Match Report
The table gap was wide: 24 points between Viktoria Köln (1st, 67 pts) and Wattenscheid 09 (11th, 43 pts). Wattenscheid 09's recent output outran their position: 3rd on form over five rounds, 11th in the table. Per game in the league, Wattenscheid 09 were scoring 1.29 and conceding 1.29, Viktoria Köln 1.82 and 0.88, against a competition average of 1.4 goals per team per game.
The last-five ledger: Wattenscheid 09 3/15, Viktoria Köln 10/15.
The venue was Sportanlage Gesamtschule Ückendorf in Gelsenkirchen, with room for 4,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 3-0.