Luka Krajnc can start knocking on Matjaz Keke’s door again: during the winter preparations, he opened the door to the Impact XI again
9 October 2022 was a date that had a major impact on the Slovenian’s season with the
Hannover
. It was the last time Luka Krajnc was part of the German second division side’ s starting eleven last year. He played 78. In the next round, he was shown a yellow card, which prevented him from helping his teammates in the next round.
Then the reserve bench became his harsh reality. Luka Kranjc was not even in Hannover’s squad for the next two games, he was on the reserve bench twice later, and the game against Fortuna Düsseldorf (8 November 2022) was the only one in which he got a chance after the aforementioned clash with Heidenheim. And he only spent 11 minutes on the pitch.
Excellent work during winter preparations
Due to his less than rosy status, there were rumours in the winter that 28-year-old Luka Krajnc, who arrived in Hannover in August 2021 from Frosinone, would change employers in the winter transfer window, but the Slovenian was thinking more about doing a good job during his preparations than about that. He came to the latter with great motivation and actually made the most of them.
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“Luka did really well, he actually went one step further. It has much more confidence in what we want to play. He is more aggressive, more enthusiastic and communicates better with his teammates. Krajnc is making excellent preparations,” was the satisfaction of coach Stefan Leitl, while sport director Marcus Mann added: “He did really well in all the games, he was the most solid of all the defenders. He was really very good during the preparation.”
For the first time since 9. October last year
Words became flesh in the first official match in 2023. Hannover played Kaiserslautern at home, Luka Krajnc started from the first minute and took his place on the left side of the defence in a 3-5-2 formation. It’s true that Hannover lost 1:3, but Luka Krajnc scored – for the first time after 9. Last October, he was back playing from the first minute onwards.
How it will work in the future remains to be seen, of course. But if he plays regularly… Who knows, maybe one day he will manage to knock on Matjaz Keke’s door again and earn himself a call-up for the first time since 2020.
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