Regensburg (dpa/lby) – SSV Jahn Regensburg is still relying on its young keeper Jonas Urbig in the fight to stay up in the league. “We decided in favor of him and then you have to stand behind him. That’s also a matter of trust,” said coach Mersad Selimbegovic before the home game against relegation rival Arminia Bielefeld on Saturday (1 p.m.). “If he stays stable, keeps training like this, then he’ll stay in goal,” said the coach of the second division soccer team, looking ahead to the rest of the season.
The only 19-year-old Urbig celebrated his professional debut in the defeat in Darmstadt and acted unluckily in several situations. “This is a young goalkeeper who did a good job in the first game,” said Selimbegovic, defending the new signing. The teenager had only been signed in early January and had supplanted Dejan Stojanovic as number 1.
Regensburg’s lead over bottom-placed Magdeburg is just two points before the 19th matchday. Against Bielefeld, the Oberpfalzer, who are threatened with relegation, want to win their first win since October. “It’s a squad that’s really good and that belongs somewhere else,” said Selimbegovic about the penultimate team in the 2nd division.