On the way to Fortuna’s greatest international success, reaching the final in the European Cup Winners’ Cup, it was necessary to eliminate the uncomfortable Swiss team from Servette Geneva. The Düsseldorfer went into this quarter-final first leg with the mortgage of a 0: 5 swatter at the previous Bundesliga appearance in Stuttgart. But it quickly became apparent that Servette had, so to speak, parked the bus in front of his gate. This was indicated by the fact that Fortuna keeper Jörg Daniel first saw a ball in the 36th minute.
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This is how the encounter turned out to be a game on a goal, but as hard as the Flingern tried, the redeeming opening goal simply did not want to fall. If it didn’t work out of the game, the relief was great when the Polish referee Jarguz decided on a penalty kick in the 84th minute. Equipped with terrific optimism, the stadium management changed the interim result on the scoreboard to the seemingly new score of 1-0 for Fortuna.
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What should go wrong too? In Gerd “Zimbo” Zimmermann, there was finally a man who could hammer the leather and the goalkeeper into square shapes from a standing start. But not on this rainy evening in Stockum. Zimmermann failed on his nerves, and even the last chance for a victorious evening had fizzled out.
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