On matchday 16 of the Oberliga Niederrhein, 1. FC Kleve won 3-2 at KFC Uerdingen, with head coach Umut Akpinar making the decisive substitution in Mike Terfloth.
On matchday 16 of the Oberliga Niederrhein, 1. FC Kleve celebrated their second win in a row and climbed to eleventh place in the table with a 3-2 victory over KFC Uerdingen.
More information on the match and the comments of both coaches can be found here. Substitute Mike Terfloth was the match-winner with the winning goal in the second minute of injury time.
Terfloth has been playing for 1. FC Kleve since the 2014/2015 season and scored his third goal of the season during the match against KFC. After the match, the midfielder was happy about the success against Uerdingen and another three points on his team’s account.
“It was extremely important for us to score again. We still have many extremely difficult games ahead of us and it was clear to all of us that we now have to win against one of the top teams. Otherwise, we could have slid down the table very quickly,” said the winning goal scorer after the game and commented on his goal: “The atmosphere was outstanding. I had to warm up for 75 minutes and when you step onto the field in the Grotenburg, you get goose bumps as a first division player. So it was even more exciting that the ball went in in injury time. “
I had to warm up for 75 minutes and when you step onto the pitch in the Grotenburg, you get goosebumps as a first division player.
Mike Terfloth
Also looking ahead to the coming weeks, Terfloth said the team wanted to build on their recent successes. “The win was hugely important. We needed that and it’s also extremely good for confidence. We got our points mostly against teams from the bottom and sometimes weakened against other opponents. That’s why it’s important that we showed that we can also win against the bigger teams in the league,” said the match-winner.
Umut Akpinar on Terfloth: “Did a good job at this stage”.
Of course, Kleve’s head coach Umut Akpinar is also largely responsible for FCK’s success. He showed a golden touch by substituting Terfloth for Dano Evrard and turning the Grotenburg upside down in the last minute. After the game, the coach praised his winning goalscorer for the way he played.
“We switched positions one on one and I told him to get out of his position. When we had possession, we wanted to get deep into the opponent’s half quickly. In the game against KFC, the spaces were there and Mike did that well in that phase,” Akpinar explained, referring to the goalscorer.
On the upcoming matchday 17, 1. FC Kleve will then face the new league leader, as SSVg Velbert ousted KFC Uerdingen from the top of the league last matchday.
