Curiosity in amateur football: In Düsseldorf’s Kreisliga C, a team has probably managed the comeback of the year.

Kreisliga football has plenty of curiosity to offer, that’s not news. Nevertheless, there are always events that amaze. The third team of VfL Benrath recently provided such an event. In Düsseldorf’s Kreisliga C, the team celebrated an 8:6 victory at MSV Düsseldorf III last weekend, which would hardly have been worth mentioning had the Benrath team not been trailing 0:6 at half-time. The VfL thus provided material for the comeback of the year.

Screenshots of the match quickly spread around the net. The Benrath team itself wrote on its Facebook page of “absolute madness” and a game for the history books. “At the break, the boys of our third team were seemingly hopelessly behind and already had to fear being shot down by double digits,” they recapitulated. “But then the level of difficulty was apparently changed from ‘world class’ to ‘amateur’ and the 0:6 score was turned into an 8:6 score. “

The Benrath side didn’t even need the whole second half to turn the game on its head. In the first quarter of an hour after the break they worked their way up to 5:6 (47th, 50th, 52nd, 55th, 60th). After 67 minutes, Kevin Honnef equalised. And shortly afterwards Felix Lotze actually put the guests in the lead (71.). Lotze also provided the final score (80th), the other goals were scored by equaliser Honnef (2) and Soufian El Bachiri (3).

On social media, the catch-up drew incredulous reaction. “Was this played out on the X-Box?” asked one user under the Benrath post. Or: “That must have been the half-time speech of the century.”

It was not the first time this season that the team provided a spectacle. After nine games, the sixth-placed team in Quali Group 5 has a wild goal difference of 33:55.