FC Schalke 04 shot themselves to second place in the 2nd Bundesliga for at least one day.
The Royal Blues won 3-0 (1-0) at home against SG Dynamo Dresden on Saturday evening and are now level on points with front-runner FC St. Pauli.
The guests played at eye level for a long time, but could not score a goal.
Gelsenkirchen - After around 20 minutes, Schalke managed to put real pressure on the Dresden goal for the first time. Reinhold Ranftl crossed into the penalty area, goalkeeper Kevin Broll saves the shot. But Thomas Ouwejan turned with an outstretched leg into the rebound and pushed the ball into the Dresden net (20th). Marius Bülter landed the second goal for the Royal Blues in the 78th minute, Marcin Kaminski made the decision in the fourth minute of stoppage time.
FC coach Dimitrios Grammozis was critical of the performance of his team despite the three goals.
“It was the difficult game expected.
The guys were prepared for it, we knew that the opponents would probably attack us, ”he said.
Above all, standard situations were important.
“It may not have been our best game today in terms of play.
But that is also second division, to be patient and then strike at the right moment. "
In the 40th minute, Schalke's striker Simon Terodde almost managed to break the second Bundesliga goal record.
Terodde stood alone in front of the gate - but Bülter's flank rolled past him.
This means that Terodde will have to share the goalscoring record with Dieter Schatzschneider for a while, both of whom have scored 153 times so far.
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In the end there is a 3-0 defeat.
The Saxons hardly came into their own on the offensive.
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Terodde sets a second division goal record for Schatzschneider
Simon Terodde from FC Schalke 04 has set Dieter Schatzschneider's 34-year-old goal record in the 2nd Bundesliga.
The Schalke goalscorer also scored 3-0 in the 77th minute against FC Ingolstadt on Sunday and scored his 153rd goal in the second division.
He drew level with Schatzschneider, who was active in the lower house for Hannover 96 and Fortuna Cologne until 1987.
Terodde sets a second division goal record for Schatzschneider
The guests kept up well with the game over a long distance and were even the more active team at times.
Even after the 0-1 deficit, they were not deterred and continued to play courageously, especially in the second half.
Ultimately, however, the Dynamo attack lacked assertiveness.
Coach Alexander Schmidt saw it this way: "I think anyone who saw the game today will be amazed at the end of the day that it is 3-0." Only in the last third was the team not precise enough.
"In the end it's a bitter 3-0, it hurts us."
The 54,526 fans in the Veltins-Arena could look forward to the return of Danny Latza, who was substituted on in the second half.
The Schalke captain had been absent for several months due to a knee injury.
The police were also busy with the risk game on Saturday evening.
According to the police, there was an argument in the block of the Dresden fans.
Several folders were injured, the police wrote on Twitter.
The investigations into the background continued accordingly.
Even before the game, the police registered several crimes.
A dynamo trailer is said to have shown a Hitler salute on arrival, the officials found pyrotechnics on a young Schalke supporter.
dpa
