That was a sovereign season opener for Schalke 04 at MSV Duisburg, the team coached by Andre Breitenreiter won with 5: 0 (3: 0), showing a strong early form – despite a awarded penalty kick. However, the Gelsenkirchen also benefited from a sending-off against the hosts. “The guys have been burning from the very first minute. The second yellow card and it has of course made it easier for us. But our performance was really strong,” praised Schalke coach Andre Breitenreiter.
Oh, this Schalke. If it would not give, they would have to invent. While the football free time in the length pulled like a sun soft gum between asphalt and shoe sole, the Royal Blues attended diligently for entertainment. But the farce to Kevin-Prince Boateng made outside of Gelsenkirchen for Schenkelklopfer and inside for heavily wrinkled eyebrows. The “Bad Boy” has been known to be suspended in the past season and was this summer in the shop window. Eight million euros will allegedly get to Schalke, because the mere disappearance of the payroll would be a profit. Sporting Lisbon had almost signed him, but then failed the transfer.
“Boateng has undergone the medical check in Lisbon and has failed because of knee problems, “said Sporting’s manager Augusto Inacio. Now Horst Heldt looking feverishly for a new club, the not so meticulously looking at X-ray images. Besiktas Istanbul should be interested. With medical checks out of luck had the “Royal Blues” really this summer. A change of Sidney Sam, who had been suspended at the same time with Boateng failed in Frankfurt an der doctors hurdle. Schalke made from a virtue of necessity and pardoned Sam. Felipe Santana on the other hand fell in Cologne by the Medicine Control, the doctors found a torn muscle in the calf.
What were the Schalke happy that the focus finally rested again on the rolling ball. So was able to show the club that he can not deliver the bad, but also great shopping. Three New coach Andre presented width rider who himself is a newcomer, yes, in the Cup game against second division promoted Duisburg. The Brazilian Junior Caicara, the Schalke had fetched from the Bulgarian club PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, was allowed to ran at right-back. In addition, the coach had his Master transfers going on: Johannes Geis, losgeeist for twelve million euros from Mainz, started in central midfield. And Franco di Santo (came to 6.5 million euros from Bremen) stormed alongside Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Speaking:. The two attackers made equal in different ways way talked about. Huntelaar by after only three minutes, the 1: 0! By a Choupo-Moting recycled-edge casual. And di Santo by failed after half an hour with a penalty of Duisburg goalkeeper Michael Ratajczak. Since the penalty a second yellow card against Branimir Bajic was however preceded by the euphoria of the hosts was limited. With a man less against a higher class team – because optimism was hard
And actually took Schalke the staff outnumbered quickly.. Even before the break, the game was decided. In the 39th minute headed defender Matija Nastasic a corner of Johannes Geis to 2: 0 a. Then Geis crowned his strong debut in the new club: In stoppage time of the first half, he scored a free-kick into the net, but clearly favored by the poor positional play of Duisburg final Mann, who had speculated on a ball in the wall corner
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The Schalke match was good to look at. Width Reiter tried to make the back four are close together in defense and in midfield. The agile outside Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting and Julian Draxler made pressure on the flanks, Geis and Leon Goretzka at headquarters arranged the game. And the two center forward could be to fall back again and again to support the midfield. The defensive thinking, anchored still under Roberto Di Matteo seems to have given way to a new offensive content.
Of course, now the outnumbered the MSV was noticeable. So it took after the break only 18 minutes until the 4: 0 dropped. And again made penalty-killer Ratajczak no good figure. He punched a free kick by Dennis Aogo from the half right in the middle. There, at the level of the penalty point, Franco di Santo spotted his chance to make amends. And this time he won the duel against the goalkeeper. He chased a volley so powerfully under the crossbar that Ratajczak could only look behind.
The rest was sovereign duty. That Leon Goretzka its good performance even five minutes before the end with the 5: 0 crowned, was only logical. He wurschtelte through the defense and hit a low shot against Ratajczak, who will not keep the game in good memory.
anger, there was an incident in the stands , A banner reading “2011? Even Rudi can not remember!” MSV had pendant with 0 in the first half of the fan curve in allusion to the Schalke four years ago: 5 upheld lost cup final. Rudi Assauer, former manager of the Royal Blues is suffering from Alzheimer’s for several years. The manager of MSV Duisburg, Bernd Maas, apologized after the game: “It’s an ugly incident that called MSV fans have shown such a poster That Rudi Assauer does not deserve these were individual spinners, and I’m very.. sorry. “
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