U21 FC Köln Defeated by Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 2-1: Match Recap and Analysis

The U21 of 1. FC Köln lost their home game against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1:2 (0:2) on Saturday afternoon. Despite a late dream goal.

Finally, the burden from the first half and the rest of the chances after half time were too much: 1. U21s FC Köln lost 2-1 against RW Oberhausen despite an improvement in performance after the break. Central defender Mikail Özkan was the unlucky one in the regional league game, Oliver Schmitt’s artistic goal came too late.

Result

14. Summary: Emin Kujovic could not prevent a cross from the south of Cologne. Mikail Özkan left his opponent alone in the middle, so Cottrell Ezekwem could score unchallenged with a flying header at the five 0:1.

33. Summary: Mikail Özkan remained the unlucky man in the FC defense. After leaving his opponent Ezekwem free again with a header from the crossbar, he brought down Phil Sieben, who was running from Özkan’s back, in the penalty area. Moritz Stoppelkamp safely converted the penalty 0:2. Sbonias was so upset that he was shown a yellow card afterwards.

82. Summary: Meiko Waschenbach played the ball in the penalty area against Tidiane Toure, who crossed almost from the baseline to the middle. Olli Schmitt used the high ball expertly with an overhead kick into the near corner 1:2.

Special events: The start of the game was delayed by four minutes because three Oberhausen fans were leaning on the fence in front of the visitors’ block behind the goal and made no move to leave the field. A call from stadium announcer Michael Trippel initially had no effect.

Only after the intervention of Oberhausen captain Sven Kreyer did one of these three climb over the fence back into the visitors’ block. However, the remaining two, who could be visually assigned to the active view of RWO fans, watched the game from the inside, surrounded by several stewards. However, this did not seem to be a problem anymore for the referee Annika Kost, so the game could start.

The background to the case was that the Oberhausen fence flag was stolen by Cologne fans almost two years ago in the Franz Kremer stadium. Oberhausen’s team clearly wanted to prevent a repeat this time through an internal presence.

Personal

That’s how FC played: Nickisch – Toure, Bakatukanda, Özkan, Sponsel (90th+1 Suchanek) – Strauch (63rd Wagner), Kujovic (90th+1 Thalteges), Höger, Waschenbach (90th+1 Becker) – Schmitt, Potocnik

To fix them: FC coach Evangelos Sbonias only changed his starting eleven in one situation compared to the 3-1 away win in Lippstadt: Arda Süne was completely missing from the team, Emin Kujovic took his place in the first eleven.

Decision

After the break, the U21s failed to capitalize on their chances. Due to the amount of possibilities, the equality should be achieved. In particular, Meiko Waschenbach, who led the offensive after the break (48th / 53rd / 76th), but also Marco Höger (77th) and Jaka Potocnik (78th) missed promising opportunities for Cologne. Seen over the 90 minutes, RWO’s success was flat. The U21’s slipped to tenth place in the table due to their twelfth defeat of the season.