SpVg Schonnebeck experienced a bitter disappointment on the sixth match day. The Swallows lost 0-2 to SC St. Tönis on Friday evening.

At the start of the sixth match day in the Oberliga Niederrhein, SpVg Schonnebeck lost 0-2 (0-0) at home to SC St. Tönis.

The Schwalben got off to a good start and almost got off to a perfect start. Tim Schrick, SC St. Tönis’ goalkeeper, came under pressure in the 3rd minute and played the ball into the feet of Schonnebeck’s Philipp Schmidt, who dribbled and lost the ball.

The visitors then got better and better and took control of the game. However, Schonnebeck had the best chance of the first half: after a mistake by former second division professional Jannis Nikolaou, who slipped away, Moritz Isensee grabbed the ball and shot. But Nikolaou got back into the tackle in time, so that the Essen striker could only finish under pressure. Schrick saved the shot (31st minute).

Nevertheless, St. Tönis remained the better team and had a good chance shortly before the half-time whistle in the form of Morten Heffungs. The striker left two opponents behind after a pass from Luca Esposito, but his shot went just wide of the left post (44′). The teams went into the break goalless.

The second half began competitively, with Schonnebeck repeatedly trying their luck with long balls. In the 55th minute, the Schwalben were awarded a free kick from a promising position. Isensee tried his luck directly, but Schrick deflected the ball onto the crossbar in a desperate attempt to save.

Shortly afterwards, Schonnebeck goalkeeper Lukas Lingk was also called into action: the ball bounced around the six-yard box, then Kohei Nakano shot, but Lingk made a huge save to prevent Essen from falling behind (70′).

Four minutes later, however, he was powerless. Substitute Kris Pöstges left three opponents in his wake and passed the ball to Heffungs, who pushed it into the goal with the help of the inside post (74′).

Coach Dirk Tönnies’ team was unable to recover from this shock in the final stages. The team tried everything to force an equalizer, but they were far too harmless in attack. Instead, St. Tönis counterattacked and sealed the victory deep into stoppage time with a goal from Maximilian Pohlig (90+7).

Schonnebeck thus missed the chance to at least temporarily overtake league leaders Germania Ratingen. Instead, the Schwalben suffered their second defeat of the still young Oberliga season.