BAYERN SLIP, LEVERKUSEN AND DORTMUND WITHOUT PROBLEMS
All match reviews by Tim Leidecker tim@milanmania.com unless otherwise
stated.
17 MARCH 2002
1860 MÜNCHEN 1-2 SCHALKE
Agostino 81 Asamoah 3
Sand 83
Asamoah smashed the ball under the crossbar only 3 minutes into the
game after Möller carried the ball all the way through midfield and
centred for him. Agostino, who is wanted by ex-Löwen coach Lorant
at Fenerbahce, turned in Wiesinger's cross from close range for the
equalizer. Sand won the game only 2 minutes later when he nodded in
Vermant's corner.
Assists: Möller, Wiesinger, Vermant
Attendance: 30,000
FREIBURG 1-5 DORTMUND
Kobiashvili 9 Evanílson 15
Dedê 64
Amoroso 66
Koller 69, 70
Kobiashvili won a free kick just outside the box and curled the ball
past Lehmann and into the right-bottom corner himself. Evanílson beat
the wrongly-positioned Kruse to compatriot Dedê's cross before making
it 1-1, seemingly effortless. Sammer brought on Amoroso after an hour
and that started the rout!
The Brasilian flicked the ball to Dedê who beat reserve 'keeper Reus
with a left-footed shot. 2 minutes later Koller headed against the
crossbar and Amoroso tapped in the rebound. The big Czech attack tank
then helped himself to two goals within two minutes courtesy of good
passes from Rosický and Amoroso to finish the thrashing!
Assists: Kobiashvili, Dedê, Amoroso (x2), Rosický
Attendance: 25,000 (sold out)
16 MARCH 2002
KAISERSLAUTERN 0-0 BAYERN MÜNCHEN
Lizarazu gifted Basler the ball in the box, their legs got entangled,
clear penalty. Against the popular saying "Super Mario" took the spot
kick himself but his old teammate Kahn saved! Minutes later the FCB
'keeper had to punch a ferocious Lokvenc header out of the corner.
Grammozis and Ratinho were really, really lucky to remain on the
pitch after going through (!) Santa Cruz and Effenberg respectively.
Grammozis got his belated marching orders 12 minutes before the end
for his 2nd bookable offence, a pulling foul on Pizarro. Pettersson
had the game winner rightfully disallowed for handball, superb pass
to open up the Bayern defense by Hristov though. Andi Brehme was sent
into the stands for whining after the call.
The 15th shutout for Kahn this season.
Red Card: Grammozis 78 (Kaiserslautern)
Attendance: 40,600 (sold out)
STUTTGART 0-2 LEVERKUSEN
Brdaric 40
Berbatov 45
Leverkusen coach Toppmöller took the gamble of leaving his 1A attack
of Kirsten and Neuville on the bench in favor of the "B&B Strikers"
who played very well in midweek against Juventus and it paid off!
Balakov was back in the starting lineup for Stuttgart after making
a quick recovery from Effenberg's hard foul 2 weeks ago.
Bordon clumsily flicked onto a huge 40m pass from Schneider, Brdaric
pounced onto the ball, Wenzel was all over him but was too glabrous
to clear and N°23 scored his 1st goal of the season by slotting the
ball through Hildebrand's braces. Bastürk picked up a loose ball on
the wing, beat Hinkel in a running duel and fed Berbatov for the
easy 0-2.
Bordon was sent off for holding Nowotny, his 2nd bookable offence,
already his 3rd ejection of the season which is a new joint record
in the Bundesliga (Trares in 95/96 I think).
Assist: Bastürk
Red Card: Bordon 79 (Stuttgart)
Attendance: 25,000
BREMEN 0-3 HERTHA
Lapaczinski 62
Alex Alves 66, 85
Hertha BSC had only won once in 20 games in Bremen before this one...
"Hungarian Connection" Király and Dárdai made two good saves to deny
Bode and Verlaat early in the match. Aílton blew another two major
chances on the counter attack. Judging from the amount of chances
created, Werder has to lead 2, 3, 4-0 at half time.
Into the 2nd half: Bode missed a sitter after Király palmed Lisztes'
shot straight onto his head. Lapaczinski used Hertha's first chance
with a falling overhead kick after a goalmouth scramble. Marcelinho
dribbled 3 defenders, then pulled the ball back for Alex Alves who
only had to put it in.
Aílton missed another sitter and Dárdai cleared a Bode header on/
closely behind the line before "AA" nicely slotted in his 2nd of the
afternoon with his outside instep courtesy of Goor's cross. Werder
is World Class at creating chances but has a Sunday League standard
at using them.
