candidate for 30 to 45 minutes, and top scorer Valmir Sulejmani. Most recently, the rest of the team away in the 3-0 victory in Uerdingen was closed and fought with three dream goals the next “Big Point”. Overall, the many failures in the not so well positioned on the upstarts, however, can hardly be compensated.
The Waldhöfer were even forced to carry three junior players during the week. Finally, only four healthy players under 23 are available to Bernhard Trares, which is not enough in the 3rd league.
With Sandro Loechelt, who was once in the Waldhöfer squad earlier this season and has even come in, Patrick Hocker and Cedric Braun are primarily candidates for the paper, which makes the pressure on the remaining players all the bigger.
After all: With four points ahead of eighth place would be the case in another home defeat not too big. After the upcoming away game at Viktoria Köln also follows the next international break, in which the packed military hospital could equalize something. And who knows – maybe the node will burst at the still scoreless Sulejmani-representative Kevin Koffi.
Rostock:
For FC Hansa Rostock too, the interim conclusion after the first quarter of the 2019/20 season is positive overall. Although the cog is in the meanwhile eighth year of third-league affiliation not as hoped for in the promotion fight, but at least the relegation places left with a bang.
Was the start of the season still overslept and was the four-time East German champions after five matchdays on a direct relegation zone, so led the strong yield of eight out of twelve possible counters from the last four league games, the Baltic Sea dwellers back to a single-digit place. An overall very strong run, especially as Rostock could even win away at the then league leaders Eintracht Braunschweig 2-1 – a result that has certainly hardly anyone on the list.
The fact that gold is not all that glitters was shown most recently by the 1-1 draw against Zwickau, in which Hansa Rostock was defensively stable, but could hardly create a penalty area scene himself. All the more the cog must now increase, because the “Buwe” bring finally the second best defensive of the 3rd league.
Thus, Pascal Breier and Aaron Opoku are in impressive form, while Jens Härtel, in contrast to colleague Berhard Trares, has to deal with significantly less injury worries.
So missing with Lukas Scherff, Mirnes Pepic and Felix Engelhardt, although the four-time East German champion three important players, but all three are already in the build-up training. And just Pepic representative Nikolas Nartey was one of the most prominent players on the pitch in the 1-1 draw against Zwickau last Sunday and dressed as the interface between defense and opening game as routinely as if he had been a regular from the start. In Mannheim, he should be more than just the emergency solution …
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1,65
