Der Club! The FCN thread 09/10 [R]

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

Well it wasn't a boring 0-0 tie but like most derby's it ended up in a draw 1-1in front of 15,700 fans. The first half ended up 0-0 and Vidosic broke the stalemate with a 47th minute goal with the assist coming from Bieler. Reisinger tied it up for Furth in the 57th minute.

Here was the initial starting lineup for Der Club:

R. Schäfer - Diekmeier, Maroh, Pinola, Bieler - Reinartz - J. Judt, Kluge, Gygax - Vidosic, Eigler

Subs as follows:

76. Bunjaku for Gygax
85. Mnari for Vidosic
90. + 1 D. Reinhardt for Diekmeier

Good news for 1FCN is that St. Pauli defeated Mainz 2-0 which means that Nurnberg remains in 3rd place now only one point behind Mainz for that coveted second position and automatic promotion to the Bundesliga. Kaiserslautern won the Friday and Aachen lost on the road on Friday. Freiburg won and secured themselves a slot in next years Bundesliga. 1FCN plays at home this Wednesday against Osnabruck who are one spot outside of the relegation zone. 1FCN I believe winning their final 3 games should take over the second position since Mainz will be hard pressed to win all 9 remaining points.

Here is the classification after 31 matches

Freiburg 64
Mainz 54
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1FCN 53
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Furth 52
Kaiserslautern 52
A Aachen 49


Er Pichi

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

Midweek games this week and with todays results 1FCN clearly benefitted with Aachen defeating Kaiserslautern at home 1-0, and TSV 1860 Munich netting a tie on the road against Wehen, puts them 3 points out of relegation which may come in handy on the last week of the season when Der Club plays Munich at home. If Munich is safe by then life would be much easier that day for 1FCN. Other scores from today are: Rostock 3 Augsburg 3, Duisberg 1 Oberhausen 1.

Tomorrows starting lineup for the match against Osnabruck looks like this, good news is that Mintal and Boakye will be back from their suspensions:
R. Schäfer - Diekmeier, Maroh, Pinola, Bieler - Reinartz - Kluge, Mintal, Gygax - Vidosic, Boakye. KO is 1730.

Standings after todays matches looks like this:


Freiburg: 31 games 64 pts
Mainz: 31 games 54 pts
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1FCN: 31 games 53 pts
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Furth: 31 games 52 pts
Kaiserslautern: 32 games 52 pts
A Aachen: 32 games 52 pts

Mainz is at home against Frankfurt. Furth is on the road against Champions Freiburg who may not field their big boys.

Er Pichi

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

Half time at the Easy Credit Stadion with Der Club up 1-0 thanks to a first half goal by Mintal in the 16th minute with Boakye getting the assist. Starting lineup for Nurnberg: R. Schäfer - Diekmeier, Reinartz, Pinola, Bieler - Mnari - Kluge, Mintal, Gygax - Eigler, Boakye

Other scores at half time:

Mainz 1 Frankfurt 0
Freiberg 0 Furth 0
Ahlen 0 Koblenz 0

That being said with the scores as they are Mainz is still ahead of 1FCN by one point with 57, and Furth now trails 1FCN by 3 with 53 points.

Er Pichi

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

60th minutes still 1-0, good news from Mainz Frankfurt tied it up 1-1 in the 48th minute.

Er Pichi

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

Final Score 1FCN 2 Osnabruck 0

1-0 Mintal (Boakye) 16'
2-0 Mintal (Vidosic) 86'

Subs:
62' Vidosic for Boakye
69' Risse for Gygax
88' Judt for Kluge

Attendance 33.5K

Other Final Scores:

Mainz 2 Frankfurt 1
Freiburg 0 Furth 0
Ahlen 1 Koblenz 1

Freiburg: 65 pts
Mainz: 57 pts +19
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1FCN: 56 pts +21
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Furth: 53 pts +14
A Aachen: 52 pts +16
Kaiserslautern: 52 pts +8

Er Pichi

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

Well although they did take a point away from Rostock it wasn't enough based on the Mainz result. 1FCN drew 0-0 in a match that only saw 6 shots on goal with Schafer only having to make one save. Furth figuring they didn't have a shot for promotion decided to screw over their Franken neighbors and lost at home 0-2 to Mainz which now gives them a 3 point lead over 1FCN and tied on GD. So unless Mainz loses at home against Oberhausen who are safe and have nothing to play for, they will retain the final automatic promotion slot to the Bundesliga. 1FCN has already qualified for the play off for promotion to the Bundesliga and next week are at home against 1860 needing a win and a Mainz loss to get that coveted second promotion slot. Good news for Der Club is that 1860 is basically safe from relegation as they are up by 3 points over the Osnabruk the 16th place team and have a favorable GD of 15.

Here was the lineup and performance points from Kicker: R. Schäfer (3) - Diekmeier (2,5), Reinartz (2,5), Pinola (1,5), Bieler (3) - Mnari (3) - Kluge (4), Mintal (4,5), Gygax (4,5) - Boakye (3,5), Eigler (4)

The following players were subbed:

46. Vidosic (5) for Eigler
81. Bunjaku for Boakye
90. J. Judt for Kluge

If the Bundesliga ended today then 1FCN would be playing Arminia Bielefeld who is in 16th place with 27 points and a GD of -27, they are tied on points with 17th place Energie Cottbus who have a GD of -30. 15th place Borussia has 30 points with a GD of -23.

The last week of the season has those 3 teams playing the following matches:

Cottbus-Leverkusen
Arminia-Hannover
Borussia-Dortmund

I guess we'll know by Saturday late afternoon who Der Club will be playing in the playoff unless a miracle occurs in Mainz!!

Er Pichi

Re: Der Club! The FCN thread 08/09 [R]

Well it looks like Der Club will be taking on Energie Cottbus in the two leg playoff for promotion to the Bundesliga. 1.FCN took care of 1860 Munich 2-1 with Eigler scoring in the 30th minute on a Gygax assist and Mintal bagging a goal four minutes later with another Gygax assit. Mainz easily trashed Oberhausen 4-0 to finish in second and gain automatic promotion to the Bundesliga.

The promotion matches will be played on 28 May with Der Club on the road and then on the 31st at home, which is preferrable.

Cottbus in their last 5 games won 1 match drew 1 match and lost 3, and in their last 10 matches won 3 drew 1 and lost 6 matches. So obviously they are not playing the best of football of late. 1FCN won 3 matches and drew two in their last 5 games and in the last 10 won 7 matches, drew 2 and lost 1.

Er Pichi