With all joy: Schalke fights against weak points

Of course, the victory against the 1st FC Heidenheim is about all, especially the pleasure that the FC Schalke is not only on a rise place for the first time this season after the 29th matchday, but also greeted directly from the top. Anyone who has experienced how fans and team after the 3-0 against Heidenheim together the final whistle in the parallel top game between St. Pauli and Werder Bremen was a taste of what's going on on Schalke when the club is actually the immediate return to the Bundesliga should create.

If the team in the remaining five games as in the second half against Heidenheim, the chances are very good that the royal blue can no longer be displaced from the first two table sites. It becomes tight, however, if the Schalke does not build on it, but to the performance of the first half.

Büskens' Embassy in the half-time break

Positive expressed: The Schalke played very patiently in the first 45 minutes. But it can also be found critically that they were frightening little. There were far too little play stations, barely ideas, the dominance of the royal blue in terms of ball possession was mainly on ball slide. The leadership by Dominick Drexler resulted from a standard situation - it was the only scorchance of the hosts before the break.

In the cabin, coach Mike Büskens the team showed, "what we need to do better," Rodrigo Zalazar revealed a Heidenheimmand. It was about the pressing behavior, but also about it, "how we have to move in possession of possession to create rooms," explained the offensive player, who even proudly rose noticeably after him. The rather mow team appearance before the change of pages spurs the royal blue to fight against other weak points in their game to further increase the promotion opportunities.

Warum in the rise battle now never speaks for Schalke 04, read in the Monday edition of the Heidenheim (from Sunday evening also in the emagazine).