Kult & Punk: St Pauli win in Berlin (AGAIN!)

What a weekend, the boys are back in Zoes Bar, getting things sorted for the Halloween party tomorrow night. The band line up is fantastic, full of heavy metal, experimental indie music and so much more. Our favourites the Black Finger Nails are there plus the fantastic Merkel & SarKosy and the Enlargement Orchestra. They still managed to get to Berlin.

1. FC Union Berlin 0-2 FC St. Pauli

A second half turnaround handed St. Pauli maximum points as they recovered from a poor first half performance to see off a resilient Berlin side who saw their winning streak in front of home support come to abrupt end.

Union Berlin certainly started on the front foot, but playing to their strengths in transition it was St. Pauli who engineered the first chance in the match. Sebastian Schachten on the right found Fin Bartels breaking into the box, but from tight angle the midfielder dragged his shot too far across goal (8'). John Jairo Mosquera thought he had won a spot kick after being brought down by Markus Thorandt inside the box, but despite no penalty being given the striker had to go off injured (34').

Pauli pressure tells

His replacement Halil Savran almost made an immediate impact forcing a good save out of Philipp Tschauner with a rasping effort that looked to be heading for the bottom corner (40'), but the deadlocked remained intact going in at the break. Pauli pressed straight from the restart with Bartels setting up Max Kruse for the best chance of the match, but Jan Glinker did well to deny the youngster (47') before also keeping Dennis Naki's attempt from distance (54'). Berlin couldn't find a foothold in the second half and soon found themselves behind.

Kruse was brought down from behind on the edge of the box, but when play went on when Naki reacted fastest to curl the ball into the bottom corner (63'). Union went in search of an equaliser, but after Markus Karl's header was held by Tschauner (67') and Christian Stuff hit the post (70') it was left to Thorandt to extend Pauli's lead by bundling home Dennis Daube's corner from a few yards out (77'). The capital city side were left to rue missed chances, but a clinical performance from Pauli saw them move within a point of league leaders Fürth.