Cup holders Werder Bremen visited newly promoted 2nd division outfit Eisern Union at their recently renovated Alte Försterei stadium in Berlin on Sunday, facing what appeared a tricky encounter. But any potential banana-skin was casually sidestepped as 3 goals in the opening half-hour put paid to their hosts’ hopes of making the game anything other than a stroll in the sun for Thomas Schaaf’s team.
1. FC Union Berlin vs Werder Bremen 2.8.09 im Stadion an der alten Försterei
After a slight delay caused by an avalanche of streamers threatening to engulf Bremen stopper Tim Wiese’s penalty area before kick-off, the boisterous home support was temporarily subdued as Werder took Union apart with 3 clinical first half finishes.
Ivory Coast international Boubacar Sanogo got the ball rolling in the 10th minute as he beat a man on the edge of the box and planted a shot that might have been saved between goalkeeper and post following great work from new signing Marko Marin in the middle.
A Thorsten Frings corner then created mayhem in the Berlin ranks, allowing Naldo to stab home the 2nd from close range on 20 minutes. And when Portuguese forward Hugo Almeida easily beat the offside trap and laid the ball square for his strike partner Sanogo to tap into an empty net for his 2nd and Werder’s 3rd the contest seemed well and truly over as we approached the half-hour mark.
Werder then took their foot off the pedal and were almost punished when Wiese was called into action early in the 2nd half, making a smart stop at the feet of star striker Karim Benyamina to preserve his clean sheet. Then, amid a flurry of late substitutions that stifled the football on show if not the atmosphere in the stands, neuzugang Marcelo Moreno opened his account for the club, forcing in a loose ball having rounded the keeper 5 minutes from the end, before duly doubling his tally in the closing moments by drilling home at the near post after being put through by the impressive Philipp Bargfrede to make it 5-0 and round off a pleasing afternoon for the visitors.
17 Bundesliga sides made it into the 2nd round relatively unscathed, although Hertha Berlin were taken to extra time by Preußen Münster and Hamburg even required penalty kicks to see off Fortuna Düsseldorf after a thrilling 3-3 draw on Monday night. Hannover 96 did succumb, however, 3-1 to lowly Eintracht Trier, who registered the biggest shock of the tournament so far on Sunday.
Here is a full run-down of the results from the 1st Hauptrunde (main round) of the 2009/10 DFB-Pokal:
VfL Osnabrück - Hansa Rostock 2:1
SV Babelsberg 03 - Bayer Leverkusen 0:1
VfB Lübeck - FSV Mainz 05 2:1 a.e.t
FC Ingolstadt - FC Augsburg 1:2
Eintr. Braunschweig - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 0:1
SV Wehen Wiesbaden - VfL Wolfsburg 1:4
Dynamo Dresden - 1. FC Nürnberg 0:3
SG S. Großaspach - VfB Stuttgart 1:4
SC Paderborn - 1860 München 0:1
SpVgg Weiden - Borussia Dortmund 1:3
SV Elversberg - SC Freiburg 0:2
FSV Frankfurt - Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2
SpVgg Unterhaching - Arminia Bielefeld 0:3
Kickers Emden - 1. FC Köln 0:3
TSV G. Windeck - Schalke 04 0:4
1. FC Magdeburg - Energie Cottbus 1:3
Tennis Borussia Berlin - Karlsruher SC 0:2
Wacker Burghausen - Rot-Weiss Ahlen 5:6
Preußen Münster - Hertha BSC Berlin 1:3 a.e.t
1. FC Union Berlin - Werder Bremen 0:5
FC Oberneuland - 1899 Hoffenheim 0:2
FC 08 Villingen - FC St. Pauli 0:2 a.e.t
SC Conc. Hamburg - TuS Koblenz 0:4
VfB Speldorf - Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 0:3
Rot-Weiß Erfurt - MSV Duisburg 1:2
Wormatia Worms - SpVgg Greuther Fürth 0:1 a.e.t
Torgelower SV Greif - Alemannia Aachen 1:4
Eintracht Trier - Hannover 96 3:1
SpVgg Neckarelz - Bayern München 1:3
Kickers Offenbach - Eintracht Frankfurt 0:3
Sportfreunde Lotte - VfL Bochum 0:1
Fortuna Düsseldorf - Hamburger SV 3:3 Hamburg won 4-1 on pens
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