FC Schalke 04 managed to bag its eighth competitive match win in a row in the U19 Bundesliga West, but only won 3-2 (1:2) at Wuppertaler SV in injury time.
FC Schalke 04’s 3-2 win at Wuppertaler SV was anything but deserved for the visitors from Gelsenkirchen.
Norbert Elgert also agreed with this in the forecasting interview after the 90 minutes. “If anyone stands for clear and honest words, it’s me. The team that would have deserved to win here is WSV,” said the coach of Schalke’s U19s, not wanting to sugarcoat this late success at all.
“That bit of luck that Wuppertal lacked, we had on our side at the end of injury time. I am extremely disappointed with the performance of my players,” Elgert shook his head.
In fact, it was two penalties that brought the visitors back into the game in royal blue in the first place, and the home side also decimated themselves with a needless red card against Tim Hilligloh (58th).
And yet the Wuppertalers never gave up. Elgert also noted: “We knew that WSV is really good. We were prepared for everything. I’m all the more disappointed that my boys didn’t put it all into practice here. The basic virtues that are important in soccer, even in youth, were poorly developed this time with us,” the longtime Schalke coach spoke plainly. “That was simply a very disappointing performance. There will be intensive analyses this week to see next week against Viktoria Köln that we have learned from it. Of course, none of the players will be nailed together by me in the process,” Elgert joked, moving straight on to focus on the next task.
On the side of Wuppertaler SV, it was the second winless duel in the second game under Christian Britscho. Although it was a more than annoying defeat against the Knappen. “Of course, that was completely undeserved. We defended everything away well for 97 minutes and even had a huge chance to score the winning goal in stoppage time,” the ex-Wattenscheider was annoyed by the late setback in front of the home crowd at Uellendahl. “But we’re only taking the positive things with us. It was a really good game from us, both in terms of fighting and playing,” Britscho agreed with his counterpart. However, without countable yield.
Next week, WSV will travel to Leverkusen (Sunday, November 5, 11 a.m., Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion). With a similar performance as against Schalke, the Bergische are certainly capable of a surprise.
