For all teams in the Oberliga Niederrhein, the season started again last weekend. Ratingen, on the other hand, was able to look at the results from the comfort of their sofas.
Ratingen’s “outsider role” in the fight for promotion
For all teams in the Oberliga Niederrhein, the season started again last weekend. Ratingen, on the other hand, was able to look at the results from the comfort of their sofas.
The Oberliga Niederrhein league season already started again last weekend. While Sportfreunde Baumberg slipped up, Ratingen 04/19 had a good laugh. The team in second place was able to follow the start of the second half of the season comfortably via the live ticker. 04/19 had a free weekend on match day 19.
Martin Hasenpflug’s team saw league leaders Baumberg lose 2-0 to bottom-of-the-league TSV Meerbusch. This was a great opportunity for the Ratingen club, who would like to see the light of the regional league.
This means that the Hasenpflug team is hot on the heels of the sports fans. With a game less and only three points behind, Ratingen is in a lurking position.
However, coach Hasenpflug doesn’t want to talk much about the mistake: “It was in the media that we would have been the big winners of the match day. We don’t have more points on the account now than before. We don’t want to look at the competition at all, but rather focus on our own homework.”
This is a club that has developed strongly in recent years and grown incredibly – as has the team itself.
Martin Hasenpflug on VfB 03 Hilden: “
He also emphasizes: ”We are the underdogs in the promotion battle. To take advantage of this, we must never lose our focus and certainly not be lulled into a false sense of security just because someone from above has made a mistake.”
04/19 wants to make an immediate statement against their first competitive opponent of the new year, VfB 03 Hilden. No easy task. Hilden, currently in fourth place with 30 points, can still hope to be promoted, and with good reason.
Hasenpflug is humble ahead of the chase: “I definitely see Hilden as the favorite in this game. It’s a club that has developed strongly and grown incredibly in recent years, and the same goes for the team itself. I also think that they have beaten us in the last four or five games. We are therefore approaching this task with humility.”
The Oberliga Niederrhein league season resumed last weekend. While Sportfreunde Baumberg slipped up, Ratingen 04/19 had a good laugh. The team in second place in the table was able to follow the start of the second half of the season comfortably via the RS live ticker. 04/19 had a free weekend on match day 19.
Martin Hasenpflug’s team saw league leaders Baumberg lose 2-0 to bottom-of-the-league TSV Meerbusch. This provided a great opportunity for the club from Ratingen, which is hoping to make it into the regional league, to catch the eye.
This means that the Hasenpflug team is hot on the heels of the sports fans. With one game less and only three points behind, Ratingen is in a lurking position.
However, coach Hasenpflug doesn’t want to talk much about the mistake: “It was in the media that we would have been the big winners of the match day. We don’t have more points on the account now than before. We don’t want to look at the competition at all, but rather focus on our own homework.”
This is a club that has developed strongly in recent years and grown incredibly – as has the team itself.
Martin Hasenpflug on VfB 03 Hilden: “
He also emphasizes: ”We are the underdogs in the promotion battle. In order to take advantage of this, we must never lose our focus and certainly not feel safe just because someone from above has made a mistake.”
04/19 wants to make an immediate statement against their first competitive opponent of the new year, VfB 03 Hilden. No easy task. Hilden, currently in fourth place with 30 points, can still hope to be promoted, and with good reason.
Hasenpflug is humble ahead of the chase: “I definitely see Hilden as the favorite in this game. It’s a club that has developed strongly in recent years and grown incredibly – and the same goes for the team itself. I also think that they have beaten us in the last four or five games. We are therefore approaching this task with humility.”