Kult & Punk: On the Boll, St Pauli, the opening weekend starts with victory.

Kult & Punk are back with a double celebration, no make that a triple. First the erection of the brand new darts board in Zoe's Bar, a victory on the opening day of the season and Football is back.

FC St. Pauli  2   FC Ingolstadt  0

FC St. Pauli began life back in the second flight with a solid home-from-home victory over FC Ingolstadt. Two second-half goals from Fabian Boll earned coach Andre Schubert's men the points in an entertaining contest against their Bavarian visitors


St. Pauli kicked off their home programme for 2011-12 at the Stadion an der Lohnmühle in Lübeck, serving out the one-match ban from their beloved Millerntor imposed after a cup of beer was thrown onto the pitch in the game against Schalke last April.

Evenly-balanced first half

With three new signings included in Schubert's starting line-up - keeper Philipp Schauner, central defender Lasse Sobiech and right back Sebastian Schachten - the nominal hosts carved out the first opportunity of note in the tenth minute, Charles Takyi's control letting him down in a promising breakaway situation. At the other end, a shot from Moritz Hartmann hit the outside of the net a minute later.

St. Pauli upped the pressure in the phase that followed, but a couple of half-chances from distance aside they were finding it hard to break down a compact Ingolstadt defence. By the half-hour mark the balance of the contest had pretty much evened out and the first half was drifting towards a fairly uneventful conclusion when FCI right back Andreas Görlitz let loose a powerful shot from some 18 metres out, which had debutant goalie Tschauner stretching to turn round the post.

Boll at the double

Ingolstadt picked up where they had left off right at the start of the second 45, Caiuby running at pace towards the St. Pauli area before pulling another fine save out of Tschauner. St. Pauli's response was not long in coming though. In the 51st minute, Fabian Boll teed up a free kick, having himself been hauled down a couple of metres outside the box, and drilled it straight and true into the corner past Ingolstadt keeper Sascha Kirschstein.

The stage was set for a period of end-to-end action, St. Pauli having a couple of pots on goal before Leonhard Haas set up Stefan Leitl on the break, only for the striker to see his close-range effort foiled by the impressive Tschauner (62'). St. Pauli survived a goalmouth scramble soon after as Ingolstadt pressed, and in the 69th minute they struck again. A cross into the middle was cleared by Marino Biliskov straight to the feet of Boll, who clinically fired his own second into the far corner.

Points in the bag

To their credit, Ingolstadt continued to push for the goal that would at least give them a foothold back in the contest, but St. Pauli were giving nothing away in this one and over the piece finished worthy winners, having set the tone for long stretches of the match.