KFC Uerdingen misses out on a perfect English week against SV Sonsbeck. Coach Marcus John is annoyed about not meeting the targets.
A 6-0 win against Union Nettetal in the Oberliga Niederrhein, then the cup coup against MSV Duisburg – KFC Uerdingen seemed to have finally arrived in the season.
At the end of the English week, however, the Krefeld team suffered a bitter setback. With 0:1 they lost on Sunday at Kellerkind SV Sonsbeck.
“We didn’t play a good game,” coach Marcus John complained the morning after. His criticism: “We didn’t adapt to the pitch conditions there. The opponent has shown us with many long balls. We, on the other hand, got bogged down in dribbles and combinations, even though I had specified otherwise. “
His team was too passive, John continued. “We had too few scoring chances.” And that was against a team that had previously been deep in crisis. Sonsbeck went into the game with five defeats in a row, had not scored a goal for over 500 minutes before the winning goal by Klaus Keisers (53rd).
In contrast, KFC had bowled third division side MSV Duisburg out of the Niederrheinpokal with a strong performance during the week (1-0 after extra time). John had warned afterwards still before the contrast program against Sonsbeck – in vain.
The cause research for the defeat is to be intensified starting from Monday afternoon. Aftereffects of the cup fight did not want to let pass the 49-Jährige as reason. He had changed his starting eleven on several positions, besides four days as regeneration time would have to be sufficient.
In any case, the coach and sports director in personal union was annoyed about a missed opportunity: “We could have had a perfect week, that would have been very important for the feeling in and around the club.” It was “hard to accept that two such strong performances are followed by another game like that.”
Because instead of keeping up with the top flight, KFC remains in eighth place. There is a five-point gap between the Uerdingen team and seventh-placed TVD Velbert. And there are eleven points between them and the leaders, Sportfreunde Baumberg. Early on in the season, the traditional club lost sight of its goal of promotion.
The away record in particular reads devastating: just two points from five games. “That’s far too few. We urgently need to work on that,” John frets.
After all, there is a home game coming up first, with relegation-threatened TSV Meerbusch coming to the Grotenburg (Saturday, 6 p.m.), before the Uerdinger want to polish up their record away at promoted Adler Union Frintrop (October 29). “We must not underestimate the opponents in any case. But if we want to attack again, these are mandatory tasks for us,” emphasizes John.