How do you explain week after week that a clearly better team can no longer win games? This question has been on the minds of Dynamo Dresden's managers and players ever since the 1:1 draw at SC Freiburg II on Sunday evening. No one can give an answer.
"It's been a recurring theme throughout the season. We make it 1-0 and don't add the second goal. What can I blame the boys for? Scoring goals. But that's what they want. You can't actually end this game in a draw," said a perplexed Dynamo coach Markus Anfang on "MagentaSport".
After Tom Zimmerschied had given them the lead, Jan Sturm equalized shortly before the break. "I have the feeling that if we let in a shot on goal, it's in. But what are you going to do? The opponent will also shoot at our goal from time to time," said Anfang.
The coach doesn't want to blame anyone. "The boys are doing their job, fighting. The atmosphere in the team is intact, they want to win and are doing everything they can to do so. But we don't manage to win a game just like that," said Anfang.
Luca Herrmann, like his team-mates, is also looking for explanations without really finding them. "Maybe it's also a tick of inability. That's been the case throughout the second half of the season, but it was also the case to some extent in the first half. We didn't make the most of our chances," said the midfielder.
The fact that they have only won one of their last eight games is also down to individuality. "These aren't issues where you say you have to change the training, change the statics, change the system of play. These are issues where the final concentration, the final self-confidence, the final conviction is missing. Luck is not on our side and we have to work on that again. We need to regain the feeling that we are successful through good soccer. That's what we're missing right now," said Herrmann, who was born in Freiburg.
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