UFC Pama won their home derby against SC Kittsee this year, 1:0, on what started as a sunny afternoon. Very quickly the sun slid behind the clouds as did SC Kittsee’s chances. The flat lighting was ideal for black and white photography so the opening set is in black and white this year.

SC Kittsee came out of the gate very flat. What was wrong with our game:

• timing: first game of the season, passes were not arriving where and when expected. Or the forwards did not arrive where the passes did. Take your pick.
• injuries: three of our best players were not available though this derby is the first game of the season.
• fitness: timing and injuries is forgivable. Unfortunately most of our squad were unable to keep up with UFC Pama throughout the game.

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Going into this game, SC Kittsee was in eleventh place in Liga Nord II, one point away from relegation. UFC Pama had 31 points, just four points off league lader Monchöf. Kittsee had the chance to pull themselves out of the basement and UFC Pama had the chance to make a run at the crown (which is, as I’ve covered in past seasons) is fool’s gold. With the crown comes promotion into Landesliga Burgenland where the small towns of Burgenland Liga Nord II don’t have much hope of winning and much longer travel to away games to far away destinations like Güssing (185km, over two hours drive) and Pinkafeld. The close games are all more than an hour’s drive away, instead of ten minutes down the road to Pama or Gattendorf.

Still UFC Pama was gunning for that third spot and didn’t want to lose a derby game, particularly to what had been a lackluster 2021-2022 Kittsee club.

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