Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Uerdingen 13th with 48 points, Carl Zeiss Jena 20th with 23, 25 apart. Uerdingen ranked just 19th in the league on five-round form despite their 13th table position. Per game in the league, Carl Zeiss Jena were scoring 1.05 and conceding 2.24, Uerdingen 1.05 and 1.42, against a competition average of 1.5 goals per team per game.
8 games without a win framed Carl Zeiss Jena's arrival. Over the last five, Carl Zeiss Jena had taken 1 of 15 points to Uerdingen's 8.
The venue was Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld in Jena, with room for 12,990 spectators. C. Günsch officiated: 38 games logged, averaging 1.0 yellow cards each. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.