On Saturday, the U19 Niederrheinliga saw a derby between Rot-Weiss Essen and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. The spectators didn’t see a winner.
The U19 Niederrheinliga teams of Rot-Weiss Essen and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen drew 0-0. RWE remains six points ahead of RWO in the table.
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen did not hide from the favored RWE. From the start, the team of the new head coach Rafael Garcia, who had only taken over from Daniel Balk on Friday, appeared brave and self-confident.
After seven minutes, the first RWO chance: Ozan Hot, the Oberhausen left-back, crossed sharply from the left into the opposing penalty area, Daniel Raul just missed with his head in the center.
Rot-Weiss Essen tried to take control of the game and also created chances for Jan Friessner (12′), Etienne-Noel Reck (15′) and Ahmed Etri (18′), but these were thwarted by the Oberhausen defense or goalkeeper Luis Plath.
The best chance of the first half belonged to the guests: Leon Koch, Essen’s goalkeeper, fouled an Oberhausen player in the penalty area and the referee awarded a penalty. Koch made up for his mistake and made a great save to parry Ozan Hot’s penalty (28′). The teams went in at half-time all square.
The first chance in the second half belonged to the guests. Hot (55th) curled a dangerous free-kick towards the Essen goal, but Koch was equal to it.
On the direct counterattack, Essen had their best chance. Yasin Pirnal played a soft pass into the top exactly into the foot of Milot Ademi. In the one-on-one, Ademi (58th) failed, however, in the rushing out RWO goalkeeper Plath.
The teams delivered an open exchange of blows without producing big chances. It remained at the zero number in the duel of the two Bundesliga U19 relegated.
The statistics for the game
Rot-Weiss Essen: Koch – Pirnal (79. Gawryluk), Bollenberg, Swajkowski, Youbi (68. Potnar) – Brune (74. Berzen), Gedikli, Ademi, Etri – Reck, Friessner (46. Elhankouri).
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen: Plath – Bayer (73. Seker), El Amrani, Jurisic, Z. Durmus (80. Aldemir) – Semiz (46. Terzi), Hadzibajramovic, Böhm, Hot – Mutlu (64. A. Durmus), Raul (64. Twumasi)
Referee: Marcel Benedix
Spectators: 185
Yellow cards: Koch, Ademi, Swajkowski, Potnar – Jurisic