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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.
Tranquillo Barnetta was born in St. Gallen in Switzerland on 22 May 1985. Quillo, as he was called in the football world, has Italian roots. His great-grandfather emigrated from Italy to the east of Switzerland. Quillo was interested in football early on and he played for the St. Gallen club FC Rotmonten from the age of six. He joined his favourite club FC St. Gallen at the age of 11. There he became a youth international. He won the European Championships with his teammates in the Switzerland U17 team in 2002. The youngsters from Switzerland beat France 4-2 on penalties in the final to become U17 European champions.
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Since the establishment of the Bundesliga on 28 July 1962 for the 1963/64 season, there have been five Regional Leagues: North, Berlin, West, South-west and South. The champions of those five leagues qualified directly for promotion play-offs that were played in two groups of four teams. That included the two second-placed teams in the West and South-west Regional Leagues. The two runners-up from the North and the South played a qualifier for the eighth place in the promotion games.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of May. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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There were high summer temperatures in Leverkusen on 25 May 1985. Matchday 32 brings FC Köln to the Ulrich Haberland Stadium with only 13,000 spectators at the derby. That is primarily due to the Werkself with Bayer 04 rarely impressing in that season and they are eleventh in the table before the game just three points ahead of sixteenth, the play-off spot. But with the two points for a win rule back then – two points were awarded for a win – and with the significantly better goal difference, the Werkself need every point to get out of trouble.
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It was all or nothing on the final matchday in the Verbandsliga in the 1974/75 season. Only now would it be decided who were champions and thereby participate in the promotion games to the Bundesliga 2 North. The earlier rivals Viktoria Köln, SC Jülich 10 and Bonner SC have fallen by the wayside.
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