Kult & Punk: We are top of the league, we are top of the league.

Kult & Punk travelled to watch the mighty St Pauli go top of the table. Unfortunately the weekend is now something of a blur to them, as a rather good guest ale appeared at Zoe's. Mix that with the death metal band, Dangerous Pierre and the Black Finger Nails, result mayhem.

FC St. Pauli moved at least temporarily to the top of the 2. Bundesliga standings on Friday evening on the back of a hard-earned 2-1 victory at VfL Bochum.

André Schubert's men took the points courtesy of a late strike from Max Kruse, to give themselves a haul of ten from their opening four matches. Friedhelm Funkel's Bochum continue to tread water in lower mid-table on four points.

Promising start by Bochum

Seven minutes after the match got under way in the pouring rain, the hosts took the lead. Paul Freier received the ball from Takashi Inui on the edge of the area and fed it through for Christoph Dabrowski to nick past St. Pauli keeper Philipp Tschauner. Quarter of an hour later Dabrowski had to take his leave of the contest, the home skipper having injured himself in a tackle on Fin Bartels.

Bochum were gradually fading after their bright opening, while the guests from Hamburg for their part seemed to be warming to the task. That was confirmed just over half an hour in, when St. Pauli pulled level. Kruse floated a ball in to the far post from the right and Bartels was allowed the time and space to bring it down and slip it past home custodian Andreas Luthe.

St. Pauli leave it late

VfL tried to reassert their authority early in the second half, but they were almost caught out in the 52nd minute when Bartels worked his way to the goal-line before cutting the ball back for Kruse, but Luthe dealt with the shot fairly comfortably. Bochum had a shout for a penalty turned down a couple of minutes later when Markus Thorandt appeared to impede Paul Freier inside the box. Going into the final 25 minutes, St. Pauli frontman Mahir Saglik had his first chance of note against his former club, but his miscued shot to a pass from the busy Kruse was again no problem for Luthe.

Then, with the clock ticking down, the visitors struck the decisive blow. In the 84th minute Florian Bruns found Kruse down the left and the attacking midfielder rifled the ball home, nutmegging Luthe along the way. Two minutes later, Freier cut across the path of St. Pauli left back Sebastian Schachten and went to ground. The referee ruled it a bookable foul and as Schachten had already seen yellow, the Hamburg side found themselves a man short for the closing minutes., but they held on for the points.