It wasn’t until the beginning of October that Markus Beginn took over the reins from Daniel Thioune at Fortuna Düsseldorf. However, the former Werder Bremen trainer was unable to turn the tide on the Rhine. After the bitter 0-1 defeat at Holstein Kiel, doubts are growing about the 51-year-old, who may face a final after the international break.
At least that’s what “Bild” is speculating about. According to the tabloid, there is currently “nothing to suggest” that the second division team will pull the emergency brake after just four weeks and throw out the beginning. Nevertheless, the home game against 1. FC Magdeburg, which is also deep in crisis (November 22nd, 1 p.m.) could be the “final” for the Cologne native, it is said.
Beginning only got a measly point from his first five games as Fortuna coach. The sixth-place team from the previous season is in a disappointing 15th place after twelve match days with just eleven points. The traditional club’s crisis worsened on Sunday with a 0-1 defeat at relegated Kiel.
Fortuna Düsseldorf “just can’t manage it”
“We have to put the strikers in more situations in which they can score goals, then we will be rewarded,” said Beginning at the press conference, but admitted: “It’s difficult because you think it’s not true, that you’ll go home as the better team with zero points and lose again by one goal difference.”
Captain Florian Kastemeier also raised the alarm after the bankruptcy in Schleswig-Holstein. “We have huge demands before the season, we get top transfers and have scored some of the fewest goals,” the annoyed keeper rumbled on “Sky”: “In this second league you have to work for everything, you have to work for the goals, and we can’t do that.”
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“Many people haven’t yet understood how dangerous the situation is,” he warns: “We’re now on the 12th matchday and we just can’t manage it. Everyone now has to question themselves whether they’re giving everything for it.”
