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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.
Thomas Hörster was born in Essen on 27 November 1956. As a child, he took part in high diving and judo, but was also passionate about football. After starting out at Blau-Weiß Holsterhausen-Essen, he moved on to ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen. As a U19 player, he trained with the senior side for the first time. And at just under 18 years of age, Thommy – as he is known – made his debut in Bundesliga 2. Over two-and-a-half seasons, he made 71 appearances for Schwarz-Weiß Essen.
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Bernd Dreher was born in Leverkusen on 2 November 1966 and he began playing football at SV Schlebusch at the age of five. At the age of nine, he joined the youth academy at Bayer 04. There, the goalkeeper progressed through all the youth teams and, with the U19s in 1985, he reached the final of the German Championship, that Bayer 04 lost 4-2 to Eintracht Frankfurt.
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Robson Ponte was born on 6 November 1976 in São Paulo. He began his football career in Brazil with CA Juventus. He then played for América FC and Guarani FC. In 1999, he joined Bayer 04. Robson initially played for the Werkself until 2001. He then moved to VfL Wolfsburg on a two-year loan. There, he continued to develop and gained valuable experience in the Bundesliga. In 2003, he returned to Leverkusen, where he particularly showcased his dribbling skills and his ability in attacking midfield. In total, he made 79 appearances for Bayer 04 and scored six goals.
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In this video you can see impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 from the month of November. It's not always about the beauty of the goals, but also a reminder of special games and players.
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On Sunday, 4 November 1951, the first league derby between Bayer 04 and FC Köln took place. The FC Köln stadium in Müngersdorf was absolutely bursting at the seams for this clash. A veritable invasion of Bayer 04 fans from Leverkusen set off for Cologne by tram and bus. From midday onwards, in addition to the scheduled services, six extra tram services ran at the standard fare from Leverkusen Town Hall to the stadium in Cologne. At the same time, buses operated by Grein ran regularly from Wiesdorf market square to Cologne. In the end, over 5,000 Bayer 04 fans waved their black and red flags in the stands at the FC Köln stadium and got behind their team for ninety minutes.
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