Match Reports

GAME 1:
August 18, 2002
Decent start to the new season
Wuppertaler SV - Schwarz-Weiss Essen 2:0(0:0)

WSV opened up the 2001-02 Oberliga campaign with a decent 2-0 win over SW Essen.

The Lions came out strong, demostarting good speed and physical play. The guests were lame and easily pushed into the defensive. Nevertheless, weak finishing prevented WSV from wrapping things up by halftime, particularily rom last season's top scorer, Alex Kohout. In the 2nd half, WSV actually let up a bit, but the chances continued to flow. Jacques Goumai put the Wuppertalers ahead when he was left unmarked in front of the goal. A few minutes later both Goumai and Kipre missed huge chances to wrap up the game. Essen only really had a single chance in the whole game, which brought a nice save from keeper Nils Heese.

The best WSV player was probably the newcomer Jean-Louis Tavarez, who repeatedly caused problems for the Essen defense, and even had one shot cleared off the line (although it looked like it actually should have been called a goal.)

The small crowd of under 1,800 fans is not too surprising, given the fact that WSV has sucked enough over the past couple of years and wasted most fan support. However, if this is the start of a decent campaign, we can expect the numbers to go back up.

Wuppertaler SV:
Heese - Janssen, Klemmer, Hyza, Mademann - Steup (73. Voike), Bayertz, Walbröhl (81.Kurt), Tavarez - Kohout (64. Kipre), Goumai

ETB SW Essen: Miernik - Janßen (83. Bungur), Saracevic, Kuhn (Bennies)- Rohleder, Wronischewski, Daldalian, Möllensiep, Schnelle -Kurmali, Hoffman (46. Kundrotas).

Scoring: 1:0 Goumai (61.), 2:0 Janssen (90., pen)

Att: 1.750