1. FC Köln II celebrated its first win of the season in the Regionalliga West. Against Rot Weiss Ahlen, the Cologne team celebrated a 5:0 victory and proved to be ice-cold in their finishing.

After the crushing 1:5 opening defeat against city rivals Fortuna Köln, 1. FC Köln II was able to record its first win of the season against Rot Weiss Ahlen on the second matchday of the Regionalliga West. The FC won 5-0 (2-0) at the Wersestadion in Ahlen.

Coach Evangelos Sbonias’ team put in a strong performance over long stretches, with young star Justin Diehl in particular causing RWA great difficulties. The 18-year-old crowned his performance with a brace (15th, 89th). Joker Joao Pinto also scored twice, scoring within five minutes of his substitution (62nd, 65th). In addition, the Cologne team took advantage of the individual mistakes made by the Ahlen team.

Coach Sbonias was correspondingly positive in his assessment: “After the bitter start against Fortuna Cologne, we wanted to start the game well and correct a few things. My team did that very well from the first minute. We had many scoring chances, switching moments and were also good in pressing and counter-pressing.”

The U21s of 1. FC Köln went into the break with a 2-0 lead, which could well have been higher due to two aluminum goals. Sbonias continued: “We knew that after the break there would be a period of pressure from Ahlen, which we overcame. At the back, the goals came from counterattacks and pressing situations. We’re very happy that we deserved to win here and that we were able to correct the result from the first matchday to some extent. “

Berlinski complains about individual mistakes and misses the “missing bit of luck”

RWA coach Daniel Berlinski showed his disappointment at the high defeat: “We had a lot planned and wanted to build on the good approaches that we showed in the opener in Rödinghausen. We managed that very well in phases in the first half and should have taken the lead in the ninth minute through Yasin Altun, then the game might go differently.”

In addition, the Red-Whites made three hair-raising individual mistakes, all of which led to goals against. In addition, the Wersestädter acted lucklessly in attack, as Berlinski also emphasized: “We are lacking that little bit of luck right now, we have to work for it. We could have played for another two hours today and not scored a goal.”

Thus, RWA is after two league games on the last place in the table with zero points and 0:7 goals. On the next matchday, Ahlen travel to FC Wegberg-Beeck, while FC Köln’s U21s have a home game against 1. FC Bocholt coming up.