🔥 Big talk, backed up! DFB-Pokal boast ages better than Loddar | OneFootball

What do you do as the sporting director of a Regionalliga club when you draw a recently relegated Bundesliga team in the DFB Cup? Exactly, you first give them a bold warning.

"We already know Heidenheim, after all. So we're prepared and we'll win the game easily. Then we'll be through to the next round, and then we'll be back here again," Jeddeloh sporting director Olaf Blancke stressed in the 'ARD' studio in June, earning plenty of laughs from the studio guests.

What hardly anyone could have guessed at the time: Blancke would end up being 100 percent right with his probably not entirely serious statement.

As if it were the most normal thing in the world, SSV Jeddeloh knocked the relegated Bundesliga side out of the cup 5-2 yesterday afternoon. At one point, the fourth-division team was even leading 5-1.

"This is just hugely embarrassing. And in a way a turning point, because after a cup match against a Regionalliga side, you really have to say that the defeat was absolutely deserved," fumed Heidenheim captain Patrick Mainka after the 2-5 loss in front of the 'Sky' microphones.

Meanwhile, Blancke can already prepare for his next cup prediction at the draw on September 5 (from 5:45 p.m. on ARD). Hopefully that one ages even better than football expert Lothar Matthäus, who still looks damn fresh at 65. 

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