The days of brash sayings and showing off are over.

Now it has to be delivered, because two winners, as the coaches Dirk Schuster and Guerino Capretti suggested on Friday evening, there will be no decision in Dresden this Tuesday evening (8.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the 2nd Bundesliga and on Sat.1). .

Since the uneventful relegation first leg between 1. FC Kaiserslautern, third in the third division, and Dynamo Dresden, third in the second division, ended 0-0 in the Fritz Walter Stadium and seemed like a lukewarm warm-up round, the better strategy of the coaches and that in the respective collective deeper-rooted self-confidence of the players decide about weal and woe in this duel of the class warriors, which is suitable for a football drama.

Capretti still without a win

Capretti from southern Italy, who grew up in East Westphalia and was socialized in sports, must finally find the way to his goal in order to be successful in the end.

Because the 40-year-old football teacher with dynamo, who was promoted to the third division with the East Westphalian club SC Verl in 2020 and immediately arrived in seventh place in the first season, has not won any of his eleven competitive games.

Seven draws and four defeats were not enough to escape the table mess.

Looking at his team's results, Capretti in Dresden continued his recent failures in Verl.

There he had to go in February after five games without a sense of achievement because his team occupied a relegation zone.

"He made us really hot"

So has the coach gone from bad to worse?

Not necessarily, since Capretti, whose contract runs until 2023 should only apply to the second Bundesliga, can still be pretty sure of the trust in the club and his team.

"He got us really hot," said captain Tim Knipping after the first leg about the eloquent and pleasantly self-confident football coach, who thinks, talks and acts offensively.

The 40-year-old, who completed a pedagogical degree parallel to his passion for football and taught sports, mathematics and the Catholic religion at a secondary school in Gütersloh, is considered to be communicative and, if successful, inspiring.

"We play bold football"

But since words can't replace action in football, it's high time that Dynamo won.

Capretti once described his idea of ​​successful and respectable football as follows: “We play courageous football and always want to win the ball back as quickly as possible.

In pressure situations we look for playful solutions.

We want to score our goals with an organized structure and with clean transitions.”

A single one could be enough on this Tuesday evening in front of 30,000 spectators in the sold-out Rudolf Harbig Stadium.

But be careful: On the other hand, Dirk Schuster, who was only committed once for the relegation, has recently been in charge of the actions of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, which seemed rather disorderly in the 0-0 in the first leg, but this time perhaps already concerted.

Schuster once coach of the year

The 54-year-old Saxon is considered a warhorse who celebrated great successes at his most successful station at SV Darmstadt 98 with his ideas of straightforward, goal-oriented, simple football.

Promotion to the second Bundesliga via relegation via Arminia Bielefeld in 2014, promotion to the Bundesliga in 2015, remaining in the league the following season – these milestones made him Football Coach of the Year 2016.

However, his second first division stint as a coach at FC Augsburg in 2016 turned into an episode that lasted just over five months for the four-time GDR player and three-time national player in reunified Germany.

Since then, after an unspectacular comeback in Darmstadt and two seasons in Aue, the former professional soccer player with Karlsruher SC and 1. FC Köln was no longer in demand on the big Bundesliga stage.

"The game is decided in the head"

Kaiserslautern could become a stepping stone back into the limelight for the Saxon if the man with the old-school appearance were to take the hurdle at Dresden.

Schuster didn't let himself be looked at during the countdown before the groundbreaking duel.

He only predicted this much: "The game will be decided in the mind." Who will have been the better motivator in the end, Capretti or Schuster, is a question of decisive importance for weal or woe at Dynamo Dresden and 1. FC Kaiserslautern .