Second League: The once great 1. FC Nürnberg teetering on the brink

The face of Jens Keller was the Situation of his team adequately. The coach of the 1. FC Nürnberg looked so glum, as the descent was no longer to prevent already. So far it is not yet, but the "Club" logs before the "endgame" at SV Wiesbaden to blow again from the abyss. And so Keller said: "We need to go beyond the limits. I have communicated to the team and live for it. I'll go with a broad chest in front.“

The sound is more like whistling in the forest, under threat of a second relegation to the third League after 1996. Before the last three season of the "Club" 33 points, has rank 16, point is in relegation with the Karlsruher SC at # 15. On Tuesday (18.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-Liveticker 2. Football-Bundesliga and Sky) but could be the Swiss franc, only the Penultimate: In the case of a Bankrupt at Wehen Wiesbaden, 31 points, rank 17. "We go there to win the game, but we will not run into the open knife," says Keller.

It is not so, that the mischief would not have arisen. As to the 13. Round sport Board of management, Robert Palikucas desire to coach Damir Canadi had to go, had slipped of the "Club" just on the table 14, has recovered, he in the since then, 18 Games have never, on the contrary, Only four of the victories have come under the basement, only one Play in the past ten – and none after the Corona-forced break. In fact, the change of coach has brought to the middle of November, exactly nothing.

"There are situations in which one lies on the ground. But I am in my life, always stood up, and so we will rise now,“ said Keller after the defeat on Saturday in the 266. The Derby against the Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth (0:1). This optimism, he said, of course, already in the last season – and failed nonetheless, when you are going to save the FC Ingolstadt. After a twelve Play and six rounds before the end, he was released, the Schanzer from rose.

But how bad will not come'Yes, or? "We are going to stop," says Palikuca. Really? Palikuca has not convinced in his first year. Only one thing is certain, therefore, how the "Nürnberger Nachrichten" in front of the three final Games in Wiesbaden, Germany, against Stuttgart and Kiel grieved noted: In the case of a descent in the third League "would be Palikuca, the basement, the team and parts of the Supervisory Board in the past – the whole 'Club', as you knew him, too."