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19:51
Mid-term conclusion:
Go to the cabins on time! VfL Osnabrück was able to bring the spirit of the Bremer Brücke to the pitch and took the reins from the start. However, clear scoring chances were a long time coming. It was only after a good half hour that the purple-whites started another urge phase and took the lead through Ba-Muaka Simakala. Essen is still well served with a deficit of one goal and has to come up with something for the second half.
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19:47
Simon Engelmann goes down in a duel with Sven Köhler, but the man from Osnabrück apologizes afterwards.
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19:44
At least Clemens Fandrich can catch Lawrence Ennali, who, however, beheads an arc lamp right into Philipp Kühn’s arms.
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19:43
RWE is now significantly higher, but continues to chase the ball. The goal did not do the climber any good.
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19:40
VfL stays in the forward gear, takes out one corner after the next. Essen has to be careful not to concede the second goal before the break.
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19:40
It is now very dark at the Bremen Bridge. This is not only due to the time, but also to the rain clouds opening at this moment.
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19:38
Tooor for VfL Osnabrück, 1:0 by Ba-Muaka Simakala
Here’s the tour you deserve! RWE can’t get the ball out of their own third. Omar Traoré puts his head in the middle, where Ba-Muaka Simakala hits the near corner from a short distance almost like a sidekick!
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19:37
The best opportunity of the game so far! A Simakala free kick from the right half-field rushes through to the long corner. Jakob Golz’s view is blocked, and Robert Tesche deflects slightly. The RWE keeper dives at what he sees as the right post!
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19:35
Referee Martin Speckner still has a lot to do, trying to rein in the players with calm speeches.
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19:32
Lukas Kunze tries it through the air space, but chips the ball straight into the goal.
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19:31
On the way forward, both teams combine something worth seeing. However, RWE does not make it into the dangerous zones with three smack passes in a row.
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19:29
The momentum is just a little out, even if the game is still very intense.
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19:26
Now the Schweinsteiger team has some space. Felix Higl rushes to the right and sees Ba-Muaka Simakala lurking on the edge of the box, but he fritters away the ball.
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19:24
On the Osnabrück side, more and more inaccuracies creep in in the build-up game. However, it was also clear that the purple-whites could not go past the pace of the initial phase for more than 90 minutes.
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19:22
The guests are finding their way in just a little better. Daniel Heber chips the ball to the left corner, where Simon Engelmann elegantly picks it down. The flat ball in the middle is just caught.
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19:18
A good quarter of an hour is played. Osnabrück remains the team that decides the game, RWE is waiting for pinpricks.
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19:16
Yellow card for Andreas Wiegel (Rot-Weiss Essen)
The gait remains hard. Andreas Wiegel lets Maxwell Gyamfi jump over the blade.
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19:15
RWE appears dangerously in front of the opposing box for the first time by standard. Niklas Tarnat spins the ball into the head of José-Enrique Ríos-Alonso, who heads well wide of the right post.
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19:13
Osnabrück has significantly more of the game in the first ten minutes. Now it goes to the right, but even Sven Köhler does not find a buyer with his low cross.
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19:09
Kleinhansl beats one cross after the other in the early stages. José-Enrique Ríos-Alonso falls to the low ball, but the hand is not in play.
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19:07
The purple-whites remain in forward gear. Lukas Kunze pulls out a corner ball on the left.
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19:06
The fouled player takes the free kick himself and hits the cross on the far post. In the turmoil, however, the guests can clarify.
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19:05
There’s fire right at the start. Lawrence Ennali clears Florian Kleinhansl in the backward movement and owes a promising free kick for VfL.
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19:03
It starts with a kick-off for the guests dressed in red!
19:00
The usual great atmosphere at the Bremen Bridge while the teams arrive!
18:45
Tobias Schweinsteiger has made three changes compared to the 4-3 defeat against Oldenburg. Manuel Haas, Leandro Putaro and Marc Heider move out of the starting XI. Florian Kleinhansl, Lukas Kunze and Felix Higl are new. Essen’s starting XI remains unchanged.
18:39
A full crowd is expected for today’s game. By Thursday evening, 14,000 tickets had already been sold. Luckily, the Bremer Bridge is covered, because it could well rain again.
18:32
The last direct duels between the two teams took place in the 2005/2006 Regionalliga season. Essen won both games and ultimately rose to the 2nd Bundesliga as champions, while Osnabrück remained in the third division. RWE was even able to win the last encounter at the Bremen Bridge 4:1, with Arie van Lent and Danko Boskovic tying up double packs.
18:25
“Wins are like balm for the soul. It took us a long time to win and we’ve now improved our situation. We simply rewarded ourselves for the great effort and of course that’s good for the team, for all of us,” said a happy Essen’s head coach Christoph Dabrowski on the first three of the season.
18:23
Rot-Weiss Essen didn’t start the season optimally either, but they managed to win their first game with a 2-1 home win on the last day of the game and thus escape the relegation zone. With six points each, both VfL and RWE are currently just above the line.
18:17
“It was a wild game,” summed up Tobias Schweinsteiger after his debut on the Osnabrück coaching bench. His team was already 3:1 in the lead, but finally lost 3:4 in Oldenburg. After the defeat in the Weser-Ems area, the purple-whites have been waiting for a win for six games.
18:02
Have a nice evening and welcome to the Friday game in the 3rd division! For Tobias Schweinsteiger, the home game against Rot-Weiss Essen is the first on the VfL Osnabrück coaching bench. Kick-off is at 7 p.m.!