Match of the month: Two home wins in four days
Borussia Dortmund visit the Ulrich Haberland Stadium on 9 September 1983. 12,000 spectators witness an exciting and physical Bundesliga match on that Friday night.
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The visitors respond to the Werkself taking the lead with an almost immediate equaliser in both the first and second halves. Firstly, Raducanu levels at 1-1 after Wolfgang Vöge put Leverkusen ahead. Jürgen Röber makes it 2-1 with a flying header on 76 minutes but the BVB striker Werner Dressel equalises with a shot from the edge of the box three minutes later. However, Leverkusen's new young striker Herbert Waas strikes with a brace to become the matchwinner.
After that impressive 4-2 home win, all Bayer 04 fans are looking forward to the game against Hamburg SV the European Cup winners, champions of Germany and runners-up in the Intercontinental Cup. The home game against the North Germany team – a game on matchday four that had to be postponed to 13 September 1983 due to Hamburg playing in the final of the Intercontinental Cup against the South American champions Gremio Porto Alegre – was witnessed by 20,300 spectators in a full house at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium.
A lively and battling Werkself beat the champions of Germany 2-0 with another two goals from Herbert Waas. The feeling under the Bayer Cross for the first time is that we could really compete for a European finish. And Bayer 04 do that right up to the final game of the season but just miss out in the end.
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