Königsblauen advance with 4-1 victory over Carl Zeiss Jena
By: Porter | January 27th, 2009
Schalke returned from the winter break with a fine start, defeating Carl Zeiss Jena 4-1 in the DFB Pokal and now advances to the quarter-final. Although victorious, it was not an easy win with the home side starting the better of the two and the match was also littered with bad tempers and two red-cards, including Gerald Asamoah’s expulsion with fifteen minutes remaining.
Jefferson Farfán scored the lone goal before the break from a perfect pass from Ivan Rakitić, giving Schalke the 1-0 lead nineteen minutes in but as expected Jena didn’t give up and fought back. The home side continued to press to level and came close just pass the half hour mark but Farfán doubled the margin five minutes past the hour. The home side brought one goal back only two minutes later with Maltese international André Schembri scoring. The fast paced second half continued and after a foul, Ivan Rakitić returned two goal margin with a curling free kick from twenty meters at the seventy-first minute. The match took a wrong turn when Gerald Asamoah was red-carded after a challenge to René Eckardt with fifteen minutes remaining. Kevin Kurányi entered the match a few minutes later and two minutes into added time he found the goal with the final score 4-1.
Category: Schalke Team News
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