Wuppertaler SV - SC Verl 2:5

Wuppertal:
Heinen - Müller - Menzel, Zilles - Walbröhl, Steup, , Breitzke, Simmes (62. Broos), N'Gombo (72. Knezovic) - Hartwig, Goulet (46. Meinke)
Coach: Jerat

Verl:
Ortkemper - Warbende - Neuschäfer, Ostermann - Fengler, Stern, Baziuk, Schmidt, Zuraski (84. Stachurski) - Gebhardt (72. Parotta), Raschke (64. Walz)
Coach: Eilenfeldt

Scoring: 0:1 Warbende (35.), 0:2 Zuraski (37.), 0:3 Baziuk (45.), 1:3 Meinke (62.), 2:3 Warbende (78. own goal), 2:4 Zuraski (85.), 2:5 Baziuk (88.)
Referee: Wicht (Bonn)
Attendance: 2.500
Yellow cards: Menzel - Zuraski, Schmidt

Despite some good play, WSV was hammered by the Verl club. This would clearly seem to indicate that WSV will not be challenging at all for a top spot unless something changes drastically in the near future.
Crazy soccer! WSV was classically "out-countered". Verl showed up in front of the WSV goal 6 times - and 5 of those resulted in goals.

And WSV started off the game very strongly, and played out 3 or 4 clear chances. Mostly in the middle of these chances was Brent Goulet, who had been relieved of most defensice duties. However, the American forward had bad luck: after 5 minutes, he hit the post, and after 19 minutes a beautiful diving header hit the crossbar ( Based on kicker article from 10/14/96 )