Düsseldorf - At the final whistle by referee Florian Meyer, there were catcalls from the sidelines. The framework was magnificent, the number of spectators with more than 27,300 class (only in the arena opened three years ago, there were more). But unfortunately, the game could not keep up. Fortuna 0, Essen 0 - the Derby was overall a huge disappointment.
This was after a nervous start from both sides especially on the people who retreated and barricaded himself much with a kind of five-string defense's own penalty area. This came to a large number of interruptions, rather than hectic flow of the game was to be seen pure.
The heated atmosphere passed also on Fortune's team coach is not without a trace. After several warnings to him and Uwe Klein was sent Uwe Weidemann in the last minute, even on the platform - the coach was freaked out after Ahmet Cebe had been brought in a wing run by the legs, the whistle, but failed.
So it was not the first defeat of food for five years - and also the first step to the table top, the place in the sun, was missed. "The backdrop was madness, because one really needs to return something. But for us it is striker was incredibly difficult, we had the ball forward too rarely on the ground, "said the disappointed Axel Lawaree.Andreas Lambertz confessed," was missing the last bite, and the last pass, too. "Also, because after the break, RWE almost entirely walled. "We have left our cup final against food is simply too much force," said coach Heiko Bonan eating almost apologetically.
Yet of course was not all bad. "We have not allowed back, that's positive," said keeper Michael Melka, who remained in the second Punktspiel without conceding a goal. "Four points better than zero," Cebe play-offs on the disasters of the last two years.
Accounted and Weidemann, "A fair draw. Last year we had so lost a game. And eating is, after all, no fair troops. "A fair draw. Last year we had so lost a game. And eating is, after all, no fair troop.
