DFB Pokal, Round 2: FC Sankt Pauli – Hertha BSC 0-2

So What?

source: http://www.abendblatt.de

Ok this was tough from the beginning. Taking this game and moving on to the third round would bring fresh air to the swamp we’re in from the start of this season. . Of course someone aiming that high, against a team standing high in the Bundesliga ranks, could easily be characterized as super optimistic/delusional, considering the fact that Sankt Pauli hasn’t shown anything of worth from the beginning of the season. Hopes are hopes though and of course someone should  shut those nazi fuckers up, thinking they could come in Millerntor with an attitude (reports of Hertha nazi hools messing around with people at the station in Feldstraße). Bollocks.

DFB Pokal 2016-17 Rnd 2 draw: visitors from Berlin ^^

 

image source: Frankinho on Flickr

 

Having already put through the shitty Lübeck business and having already escaped the tricky first round which tends to be the modern curse of FCSP, the perspective through which we’re facing this season’s has changed. Fiasco avoided, winning the Pokal is not the primary target anyway ( 🙂 ), everything from now on is nice to have, so, more or less, it’s back to the enjoyment of football 🙂 From this point of view, the visit of Hertha BSC towards the end of October to Millerntor is considered a first class opportunity 😉

Matchday 31: FC Sankt Pauli – Hertha BSC 2-3…

No DOM joke this time…it’s not funny even to us anymore…

Having fun in Millerntor… (source: http://www.bz-berlin.de/)

What a waste…our criminally insane defensive behavior deprived us once more from the chance getting the invaluable, towards the race against relegation, points and securing the, supposed to already be secured, league… 2 goals in the closing 5 minutes and there goes another game, a game that we didn’t deserved actually something more than a draw out of it…Another bitter (even if it was considered more than possible before the match) loss, and here’s the 1000$ question: when you’re ahead at home, 5′ before full time and, in the end, you can’t even get a draw at of the game, in what exactly do you base your belief of staying alive except the incompetence of others?

Matchday 14: Hertha BSC – FC Sankt Pauli 1-0

Tough luck and a bitter (still 100% fair) defeat…

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We got REALLY close but we didn’t make it… FCSP stood its ground for 85 minutes against an “enraged” Hertha Berlin and came THIIIIIIIS CLOSE snatching the draw in the dying moments of the game… All these were done though against a far better team (at least as proven during the 2nd half) and the final result shouldn’t be considered an unlucky one… On the other hand, the overall team performance against an obviously superior opponent along with the impressive support from the more than 7000 FCSP fans leave, at the end, a sweet taste out of  a bitter defeat 🙂