Kult & Punk. Defeat to Frankfurt and back into the relegation zone

The boys were so unhappy after this game, they allowed a Frankfurter to write the report. What silly sausages they are (do you know, that was nearly a whole season to write in that gag -and still not funny). The boys consoled themselves with a game of table top space invaders and a darts match, against Dangerous Pierre and the Nancy Boys.  The visiting French team (you made your own jokes there - I know you did!) were soundly thrashed (there you go again). Back to the football, St Pauli are now firmly in relegation play-off spot, work needs to be done.

Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 FC St Pauli


Theofanis Gekas made a timely return to scoring form, bagging both goals for Frankfurt in their vital relegation dogfight with St. Pauli. The victory, Frankfurt's first of 2011, moves them up to 14th, two places and three points ahead of the vanquished guests, who remain third bottom on the back of their fifth straight loss.

The match did not begin promisingly for the home side, whose current lack of confidence was very much on show in an error-strewn opening phase. St. Pauli by contrast started well, Gerald Asamoah just failing to get on the end of a Max Kruse cross (6') and both he and Dennis Daube pulling saves out of home keeper Ralf Fährmann midway through the half. In the 33rd minute Alexander Meier tested Thomas Kessler with a long-range effort at the other end and a minute later, the St. Pauli keeper was squaring up to Gekas from the spot after Daube had hauled down the Greek frontman inside the area. Gekas won the resultant contest, bagging his 15th goal of the season and putting a welcome end to 706-minute personal drought.

Gekas back on song

Meier had another effort scrambled off, or possibly from just behind the line by Kessler five minutes before half-time and instead of being 2-0 up Frankfurt found themselves pegged back to 1-1 a couple of minutes later. Charles Takyi fired in a free kick that took a deflection off Georgios Tzavellas on its way past Fährmann and into the net.

Frankfurt's nervousness remained evident as the game progressed through a scrappy second half but their luck finally turned with just under quarter of an hour remaining. Gekas latched onto a long ball forward from Marco Russ, taking advantage of a slip by St. Pauli defender Markus Thorandt, and coolly dispatched his own second past Kessler to seal a valuable and perhaps confidence-enhancing win for Eintracht.