After eleven match days, a leading group has emerged in Landesliga Group 2 in the Lower Rhine region.

Six points separate VfB Bottrop and DJK Sportfreunde Katernberg: that is the gap between the league leaders and the sixth-placed team in the Lower Rhine Regional League Group 2.

This is how the 11th match day went: VfB Bottrop won 4-3 against Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 at their home stadium, Jahnstadion. In front of 100 spectators, Ahmed Jemaiel, Enes Bilgin, and Raphael Steinmetz (2) scored for Bottrop.

Meanwhile, ESC Rellinghausen, VfB’s closest rival, lost 1-0 to Viktoria Goch in the top match. Maximilian Fuchs (88th minute) scored the goal of the day at Essen’s Krausen Bäumchen.

SV Budberg, third in the table, drew 1-1 with PSV Wesel-Lackhausen. Meanwhile, SV Scherpenberg continues to march forward. Under interim coach and sporting director Sven Schützek, the team secured its fifth win in a row with a 4-1 victory over Mülheimer FC 97. The Moers team is fifth in the table and only four points away from first place. The strong newcomers DJK Sportfreunde Katernberg can also look up. The Essen team won the city derby against SC Werden-Heidhausen 3-0. In front of 160 spectators, Marcel Welscher, Maurice Tavio Y Huete, and Timo Conde scored for coach Sascha Hense’s team. FC Kray managed to stop their recent run of six consecutive defeats for the time being, securing a 2-2 draw at 1.FC Lintorf. The match between VfB Speldorf and GSV Moers also ended in a draw. There was no winner in Mülheim in a goalless draw. Meanwhile, Sportfreunde Niederwenigern and SG Schönebeck won their matches. Niederwenigern won 5-2 at bottom-of-the-table SV Rhenania Bottrop. And Schönebeck won 4-0 at home at Ardelhütte against Blau-Weiß Mintard. Soheib Benhamza, Nick Hillmann, Yasar Cakir, and Yassine Bentaleb scored the goals for SG Schönebeck.