For the third time in a row, regional league team Rot-Weiß Oberhausen can’t get past a 0-0 draw. Coach Jörn Nowak sees too many mistakes and too little courage.
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is treading water in the Regionalliga West. Against 1. FC Bocholt, the cloverleaves remained unbeaten for the eighth time in a row on Matchday 9, but also missed a win for the third time in a row.
More precisely, it was the third goalless draw after the games against Fortuna Köln and Rot Weiss Ahlen. Accordingly, Jörn Nowak was also unhappy after the game. “In addition to the outcome of the game, I am also dissatisfied with the performance today,” criticized the head coach. “That was simply too little to win.”
After a pressure-packed opening phase in which Pierre Fassnacht left the best of several RWO chances in front of the empty net after a corner, Oberhausen found it increasingly difficult to create any scoring threat. “We wanted to bring the force of the stands into the game and got a lot of activity on the pitch at the start,” Nowak first praised the positives from the start of the game before analyzing, “But then for our goals and the quality of the individual players, there are too many mistakes, we are not brave enough and too few sequences fit. “
This was particularly noticeable in the second period. Bocholt allowed little, but also cut its teeth on the Oberhausen defense. “We need to show a different winning mentality right away and increase our quality in possession. There’s a reason we haven’t scored in three games. That has to improve against Düren,” the coach warned ahead of the next task.
And it’s a tough one. Because when RWO travels to 1. FC Düren next Saturday (October 7, 2 p.m.), the Kleeblätter will face the second-place team in the table. “We had few clear chances in the second half, and then mostly when it got wild. That is then also too little to also set the Lucky Punch. “
We’ve seen scoring chances, it’s now a matter of pushing the thing over the line.
Jörn Nowak
As this also failed the Bocholtern, there was again the 0:0. Pressure on the guests could not exert the Oberhausenern even late. “I would have liked more body language there today, more initiative and that we show that we want to win,” Nowak looked at the game in conclusion. “I’d rather accept getting a counterattack at the end and conceding the goal.”
Nevertheless, Nowak and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen hope that the knot in the offense will soon burst again. The top of the table is still only four points away. “After all, we’ve seen scoring chances, it’s now a matter of pushing the thing over the line,” Nowak called for more effectiveness in the coming weeks.
