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The ball finally rolls in the second Bundesliga again. For Holstein Kiel and SV Sandhausen the season 2019/20 starts on Saturday afternoon. Both clubs meet for the opening match in the Holstein Stadium. With the storks there was again a big change. In addition, a new coach had to be committed after the departure of Tim Walter. The choice fell on Andre Schubert. Can the Kieler again and again provide surprises this season? Most experts do not trust the KSV this time in the promotion race, but expect a place in the upper midfield half.
The SV Sandhausen could save in the last season only by a strong final sprint before relegation. Also at the SVS there was a coming and going before the season. The club relies on coach Uwe Koschinat, who is celebrated in Hardtwald as a savior and has worked out within a very short time a lot of credit with fans and responsible people. The guests have to face each other in the opening game Kiel. Sandhausen, however, according to the odds accept the outsider role.
Kiel:
With Andre Schubert Holstein Kiel has the third coach in three years. Markus Anfang took the club to third place in the 2017/18 season and moved to Cologne. Tim Walter managed the sixth place with the storks in the preseason and then went to VfB Stuttgart. Andre Schubert had saved third division Eintracht Braunschweig from relegation in the last season. The new coach at Kiel will not rely so much on the usual offensive football. The Gladbach former coach demands defensive discipline and tactical flexibility instead. The club attaches importance to young players with a lot of potential. With an average of 23.7 years, the KSV has the youngest squad in the league. As in the preseason was also before this season again a change. Eleven new arrivals face 13 departures.
New players include Emmanuel Iyoha (Dusseldorf), Phil Neumann (Ingolstadt), Young Jae Seo (Duisburg), David Atanga (Salzburg) and Aleksandar Ignjovski (Magdeburg). The club left important players like David Kinsombi (HSV), Kenneth Kronholm (Chicago), Kingsley Schindler (1st FC Cologne), Masaya Okugawa (Salzburg) and Atakan Karazor (Stuttgart). The squad will be reinforced with two or three other players. In the preparation the storks completed six friendly matches: 7: 0 against Eckernförder SV, 9: 0 against Falkensee-Finkenkrug, 1: 1 against Odense, 0: 1 against Akhmat Grozny, 1: 1 against SV Mattersburg and 2: 3 against Sheffield Wednesday. Defender Jannik Dehm broke his tibia in the final friendly against Sheffield and will be out for the remainder of the year. The fans are euphoric in the new season and have set up a new record with 7,000 season tickets.
Sandhausen:
In the last season, the SV Sandhausen hovered for a long time in highest relegation danger. Only by a final spurt with 21 points from the last ten games Sandhausen made it to the saving shore. In the end, the SVS table was fifteenth, three points ahead of the first relegation rank. In October 2018, the club had installed with Uwe Koschinat a new coach as successor to Kenan Kocak. Kocak was dismissed after only five points from the first nine games of the season. It took a while before the new coach could celebrate his first successes. After the 24th match day, the club had been at the bottom of the league.
Now the Sandhäusener go with Koschinat in their eighth second league year. The coach was allowed to assemble the team for the first time according to his ideas as well as complete the preparation. At his side now acts the new sports director Mikayil Kabaca. Bitter were the departures of Andrew Wooten (Philadelphia) and Fabian Schleusener (1st FCN). The two strikers had scored 27 of the 45 goals in the preseason together. Goalkeeper Marcel Schuhen went to Darmstadt. In total, twelve players left the SVS.
In addition, there were ten new professionals. The squad has been reinforced with returnees Aziz Bouhaddouz (Al Batin), Ivan Paurevic (FK Ufa), Julius Biada (Kaiserslautern), Marlon Frey (PSV Eindhoven II) and Philip Türpitz (Magdeburg). In addition, the club could extend with captain Dennis Diekmeier. The new additions should provide for more flexibility in the offensive and a higher speed on the wings. But the goal is again: relegation!
Karl, Biada and Kister are missing due to injury at the start of the season. Just like Türpitz, who is to play an important role and almost completely failed the preparation. The Icelander Rurik Gislason moves from right-winger to the storm center. In preparation, the participant of the 2018 World Cup was able to attract attention with five goals in the new role.
Holstein Kiel vs Sandhausen head to head matches
27.04.19 2BUN Sandhausen Holstein Kiel 3 : 2
24.11.18 2BUN Holstein Kiel Sandhausen 2 : 1
17.12.17 2BUN Sandhausen Holstein Kiel 3 : 1
30.07.17 2BUN Holstein Kiel Sandhausen 2 : 2
10.04.10 3LIG Sandhausen Holstein Kiel 1 : 1