SV Wehen: The Season Begins

Greetings from a hot and sunny Toronto and welcome back to my SV Wehen story. This report will be a little briefer than normal but the next one will be back to the usual «match highlights’ style.

The season kicked off in July with two games and by the time we had reached the end of August eight had been played altogether including a German Cup tie. Our opening two games were absolutely abysmal and  my 4-2-3-1 formation that looked so promising in pre-season was torn apart by the opposition.

The first match against Sandhausen we were lucky to escape with a draw but the following game versus Unterhaching we were ripped to shreds and rarely got in the opponents half. Here are the scores…

I wasn’t happy at all and after careful consideration changed the tactic back to a 4-4-2 for the cup tie against second division Duisburg. It was a much better performance and we won by a single goal from forward Damjanovic.

That victory seemed to spark a fire under the players and we went on to score eleven goals in the next three games with Marcel Ziemer set as a ‘poacher» finding himself on the scoresheet each time. We ended the month with two comfortable 1-0 victories which now propels us into second place behind  Sandhausen.

Results:

Third Division Table

The top two teams get automatically promoted and the third place team goes into a promotion play off against the 16th place team from the second division. There are only 18 teams in Division Two.

As mentioned previously Marcel Zeimer featured strongly this month so here’s his profile for your review and feedback.

On the scouting side of things (remember my rules in the first post) I now have a full complement of staff as allowed by the Board and so as well as Germany  all the «border» countries are covered as well.

Here’s next month fixtures which includes a home cup tie against First Division Hertha BSC

Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoy The World Cup Final!