Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Germania Ratingen (2nd, 67 pts) held a 26-point advantage over Kleve (16th, 41 pts). Kleve's recent output outran their position: 1st on form over five rounds, 16th in the table. Scoring rates set the scale: Kleve 1.26 scored and 1.82 conceded per game, Germania Ratingen 2.53 and 1.41, with the league averaging 1.73.
Kleve entered with five losses in a row. The five-game form split read 0/15 points for Kleve against 8/15 for Germania Ratingen.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 1 Kleve win, 2 for Germania Ratingen, 2 draws, at 3.6 goals per meeting. Goals tend to flow: 80% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 80%.
The match was played at VolksBank-Arena an der Welbershöhe (capacity 6,000). It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.