VfL Bochum won the DFB Cup match at BFC Dynamo 3-1, but failed to gain the momentum they had hoped for. Coach Dieter Hecking is dissatisfied.

VfL Bochum scraped through to the second round of the DFB Cup at BFC Dynamo. For a long time, it even looked as if the regional league team would knock Bochum out.

Jan Shcherbakovski had put Berlin ahead in the 46th minute with a long-range shot from 25 meters. The fact that the game ultimately swung in favor of the favorites did not prevent coach Dieter Hecking from offering a critical analysis at the post-match press conference.

“Compliments to BFC. They played a good game. As for us, I’m a little irritated by our performance. If you think you can win against a fourth-division team with 80 percent effort, it’s going to be difficult,” said Hecking.

His team didn’t play with enough pace and didn’t put enough effort into the tackles. “Of course, you could say that we should have had a penalty in the fourth minute, that Ibrahima Sissoko got injured early on and that we had two or three big chances,” he continued.

Instead, with the score at 0-1, “it turned out the way it had to in a game like this. After that, we had a chance, but BFC could have made it 2-0.” Instead, Larry Oellers was sent off with a red card after 80 minutes. Referee Felix Wagner charged him with a professional foul against Samuel Bamba.

“For me, the red card was too harsh. Samuel was still very far away from the goal,” said Hecking. VfL then equalized through Noah Loosli (86th minute) and should have been awarded a penalty in the 71st minute for a foul on Koji Miyoshi, as Hecking pointed out.

“Overall, there were a lot of things that you don’t need in a first-round game. But first and foremost, it’s about our performance. And that wasn’t good.” Even the goals from Samuel Bamba (107th minute) and Matus Bero (120+1) in extra time couldn’t hide that. The BFC were down to nine men after Rufat Dadashov was sent off in the 103rd minute. “It certainly wasn’t a glorious victory. Many of my colleagues said beforehand: ‘In the first round, the only thing that counts is advancing.’ I would like to add that we clearly need to improve if we want to make a claim,” Hecking concluded in his match analysis. with gp