With 5 wins from their last 6 matches and a most impressive scoring
scoring record of 20-2 in those games, Hertha rises all the way up
to 5th place. This side now looks like the Championship caliber team
it was supposed to be last July. It's a shame Falko Götz will be
replaced by Huub Stevens after the season...
Assists: Marcelinho, Goor
Attendance: 31,350
HAMBURG 1-1 WOLFSBURG
Barbarez 67 Klimowicz 45
Klimowicz stung Pieckenhagen's palms with a ferocious strike at 15'.
Greiner almost headed a beautiful own goal at the other end. Romeo
headed a free kick against the crossbar, Hoogma blazed over on the
follow-up. Róbson Ponté played a beautiful one-two with Klimowicz
but shot straight at the 'keeper.
At the brink of half time, Róbson Ponté whipped in a good cross from
the right side and Klimowicz towered over Fukal, who has one of the
best headers in the league himself, to score the 0-1. 10 minutes into
the 2nd half Romeo got Franz sent off for falling over his own feet!
Barbarez curled a beauty of an outside-instep shot against the post
and then combined with Meijer for the equalizer.
Assists: Róbson Ponté, Meijer
Red Card: Franz 55 (Wolfsburg)
Attendance: 37,517
KÖLN 4-2 ROSTOCK
Lottner 46 Arvidsson 6, 32
Kurth 51
Springer 76
Scherz 90
The Köln fans held up two nice transparents before the game: "Our love
for the FC is eternal, just like our hatred for you (the current crop
of players)!" and "1034 minutes without goal, 26 games, 13:48 goals,
16 points - hint: end career!"
And just like always it were the visitors who opened up a two goals
lead after barely over 30 minutes, two times through Swedish striker
Arvidsson who headed in Rydlewicz' long cross at the far post and
swapped passes with countryman Lantz before lobbing Pröll for the
0-2.
But after the break something unexpected happened: Lottner came to life
by returning Jakobsson's short clearance from inside the half moon and
setting up Kurth's equalizer at the far post with a low free kick.
Bräutigam, who is so old, he used to be Platon's chess partner back in
the days, was sent off for handballing outside the area.
Köln now tasted blood, poured it on and were rewarded when Springer
tapped in Balitsch's cross against the run of reserve 'keeper Klewer.
Scherz completed the most unlikely of all comebacks from a 90th minute
goalmouth scramble.
The FC is now at 19 points, 6 points behind 15th placed Nürnberg.
The schedule speaks strongly against them though as they still have
to face all of the Top Four i.e. Bayern (A), Schalke (H), Leverkusen
(A) and Dortmund (A) and have only 3 home games remaining.
Quite frankly, the only thing that can save them is a miracle!
Assists: Rydlewicz, Lantz, Lottner, Balitsch, Kurth
Red Card: Bräutigam 69 (Rostock)
Attendance: 21,500
MÖNCHENGLADBACH 1-0 NÜRNBERG
Sanneh 28 (og)
The Club started with Raphael Schäfer in the nets after their regular
N°1, Darius Kampa, had continually blundered in recent weeks. And it
was barely half an hour played when he had to grab behind him for the
first time when 'enforcer' Tony Sanneh beat Aidoo to Van Lent's centre.
Stiel made a good save from Krzynówek's projectile in the second half.
Demo missed an open goal after nicely dummying 2 defenders and drawing
out the 'keeper. Nikl was lucky to escape with a yellow card after an
emergency brake on Aidoo.
Gladbach's win was highly deserved!
Assist: Van Lent
Attendance: 31,000
COTTBUS 4-0 ST. PAULI
Franklin 20
Topic 28, 34
Helbig 85
'Mascot' Franklin poked Energie into the lead after Beeck flicked on
a corner and Heldt, despite being all over the Brasilian, couldn't get
to the ball. Topic received a pass from Kaluzny with his back to the
goal, laid the ball past Gibbs on one side, ran past him on the other
and slotted past the advanced Henzler to make it 2-0. Expecting Gibbs
to mark the opposing teams' top goalgetter is like trying to carry a
400 lbs. woman into the 13th floor with two broken arms!
More of the same 6 minutes later, Topic smartly used a poor first touch
to get around Gibbs, Stanislawski completely missed the ball as well
and he whacked across goal and into the far corner to effectively end
the game within 34 minutes. Piplica made a good save from Energie
reject Marcel Rath. Helbig, who idiotically has signed for Köln next
season, came on as a sub and completed the rout by stealing the rock
off Bajramovic and shooting under the 'keeper.
Assists: Beeck, Kaluzny, Kobylanski
Attendance: 16,680
Ciao,
Tim
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