Nuremberg (dpa / lby) – After a disappointing first phase of the season, 1. FC Nuremberg wants to start a catch-up race in the 2nd Bundesliga after the international matches. This should start on Sunday (1.30 p.m.) in the away game at Karlsruher SC. “It’s about scoring points,” said coach Robert Klauß on Friday after just ten points and 13th place in the table after the first nine games of the season.
However, the 37-year-old once again campaigned for freeing himself from the idea of ”evaluating games only by the result” when evaluating performance. For him as a coach, it was more about “with what attitude and how we play football”.
In Karlsruhe, the “club” could have a formation problem in the center of defence. Florian Hübner is definitely out with back problems, as Klauss announced. It is uncertain whether James Lawrence will be able to defend alongside captain Christopher Schindler after an infection that slowed him down for a long time. Taylan Duman is back in team training after an injury. A deployment of the midfielder against Karlsruher SC would come too soon, as Klauss said: “It doesn’t make sense.”
A training focus after the recent 0:2 in Darmstadt was on the offensive. “We don’t have enough final situations,” Klauß said, describing a major deficiency.