2nd Bundesliga: Magdeburg’s weak spot at residence continues: 0-0 towards Ulm | EUROtoday

The 1. FC Magdeburg additionally missed its first residence win since February towards SSV Ulm. Despite clear area superiority and a big improve in probabilities, the FCM could not get previous a 0-0 draw on the twelfth matchday of the 2nd soccer league in entrance of 21,993 spectators. Magdeburg is in seventh place within the desk with 18 factors.

“When we are so superior, it is annoying not to score a goal. “It’s positive that we didn’t concede a goal,” stated defender Jean Hugonet after the sixth draw this season.

Forced to make adjustments

Magdeburg’s coach Christian Titz was compelled to make adjustments as a result of suspensions and introduced on Mohammed El Hankouri and Abu Bekir El-Zein from the beginning. In the primary aggressive sport between the 2 groups towards one another, the FCM tried to take management from the beginning, however needed to discover its method ahead within the sport, particularly for the reason that attacking line was consistently castled.

Promising assaults arose many times within the early levels, particularly through Samuel Loric on the left, however most of them ended behind the objective line or had been blocked for a nook. The company had one of the best probability, however Maurice Krattenmacher missed (seventh).

Lots of corners, little hazard of scoring

Magdeburg remained superior on the sphere, however solely hardly ever managed to generate objectives. The lack of an actual goal participant was clearly noticeable. “The last pass was missing, the presence in the box. We have to do better,” stated Hugonet. A shot by El Hankouri from distance (nineteenth) was essentially the most promising factor.

After the break, there have been increasingly more conditions at FCM through which the teamwork in assault did not work and truly good assaults got here to nothing. The company had been fortunate that captain Strompf solely noticed a yellow card after a handball (59th) as a substitute of a doable pink – Alexander Nollenberger would have been free in entrance of the Ulm objective.

Magdeburg turned more and more erratic in protection, now allowed considerably extra and generally missed its personal counterattacks miserably. Niclas Thiede parried one of many few FCM photographs within the visitor objective towards Nollenberger (69th). Magdeburg pressed within the closing minutes, however even with the bulk after the yellow-red card towards Strompf (87th), they had been unable to attain.

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