Concordia Wiemelhausen, as a newly promoted team in the Oberliga Westfalen, continues to have major problems. Coach Carsten Droll provides reasons and sees an ongoing development.

As a newly promoted team, Concordia Wiemelhausen has had a mixed season in the Oberliga Westfalen so far. Coach Carsten Droll’s team was already considered to be relegated by many before the season.

But the Bochum team is putting up a fight and is only one point behind a non-relegation spot. However, they have no reason to be satisfied with their start. The team has only won two of ten games, losing the rest.

Droll sees several reasons for the bumpy start: “The reasons for our sporting failure are complex. On the one hand, we have had to deal with a lot of absences and injuries. In the league, mistakes are mercilessly punished. Unfortunately, we still make these mistakes too often and therefore regularly learn the hard way. Playing week after week without self-confidence naturally becomes more and more difficult.”

The 51-year-old is busy analyzing and addressing his team’s mistakes week after week. The result: “We have to be more compact as a team and offer our opponents fewer spaces. We also have to position ourselves better and change our behavior after losing the ball. But we’re developing, and we’re learning with every game.”

Another reason that is hindering this development and causing Droll problems is the injury misery. Many key players and players who are important for the development of the team will be out at least until December.

The injury to Wiemelhausen’s top scorer Patrick Sacher is particularly bitter. The 27-year-old has already scored six times this season. But now he will be missing from the team for the time being and will probably not be able to help them for the rest of the season. The diagnosis after an injury-related substitution against Wattenscheid: cruciate ligament rupture.

Wiemelhausen doesn’t have much time to create alternatives. The team will be in action again on Sunday, October 20, when Eintracht Rheine will be the guests at 3 p.m.

The 51-year-old: “Rheine is a technically good team that has had a good season so far. They are very flexible and can play with both possession and long balls.”