After the final whistle, both teams recieved a raptuous reception from the local fans in Wattenscheid who had just bowed out of the DFB-Cup after a 3:1 defeat by Werder Bremen. As the third divison sides supporters celebrated a fun footballing afternoon and a late consolation goal by ex-Werder player Lars Toborg, the Werder fans were enjoying the aftermath of goals from Ivan Klasnic, Daniel Jensen and Aaron Hunt as well as their progression into the second round of the cup.

The Green-White fans were left a long time waiting for their first goal celebration. Despite Werder controlling the game in a hearty, concentrated fashion, the goal just wasn't coming. "We should have been winning 5:0 by half-time", explained Andreas Reinke with relation to the first halfs biggest defecit - effectivity in front of goal. "It was a typical cup tie", summed up Nelson Valdez, "The will was there, we really wanted to score but it just didn't work."

Schaaf: "We never gave in"

It took until the 59th minute before Werder could finally break the defencese of the excellent Wattenscheid keeper Michael Joswig. Goal scorer Ivan Klasnic admitted that he had promised Joswig that he would score during the half time break. "Although we missed so many chances in the first half, I went to the keeper at half time and told him, in a friendly manner, that I was going to put one past him in the second half."

Coach Thomas Schaaf was happy to see his side not give in after so many missed chances. "I was convinced that we would score at some stage because we never game up. I was happy that the game looked well, that we combined well and that we finished the match successfully", praised Schaaf.

Wattenscheid woke too late

"Werder played superbly", in the opinion of Schaafs colleague Georg Kre. "In the first half we were too fearful, too respectful and didn't win challenges. I felt a lot of my players were freed by the 1:0 by Werder. I'd like to know what would have happened if Terranova had equalised with his chance." But the little striker failed to hit an empty goal in the 68th minute.

Instead of that, central defender Karsten Baumann floored Torsten Frings and Daniel Jensen stepped up to convert the resulting penalty. "I have to admit that I went in to the tackle in such a way that Frings only had to let himself fall over - the referee has to blow for that", admitted the 35 year old, self-critically, after the game.