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A goal is just falling here: Thomas Ouwejan jumps into an attempt at clarification by Robin Becker
Photo: David Inderlied / dpa
FC Schalke 04 won their home game against Dynamo Dresden 3-0 (1-0) and celebrated their third win in a row in the 2nd Bundesliga. Thomas Ouwejan scored the opening goal for the Royal Blues (20th minute), while the Dutchman was involved as a preparer for Marius Bülter's header (78th). Marcin Kaminski achieved the final score (90th + 4). With the victory, the Gelsenkirchen team improved to second place in the table behind FC St. Pauli, but Jahn Regensburg could overtake them on Sunday.
The newcomer from Dresden was able to make the early stages of the game quite even against the Bundesliga relegated, S04 keeper Martin Fraisl saved a few half-chances. The first good opportunity, however, belonged to Schalke: Rodrigo Zalazar hit the post with a low shot (20th). Only a short time later the ball was in the Dresden goal - nobody had even shot: Instead, full-back Ouwejan had ventured into the opponent's penalty area while pressing, blocked a clarification action from Robin Becker and deflected the ball by his pursuit so that it found its way at the bottom left into the guests' goal (20th).
After the break, Yaroslav Mikhailov missed an excellent chance to make it 2-0 by shoving the ball too laxly into the arms of Dresden goalkeeper Kevin Broll (50th).
Schalke owed the strong Fraisl that this did not take revenge: The Austrian steered a Pascal Sohm header over the goal (63rd) and directed a shot by Christoph Daferner from a tight angle over the goal (69th).
Kaminski hits again almost with the final whistle
Dresden was denied a goal despite a committed performance, the Schalke team among a good 54,000 fans in the Veltins-Arena were able to rejoice three times in the second half: First about the comeback of captain Danny Latza, who had to sit out for several months with a knee injury ( 65th), then over Bülter's header after a corner kick (80th) and finally over Marcin Kaminski's last-minute goal (90th + 4).
For the central defender it was the second goal of this kind in a row: Last week, Kaminski Schalke had scored after 95 minutes to beat Hannover 96.
