Match Report
45 points separated the sides: Paloma 4th on 70, Alsterbrüder 17th on 25. Alsterbrüder ranked 13th in the league on five-round form, well above their 17th table position. Per game in the league, Alsterbrüder were scoring 1.09 and conceding 2.65, Paloma 2.47 and 1.59, against a competition average of 2.08 goals per team per game.
Defeat had followed defeat for Alsterbrüder — three in succession, having scored in 6 consecutive games.
The venue was Kunstrasenplatz Walter-Felsenstein in Berlin, with room for 15,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Paloma led 2-0 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 1-4.