TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus - WSV 0:1

Paderborn:
Joswig - Dotchev - Bräer (68. Grundmann), Mrugalla - Ewen, Buitys, Brückner (41. Poppowitsch), Maaß, Mutlu (71. Di Salvo) - Karpowicz, Albrecht,
Coach: Rybarczyk

Wuppertal:
Heinen - Mademann - Menzel (7. Wüster), Becker - Steup (54. Broos), Hartwig (68. Kaul), Meinke, Hajradinovic, Panait - Müller, N'Diaye
Coach: Jerat

Scoring: 0:1 Müller (75.)
Referee: Steinborn (Sinzig)
Attendance:1.000
Yellow cards: Panait, Hajradinovic

An important victory for WSV! After some rather lame performances, they are able to bring home the bacon in a cold-blooded manner. Although they really can't be too happy about the need to play defensively, at this points we need to take the points any way we can get them. Oldtimer Müller must be thinking he's really Gerd instead of Rudi. But as long as he keeps knocking them in, who cares?

Next week is a real test against Wattenscheid. They seem to be putting pressure on the once inassailable Oberhausen, and they'll want to turn up the screws in Zoo-Stadion...

Müller continues the series

TuS coach Rybarczk was forced to make a change (Buitys for Vogt, who was banned for a red card), WSV chief Jerat confided in the starting lineup from last week. And with success: WSV won in Paderborn, and is now unbeaten in 7 games. However, the 7th victory of the season was somewhat lucky, as TuS was the stronger team for much of the match.

East-Westphalians ( sounds like a dog breed - ed. started aggressive, selfconfident, engaging and goal oriented. However, when the rubber met the road, they failed with their wimpy shooting. Ewen (19. and 40.), Albrecht (23. and 30), as Mrugalla and Poppowitsch (each in 62.) missed a half dozen huge chances.

Meanwhile, the Wuppertalers packed the defense and counter-attacked sparingly, but in an ice-cold manner converted their only real mentionable chance. N'Diaye beat Grundmann on the left wing, and his cross hit Müler on the nose. The 36 year old scored without any resistance - the "golden goal" and also his 3rd of the season.

Based on "kicker" article of Mar 3 97