VfB Frohnhausen wins the top match in the Lower Rhine District League 6 by a surprisingly clear margin. The feelings of both coaches after the final whistle were correspondingly different.
On the ninth match day of the Lower Rhine District League 6, Rot-Weiss Essen’s second team welcomed VfB Frohnhausen. It was the top match of the day. Both teams had 19 points, third against fourth. That was the situation before the game. But the final score and the course of the game were clear: Frohnhausen won 4-0, knocking RWE out of the top four. The Frohnhausen team put in a committed and largely dominant performance, extending their winning streak to six games. VfB coach Chamdin Said was understandably pleased after the final whistle: “The team’s performance was incredible. I still can’t believe it.“
But Said also knows that the final score was higher than the game warranted. Frohnhausen was lucky on several occasions at crucial moments in the game to avoid conceding a goal. ”We were also lucky once or twice when our goalkeeper made outstanding saves to keep the score at 1-0.”
The 37-year-old couldn’t stop raving about his team and continued: “I’m just proud of the team and how they’ve performed in recent weeks.”
The mood was very different for RWE II coach Stefan Lorenz. He was more than fed up after the game. After almost two years without a competitive defeat, this is now the second defeat in a row for the Red and Whites. But Lorenz doesn’t see everything as bad: “We played an outstanding first half, didn’t score any goals, and conceded 0-1 due to an individual error.”
Even though the final score was too high, RWE couldn’t come close to matching their first-half performance. The ball rarely reached the players in the front third. In the final stages of the game, when Essen had to open up at the back, Frohnhausen took advantage of the counterattacking opportunities. “The defeat hurts, we wanted to show a reaction after the last defeat, and that worked in terms of football. In terms of points, however, we are left empty-handed and unfortunately have to swallow a bitter pill.”
