Delbruecker SC surprisingly beat regional league team 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn 3:0 in the Westphalia Cup. Coach and ex-professional Detlev Dammeier classifies the success.

This is not the first time that Delbrücker SC has surprised in the Westphalia Cup this season. In the second round, Delbrück had already knocked a third league team out of the competition, SC Verl, with a final score of 3:1.

Now it was 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn, a regional league team, and again the result is surprisingly clear: 3:0. The goals all came in the second half (54th, 64th, 87th); Detlev Dammeier, ex-professional of Arminia Bielefeld and VfL Wolfsburg, has explanations for this:

“If you don’t know your opponents, you have to get to know them first. I have never seen Kaan-Marienborn play. Even towards the end of the first half, we got better,” explains the 53-year-old.

Of course, the mood in the team is good now. Nevertheless, Dammeier does not want to overestimate the cup success. He puts it into perspective: “Kaan-Marienborn may not have played with their top line-up. And then there’s the long journey. “

In the past, you pressed against a flat back four, but that has become more complicated because of the taller full-backs. That makes it more difficult for coaches, but also more interesting.

Detlev Dammeier

Dammeier’s professional past – in addition to 248 Bundesliga appearances, Dammeier also has 275 games in the 2nd Bundesliga to his name – helps him in principle and not only in such games. The most influential coach for him in his Bielefeld days was Uwe Rapolder, with whom he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2004. Nevertheless, you can’t simply adopt his ideas about football. Football has changed a lot in the last 15 or 20 years:

“Many teams play much more variably now, even in the lower leagues. In the past, you pressed against a flat four-man backline, but that has become more complicated because of the taller full-backs. That makes it more difficult for coaches, but also more interesting,” says Dammeier.

Next opponent in the Westfalenpokal is RSV Meinerzhagen

The next opponent in the quarter-finals of the Westphalia Cup (27.10) will be RSV Meinerzhagen, who also pulled off a surprise success, defeating regional league team SV Rödinghausen 2-1.

For Dammeier and his team, however, it is now a matter of “taking the euphoria from the cup into everyday life in the league”. As a promoted team, they are currently in 12th place in the Oberliga Westfalen, having recently lost three games in a row. On Sunday (2 October, 3 p.m.), they will travel to TSG Sprockhövel, who are currently bottom of the table.