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After just four minutes, goal getter Matthias Brücken finds the back of the net and the thousands of fans who travelled to support their team in Solingen can celebrate. Amazingly the lead does not settle the Werkself down. The midfield of Thomas Hörster, Klaus Bruckmann und Norbert Ziegler can't show their strengths. And as the sweeper Jürgen Gelsdorf, who is constantly booed by the Solingen fans after an unnecessary foul, loses his rhythm with a number of misplaced passes, the Bayer 04 game falters. Only Solingen create chances and they manage to equalise before half-time in spite of an outstanding performance by the keeper Fred Bockholt. The Union players tire after an hour but Bayer 04 are unable to pick themselves up again. Both sides end up satisfied with a 1-1 draw.
Fourth-placed Rot-Weiss Essen visit Leverkusen five days later. It's a Friday night, 19.30 and the Ulrich Haberland Stadium is a hubub of excitement. 15,000 spectators want recompense for the poor game against Union Solingen and they are rewarded. The Werkself besiege the Essen goal from the start and take the lead through Peter Szech on 19 minutes. As the Essen player Bartel is rightly sent off for a bad foul on the goalscorer two minutes later, the margin of victory is the only question for Bayer 04. The Werkself score three more goals in the second half. Midfielder Klaus Bruckmann with two and an own goal extend the lead the final score of 4-0. Slowly the last doubter is dreaming of promotion.
The next opponents are relegation candidates Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid. 5,000 spectators are at the Nattenberg Stadium,with the league leaders again supported by several hundred Bayer 04 fans, and they end up going home disappointed. The performance of a potential promotion club is below par and coach Willibert Kremer rages after the game: "Almost all my players lacked get-up-and-go and showed little ambition. The team had forgotten their main strength of pace." Nevertheless, it is enough to secure a 3-1 win against an uncertain opponent and that is above all down to goalkeeper Fred Bockholt and the two solid defenders Walter Posner and Peter Klimke. After two goals from Hans-Jürgen Scheinert and Peter Szech for the half-time lead of 2-0, the second half sees the Sauerland team create several chances. The result is finally sealed with the third goal from Leverkusen scored by Matthias Brücken on 80 minutes. Lüdenscheid score just before the final whistle but Bayer 04 remain unbeaten am top of the table with 23 points.
A win in the home game against Hannover 96 is required for a perfect October in 1978. The team from Lower Saxony are ninth in the table with 12 points just two above the relegation zone. 10,000 fans come to the stadium on that Saturday and want to see the twelfth win of the season. The Werkself do not disappoint their fans. Dieter Herzog, the captain out injured for a long time, is back again and that gives his team confidence and a sense of security. Bayer 04 lead 2-0 after 11 minutes thanks an own goal and a strike from Norbert Ziegler. The game is on edge for half an hour as the midfield with Klaus Bruckmann, Harry Gniech, Thomas Hörster and Norbert Ziegler overrun the opponents with the favoured high tempo game that has proved so successful. The big chances are not converted so the scoreline remained 2-0 at half-time. Only when the Werkself ease the tempo after the restart do Hannover have goalscoring opportunities and they pull one back on 63 minutes. The game becomes ever more hectic in the last 30 minutes but the league leaders manage to avoid conceding again. With the twelfth win in 13 games, Bayer 04 extend the lead at the top of the table and now have 25 points, a goal difference of plus 30 and are seven points ahead of second-placed Bayer 05 Uerdingen. The Werkself fans look forward to November with the two away games at third-placed Preußen Münster and against the direct rivals from Krefeld.
Bayer 04 started the new season on 20 July 1950. To the applause from almost 2,000 spectators, the Werkself stepped onto the pitch at the Am Stadtpark stadium and the season target was clear to the supporters: finally achieve promotion to the Oberliga West. Under the direction of new coach Raymond Schwab, who brought one of his Essen players with him in the shape of Karl-Heinz Spikofski, the team did a couple of laps. Coach Schwab gave a speech in front of all the fans where he clearly imparted his request for calm in the stands and he said he hated nothing more than heckling or laughing when mistakes are made. He hoped the Bayer 04 supporters would follow his advice.
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Horst Knauf was born in Cologne on 16 August 1960. As a teenager he played for PSV Köln before signing for the Bayer 04 Leverkusen U19s as a talented midfielder in 1976. He made the move up from the second team to the Bundesliga squad in 1980. Over the following three years he played 39 Bundesliga games and scored two goals. Above all in the difficult 1981/82 season for the Werkself with the play-off games against Kickers Offenbach, he played a big part in saving Bayer 04 with 21 appearances. But under the new coach Dettmar Cramer he rarely made a start and he decided to move on.
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Holger Aden was born in Hamburg on 25 August 1965. He learned all about playing football and, above all, scoring goals at the two Hamburg clubs Niendorfer TSV and TSV DuWo 08 Hamburg. After progression from the youth teams, he played for other Hamburg clubs. One after the other he appeared for Concordia Hamburg, Altona 93 and SC Norderstedt. The centre-forward regularly found the back of the opposition net. He scored 22 goals for SC Norderstedt in the 1988/89 season.
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Michael Ballack was born in Görlitz in the GDR on 26 September 1976. He displayed his talent for football at a young age. After his family moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt, now called Chemnitz, he started playing for BSG Motor ‘Fritz Heckert’ Karl-Marx-Stadt where he constantly continued to develop his ability on the pitch. From year seven he went to the children and youth sports college and there he received systematic support in sport that led, against the background of his increasing ability, to a move to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. At the age of 16, he had to take a six-month break due to growing pains, but then there was no stopping Michael after that.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of August. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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