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Matchday 18: FC Nürnberg vs FC Sankt Pauli 0-1

Starting on the right foot!

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Back from this biiig break and so many changes on the team…first game without Timo on the bench, with assistant coach Hürzeler taking over. Well…It didn’t go bad but still…we’re not convinced that this is the team to dominate the second round (on the contrary!!!). Nevertheless, a win is a win and this is not just a win. This is our first away win since February 26 2022 against Ingolstadt  so yeah…Bottoms up boys!!!

Friendly: FC Sankt Pauli vs FC Midtjylland 0-0

This one didn’t look good but don’t bother (yet)

Last test before returning to the league for the second (and most crucial) part and this one didn’t look as good as the previous one. There will be very few things to remember from today, however as most of us know and common sense commands, these matches are not a reliable measure of what’s eventually going to happen. Hopefully the ones who needed to extract some conclusions did so, now on to the real thing next weekend 🏴‍☠️

Friendly: Borussia Mönchengladbach vs FC Sankt Pauli 0-1

Looks good

Following previous week’s “test” (was never the tough encounter we expected, took these guys 25′ to recover from the pub decay of the previous night 😆), we had a more serious affair today at Borussia-Park vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (Bundesliga resumes next week). We won again, not in the spectacular manner we did last week but this time Scum says that we have more reasons to be happy 🏴‍☠️

Friendly: FC Lugano vs FC Sankt Pauli 2-7

Whatever ΙΙ

This is not exactly, what I was personally expecting to see here. Score can give you the impression that a brown white squad from another planet landed on Earth (Benidorm) and destroyed Lugano but truth is that our opponents (playing in the Swiss top tier and currently in Europa League position), regardless of what Hürzeler said (“very good opponent”), appeared much weaker than expected. No problem for the rest of us of course, two entertaining football hours and something to slowly start getting us in character in view of the 2nd round weekend “routine” 🏴‍☠️

Friendly: 1. FC Union Berlin vs FC Sankt Pauli 3-2

Whatever

Not really interested in “progress” (two weeks in Kollau under these circumstances can’t really do much, will wait the return from Benidorm), not even curious about the new trainer (who?), simply addicted to FCSP and, in this sense, just watching the squad playing whatever football they played (wasn’t bad actually) after 40 days or so was simply enough 🏴‍☠️

News: Schultz out, we are a joke…

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Annual corporate meeting of a Greek pharmaceutical (lots of years ago) and the big man starts his speech. “Alright people, this wasn’t the best of years, results are not what we expected. This is result of certain poor choices that I personally made but, since I can’t fire myself, I will fire some of you”.