0:1 against Augsburg, Mainz 05 is very close to the abyss

It is a sign of this Corona-time football professionals lay straight down a far greater Emptiness than in normal times. There is no incentive to Cheers by Fans, and perhaps a player like Moussa Niakhaté on Sunday afternoon would have been even better if he had also heard one or the other of displeasure expression, instead of only the stadium music played with the melancholy almost night classics "In the shadow of the Cathedral".

Daniel Meuren

sports editor.

So the 23-year-old Frenchman trudged after the 0:1 defeat against FC Augsburg a little bit disoriented over the place, while he would say good-bye normally with his Team, at least briefly, by the Fans. At some point, the Central defender came on his Odyssey to the opposite goal. He leaned on the post of that gate, on his team in the second half, relentlessly, but with no countable success storm was. And so a short dropout Niakhatés the crucial error remained in a typical relegation battle-duel, the lost, the Mainz against FC Augsburg with 0:1.

The Frenchman gave his opponent Florian Niederlechner after only 43 seconds, so much room, that this was placing the Ball safely out of the rotation. Niakhaté wanted to ask the former Mainz striker Offside, although behind him, several team members were closer to their own goal. It was one of those false choices, as you have the Rhine-Hesse in Collecting their 63 goals against again and again done in the course of the season.

coach Achim Beierlorzer went to Niakhaté to lift him up. "The players are disappointed after a game. You have invested a lot of. We must allow also that today we are disappointed,“ said Beierlorzer later. "It is not important that you lose in the disappointment, the sense of reality. We have it in our own Hand.“ In fact, the Mainz are, after the victory in Frankfurt is so confident of further success for the first time since the 17th century. To be able to round back to 15th place to the top left, again very close to the abyss. Fortuna Dusseldorf and Werder Bremen are as a table of the sixteenth and seventeenth, only three points and five goals behind-the-Rhine-Hesse, and Werder is next Saturday in the last home match in the Mainz Arena to host. During the week, the zero fives to compete in Dortmund, Germany.