“The team is very keen to win again”

I don’t think either team has a confidence problem. Both teams have a dominant and playful approach. So I don’t think it will be a fighting game. Both teams want to play forward in every situation, but that hasn’t always worked for both of them in the last few weeks. Elversberg is one of the teams that perhaps plays the gaps most consistently and wants to play from the back to the front most consistently. The SVE is a team that wants to get the ball back quickly. I therefore expect an open game. As a fan, I would have high hopes of seeing an attractive game on Saturday.

We are not happy with the last three weeks. The results just weren’t what we wanted to achieve. We also didn’t create the number of chances we expected from ourselves. Nevertheless, we have a good team structure and a very good basis as a team. It’s now about getting that last flow again. This means not thinking when making the final decision, but simply doing it. We are working on that. On the other hand, the basic structure with the ball and the work against the ball are also positive things from the last few weeks. I see a lot of factors that give us a high probability of being successful again at the weekend and in the next few weeks. The team is very keen to win again.

I see the expectations of Isac more as praise. He was out for eight to nine weeks. Accordingly, we must be patient. After all, we want to have something from him by the end of the season. In the last few weeks we haven’t created the number of chances we’re used to. I still have great confidence in all the players in our squad. Oscar Vilhelmsson, for example, coped physically well with the game in Nuremberg. The probability that he will start again is very high. I don’t want to put the pressure just on Isac. He is certainly an important piece of the puzzle for us. But our problem at the moment in creating scoring chances lies more in the determination from the spaces in between – initiating situations ourselves from these spaces. Of course, Isac helps because he binds opponents up front. But to blame everything solely on him and his absence in the last few weeks would be too much.

It’s not an attitude issue. Sometimes we want to make it too perfect. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what it looks like, both offensively and defensively. Kaiserslautern was our last outstanding game. There, for example, we had twelve to 15 great chances. But the team has to learn that it won’t be like this every time. We just have to take the simple thing – no matter how the ball goes in. In the last few weeks we have also received far too few standards, even though they are always dangerous. We had a corner against Nürnberg, but that’s not enough.

The transfer speaks for our scouting. Meldin Dreskovic is a classic scouting transfer in a positive sense. We have created a clear profile of what we want. The data and the personal development level were right. And we trust him to be able to play in the 2nd Bundesliga. We see great potential for development – especially in playing with the ball. He is a very athletic guy who is very aggressive in duels. He is healthy, fully fit and had very good performance tests. He will be in the squad on Saturday.