FC Schalke 04 secured their eighth straight win in the U19 Bundesliga West, but only managed to beat Wuppertal SV 3:2 (1:2) after extra time.

Yet FC Schalke 04’s 3-2 victory at Wuppertaler SV was anything but deserved for the visitors from Gelsenkirchen.

Norbert Elgert agreed with this assessment in the post-match discussion after the 90 minutes. “If anyone stands for clear and honest words, it’s me. The team that deserved to win here is WSV,” said the coach of the Schalke U19s, who had no intention of glossing over this late success.

“That bit of luck that Wuppertal lacked was on our side at the end of extra time. I’m extremely disappointed with my players’ performance,” Elgert shook his head.

Indeed, it was two penalties that got the visitors in royal blue back into the game in the first place, and the home side also decimated themselves with an unnecessary red card against Tim Hilligloh (58′).

And yet Wuppertal never gave up. Elgert also noted this: “We knew that WSV is really good. We were prepared for anything. I’m all the more disappointed that my boys didn’t implement any of this. The basic virtues that are important in football, even at youth level, were poorly developed by us this time,” the long-standing Schalke coach spoke frankly. “It was a very disappointing performance. We will be doing some intensive analysis this week to make sure we learn from it for the game against Viktoria Cologne next week. Of course, none of the players will be nailed to the cross by me,” joked Elgert, immediately setting the focus on the next task.

On the Wuppertal SV side, it was the second game without a win in the second game under Christian Britscho. Although it was a more than annoying defeat against the miners. “Of course we didn’t deserve that at all. We defended well for 97 minutes and even had a great chance to score the winning goal in injury time,” said the former Wattenscheid player, annoyed about the late setback in front of his home crowd at the Uellendahl. ”But we’ll only take the positive things with us. We played really well, both defensively and offensively,” said Britscho, agreeing with his counterpart. However, without a goal.

Next week, the WSV will travel to Leverkusen (Sunday, November 5, 11 a.m., Ulrich-Haberland Stadium). With a similar performance to that against Schalke, the team from the Bergisch region could well pull off an upset.