Kult & Punk: St Pauli run out of energy.

The boys, with feet back on terra firma, are with us in the flesh once more. Not, I grant you, a pleasant sight. They dispatched young Grunter to watch St Pauli continue their poor start to the campaign. Kult & Punk had zoes Bar official business to attend too. The full list of gigs is almost complete and the most important part of all, is the Dart League is due to start.

So here is young Grunters first match report -

Energie Cottbus 2-0 FC St. Pauli

Cottbus showed exactly how they had made an unbeaten start to the season with a series of swift attacks, culminating in the first big opportunity of the game in the 13th minute when Daniel Adlung's shot hit the crossbar and fell out to Nicolas Farina, who lifted the ball over the bar as he fell backwards. It remained one-way traffic and, within a minute, Adler was through on goal again, but he placed his shot wide of the post. With only St. Pauli goalkeeper Philipp Tschauner to beat, Farina missed the home side's next big chance in the 17th minute before they finally made the breakthrough they deserved in the 21st minute when Stieperman's shot deflected into the far corner. Boubacar Sanogo wasted the chance to double Cottbus' lead when he did the hard work in stealing the ball off Tscharner, but shot into the side-netting on the half-hour mark.

It was a similar story in the second half, with Cottbus continuing to demonstrate their superiority. They went close to a second in the 48th minute, but Farina took too long getting the ball under control at the far post and the chance went begging. Ivica Banovic took matters into his own hands to give Cottbus a two-goal cushion in the 66th minute. He picked up possession outside the St. Pauli penalty area and shifted the ball onto his left foot before shooting low and in off the base of the right-hand upright. Konstantin Engel made a fine goalline clearance to deny Mahir Saglik with Pauli's first chance of the match in the 68th minute, but the Cottbus goal never came under threat again as Rudi Bommer's men moved on to seven points from their first three games of the season, leaving Pauli with just two.