Once Offenbach is in the lead, it will be difficult for any opponent. The Ulm team also experience this in the duel between the traditional teams
It was exactly 25 minutes played in the stadium on Bieberer Berg. One-two between Maik Vetter and Elia Soriano, Vetter pulled from about 20 meters and the ball hit Niclas Heimann in the top left corner of the goal. The Offenbacher Kickers led by this dream goal 1-0 against the SSV Ulm 1846 Football, and from that moment on it was clear that it would be incredibly difficult for the sparrows to take something away from this big game of the Regionalliga Südwest.
Not only because Tobias Rühle, Ulm’s best goalscorer of the season, was missing after the fifth yellow card. Offenbach is also known to be the strongest defensive team in the league. The Kickers have conceded only 21 goals so far this season, six of them in their own stadium. On Saturday there was no further addition, it stayed 1-0 in this duel between the two traditional teams, the Ulm series of eleven games without defeat was torn. The goalscorer Maik Vetter stated afterwards with satisfaction: “We are difficult to crack.”
Of course, the people of Ulm tried everything and everyone. After an hour, coach Holger Bachthaler made a double change: Adrian Beck and Daniele Gabriele came in for Nicolas Jann and Felix Higl. Later, Anton Fink, who had mutated from king transfer to phantom in the sparrows squad, got a chance again. The guests actually had more possession of the ball and more play, but this rarely resulted in any real danger to the opponent’s box. Most likely after just over an hour, when the enormously strong Offenbach goalkeeper Stephan Flauder defused a shot by Robin Heußer in the lower right corner. In stoppage time even the advanced Heimann came to a conclusion, but his colleague Flauder did not have a real problem with this ball. Otherwise tried it Ulm mostly from a distance, it wasn’t mandatory.
Nevertheless, Holger Bachthaler’s protégés left an impression in the 100-year-old stadium on Bieberer Berg. Offenbach’s defender Ronny Marcos said: “The Ulm team performed very, very well, they played good football.” Bachthaler stated: “It wasn’t the better team that won, but the more effective one.” He didn’t make any of his players Accusation that the trainer of the Spatzen even said: “You can’t play football better in Offenbach.” Of course, you could develop a little more risk of goals and even score a goal against the Kickers. But as you know, almost every team in the Regionalliga Südwest has a hard time with that.
At the top of the table, SC Freiburg II continues to draw its circles relatively lonely. The Bundesliga reserve of the Breisgauer did the compulsory task in Balingen humorless with a 1-0 victory and is six points ahead of Offenbach. Steinbach is one more point behind after the 1-1 draw against Pirmasens, eight points are now missing for Freiburg. There are still twelve compulsory tasks on the program this season. The sparrows’ chance of advancement is now a little smaller than Leipzig’s of the German championship.
SSV Ulm 1846 football: Heimann – Schmidts, Geyer, Reichert, Stoll – Sapina, Rochelt, Coban (75th Fink), Heußer, Jann (60th Beck) – Higl (60th Gabriele).
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