Dinosaurs had a unique team status that never left the Bundesliga 1. For a second, even Bavaria could not boast of such a thing! But, nevertheless, having taken off, Redtrousers could not even get the right to participate in the play-offs twice in a row. Even with different coaches, the scenario was the same: leadership in the 1st round and failure after holidays. The popular team has now been entrusted to Daniel Thune, a 46-year-old professional who has made a name for himself in Osnabr?ck. So far, it turns out to give out one hundred percent statistics: 5 wins in 5 starting rounds. And Simon Therodde, who returned from Cologne to the familiar atmosphere of the 2nd division, churns out goals again. The 32-year-old striker already has 6 of them.
Standard won in qualifying to get into the group stage of the Europa League. Alas, in the main round of the tournament, the Belgians started with a defeat. At home, they were weaker than the Rangers (0:2). As a result, a series of 6 consecutive matches without defeat in the LE came to an end: the result is 3 wins and 3 losses. Away, within the LE, the results of the Standard leave much to be desired. In the last 7 games the team has drawn draws with rivals 3 times, with 4 losses. Interestingly, the extreme departure for the red-white ended in a draw with a score of 1:1 against another representative of Primeira – Vitoria Guimaraes. It is unlikely that Montagnier’s squad is in a good mood for the match against Benfica. The thing is that in the final round of the Belgian championship, the team was defeated by an outsider Saint-Truiden with a score of 2:0. Several players from the first squad will not appear on the field for the team in the upcoming mid-weekend: Eden Shamir, Michel Ange Balikwisha, Nicholas Ruskin and Maxime Lestienne.
