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Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - After the game, the disappointment for both teams was huge.
Due to the 0-0 in the terrifyingly weak relegation duel, both FC Schalke 04 and FSV Mainz 05 missed the badly needed three-point points.
For the knocked-down Bundesliga bottom Schalke and his new coach Dimitrios Grammozis, the only second win of the season in the 24th game could have created something like a slight optimism.
For the Rheinhessen, however, it would have been a real liberation.
Mainz “only” jumped to relegation rank 16 at least until Sunday. “That is just not enough,” complained 05 midfielder Dominik Kohr and his coach Bo Svensson quarreled: “I'm angry because we deserved the win.”
But this point of view is one of those things.
In the duel between two teams that are hardly suitable for the Bundesliga, Mainz was a little more determined, especially in the second half.
Defender Stefan Bell formulated the problem: "We had 20 shots on goal, but only two of them were dangerous."
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Schalke, on the other hand, would have been happy if it had had the strength for 20 shots on goal.
The heavily weakened team tried hard in the first game under the fifth Schalke head coach this season.
What made me think about the inability to play, however, were the obvious fitness deficits of the former top club.
While Mainz at least tried everything again in the second half, the Royal Blues were completely knocked out.
"It was of course a very intense game," Grammozis replied diplomatically to the obvious question about the state of fitness, without having to criticize his predecessors immediately after his first game.
Between the lines, however, Suat Serdar hinted that there had obviously been deficits in training over the past few weeks.
"The coach will still work a lot with us so that we can look better in the last few minutes," said Serdar of Grammzosis, who had followed Christian Gross who was shot last Sunday.
"We can't do miracles in two days," said Grammozis himself. And because of the mistakes accumulated over the past two years under two sports directors and at least four coaches, the fourth Bundesliga descent should be quite certain in the summer.
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