1: 1 in Cologne – VfL Osnabrück misses the leap to third place | NDR.de – Sports
Status: 02/14/2022 10:12 p.m
Third division football club VfL Osnabrück missed the leap to relegation rank three. The Lower Saxony played 1-1 (0-1) at FC Viktoria Köln on Monday evening and remain fifth in the table in the pursuit role.
“We’ve planned to do more. But we started the game far too badly for that. The first few minutes were okay, but then the first half was pretty mixed up by us. But we came back well in the second half. Overall, it was I think that’s a fair draw,” said Osnabrück midfielder Ulrich Taffertshofer, who celebrated his 30th birthday on Monday, in an interview with “VfL-TV.” Who knows what the point is good for,” added the veteran A look at the exciting fight for promotion Small consolation for Taffertshofer and his team: They remained undefeated in their seventh game in 2022.
VfL with two big chances in the early stages
VfL started energetically in the stadium in the Höhenberg sports park and could have led after a few seconds when Omar Traoré shot free-standing, but missed. An even better scoring opportunity came five minutes later from Ba-Muaka Simakala. The attacker ran alone to keeper Elias Bördner, but aimed his shot a little too high. In return, Viktoria’s striker Seok-ju Hong had a huge chance to make it 1-0 after a perfectly executed counterattack. But the 18-year-old South Korean – one of the most conspicuous players in the first half – also missed the goal (7th).
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Ex-Bremer Philipp puts Cologne in the lead
After the turbulent initial phase, Osnabrück was less and less able to use its attacks well. Cologne acted a little more confidently and purposefully in the forward movement and were the better team in the middle of the first half. David Philipp rewarded the Rhinelanders for their very high commitment in the 30th minute with the 1:0. The native of Hamburg, who switched from Werder Bremen’s U23s to Merheimer Heide last summer, overcame keeper Philipp Kühn with a sensitive free-kick. Soon after, Hong could have raised the ball with a header, but again not precisely enough (36′).
And the VfL? Lower Saxony were only in danger of scoring again in the final phase of the first half. Marc Heider (45th) and Sebastian Klaas (45th + 1) just missed the equalizer.
Köhler compensates for Osnabrück
After the change of sides, Lower Saxony was initially lucky not to get 0: 2 in when Philipp shot the post (49th). 60 seconds later the ball was in the goal on the other side: Sven Köhler maneuvered an assist from
Aaron Opoku via direct acceptance into the net. As a result, both teams stuck to their offensive orientation from the start, so that the spectators continue to see an open exchange of blows.
The guests, who were close to their second goal through Traoré, left a slightly fresher impression. However, the 24-year-old failed to keep goalkeeper Bördner (64th). It was already the last big chance for the North Germans. A chance for Viktoria Luca Marseiler to make it 2-1 shortly before Ultimo. He moved free-standing (88th), so that it remained a performance-based draw.
Matchday 26, February 14, 2022, 7:00 p.m