Schalke to visit Mainz 05 in DFB Cup quarter-final
02.02.2009
Schalke will face former players Tim Hoogland and Niko Bungert when they travel to second-division outfit Mainz 05 in the quarter-final of the DFB Cup at the beginning of March. This is the outcome of the draw made by Women's World Cup winner Nadine Angerer on Sunday.
"It's a winnable tie, but no one should underestimate it. Mainz 05 are a team with very good qualities. Qualities that make them tough cup opposition for any Bundesliga side", said Schalke head coach Fred Rutten, who will subject Mainz to close scrutiny in the coming month. "Our aim is to reach the final in Berlin, after all", he explained. The tie will take place on Tuesday, 3 March or Wednesday, 4 March.
The two sides have met twice in the cup to date, both times in Mainz. In the 1982/83 season the Royal Blues won 6-3 after extra-time in a second-round tie. For much of the game it did not look as if the extra half-hour would be necessary, as Siegfried Held's team led 2-0 after goals from Mathias Schipper on 19 and Hubert Clute-Simon four minutes later. But Otto and Klasen restored parity for the home side in the second half.
Things got worse for the Royal Blues in the first period of extra-time when an own goal by Peter Stichler put the then third-division side 3-2 ahead. But Schalke, driven forward by substitute Norbert Janzon, managed to turn things round. An own goal by Orf put them back on level terms on 106. And just a minute later Janzon made it 4-3. A crowd of around 20,000 then saw Schipper and Ilyas Tüfekci take the score to 6-3.
In the first round of the competition on 30 August 1986 there was to be no happy end, however. In front of 5,500 spectators Michael Schumacher got the only goal of the game after just eight minutes, the same Schumacher, incidentally, whose goal to draw Bayer Uerdingen level at 1-1 in the second leg of the Bundesliga play-off in 1983 had condemned Schalke to relegation for the second time in their history.
