The MetroStars take on Tiger hunt

Dusseldorf - "We have definitely not played our best hockey, but there are no good or bad victories. When you win, everything is okay, "said a visibly relieved Harold circle after their victory 3:1-work MetroStars against Kassel. "The team wanted three points, as was seen - and she has done it."
Now we have to refill for the Dusseldorf. Sontagabend (18.30 clock), they must take drastic action against the Straubing Tigers in Regensburg, which had to move its home games, because a chaotic had placed in the "stadium at the Powder" in the summer fire and nearly burned down the old stadium. After the Huskies to a duel, it is the next underdog. "But the only spinner to think that one time just because mitnimmt the points. We respect every opponent, "demands full concentration circuit.
The concerns are justified. For what is handed in his troops against the Huskies, was poor. "We have not used our chances and Cassel made strong," criticized captain Daniel Kreutzer.
From a top team, DEG is miles away. Not only the paltry rate of recovery was irritated by the fans, even playfully, it did not fit really. District: "There were rookie mistakes here. As we have made the disc in the neutral zone at times - that does not even go. I actually thought that we have already moved on. "The coach angry:" This complicated game is nonsense. Only if we move straight to the gate of the enemy, we are dangerous. Both goals from Ryan Ramsay are incurred. He always goes where it burns. "The first goal dusted, the second deflection, the ex-Krefeld led DEG back with his two goals on track. "It's always nice to shoot two goals in a match. What matters is not who reinmacht those things, but that we shoot the goals. "
Manages the DEG also on Sunday for a three-, is the connection made to the top. Kreutzer: "This is our claim and we need to meet."

New: comeback in the derby?

Gelsenkirchen - It works like a madman for his comeback: While still in sneakers, but full of energy, Manuel Neuer came into the practice field Thursday afternoon and let Goalkeeping coach Oliver Reck shoot the balls around the ears.
New flew and dove as to the best of times, which has been sympathetically recorded by his father, Rolf.
The broken metatarsal, which is Schalke's goalkeeper in a friendly in Erkenschwick on 8 July had drawn, seems as good as cured.
New may indeed make no forecast of when he returns to the Schalke goal, but his goal is clear: The derby rivals Borussia Dortmund when he does not want to miss. On 13 September will be the 22-year-old in the Schalke goal, because this game is not for him a Bundesliga game like any other. As a young boy stood in New Dortmund in the corner and fired "at his" Schalke. And now his comeback in the Ruhr-cracker - that would be the greatest thing for New, who started working as a four year old at Schalke with football.
At the same time he wants and no time to lose in the battle for the succession of Jens Lehmann. Schalke manager Andreas Mueller: "Manuel has what it takes to be number one soon in the national team too." The international match in Liechtenstein but he must watch from the TV - including his rival Robert Enke in the DFB-gate.
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Cannabis field next to the substance abuse

Neuss - Unbelievable: Ironically on the campus of St. Alexius Hospital, treated in the drug also discovered EXPRESS on Thursday thanks to a tip near a cannabis field of substance abuse.
Officials of the Neuss Drugs Commissariat have around 100 cannabis plants, whose flowers are produced from the drug marijuana torn out, and taken immediately.
Police spokesman Willy Arnold: "It was a plantation, which was hidden in the clinic area behind a farm along a wall. The plants reach about two meters high on the drug investigation into the State Crime and then be destroyed. "
What makes the discovery especially piquant: The plantation was located not far from the drug treatment centers at St. Alexius Hospital, where addicts are treated in inpatient or outpatient basis.
An employee of the clinic said: "Maybe one wanted to provide for their own use or has meant, the place was very suspicious." So far could not be found out who harvest ripe and already heavily invested after smelling cannabis plantation. It is clear: From the plants would marijuana "can in no small amount" will be produced. The investigations are underway.
Vera Thaller, spokeswoman for the hospital to the Express: "We were very surprised that something like this exist in our hospital grounds. Of course we have assisted the police and are glad that the plants are destroyed. We knew, of course, none of it. The plants stand aside so that they could not recognize it so quickly. "
In recent years, in the Düsseldorf area and found primarily on the Lower growing cannabis plantations in sheds, garages or warehouses. In this they have been professionally bred with a complex and refined irradiation and irrigation system. The aim of breeders is to avoid imports, and to facilitate trade and to achieve higher drug concentrations (THC). The breeding of plants and the trade in Marihuna is punishable () up to five years in prison.

Schneider hopes to comeback in the Rhein-Derby

Leverkusen - Bayer afraid to eat. The uncertainty in the Leverkusen-based talent factory came to light late least open at the last home game against Frankfurt.
The young and highly praised the squad for weeks Werkself located in Sturzflug.Unerfahren, leadership and disoriented presented the team of coach Bruno Labbadia. And it seems no one in sight who could bring change. Or does it?
At 4:1-win against KFC Uerdingen Sechstligist Bernd Schneider was the first time in Bayer's first team squad. And he could now Labbadias secret weapon in the derby against 1 His FC Cologne!
"I feel good. Such games are important to me. The only way I can get me the necessary match practice, "says the 35-year-old, who on Friday with the reserves against 1 FC Kaiserslautern II in Cologne Südstadion plays. Schneider (missing since April 13, 2008 due to a herniated disc in neck) includes a Derby comeback no longer: "There's still some time," says the "white Brazilians."
On view from Wednesday met Labbadia and tailors to a longer conversation: "It is a pleasure that approaches the enthusiasm with which an older player in the cause," Labbadia praised the 35-year-olds. "As far as the Derby, but I would like not to disclose too much hope. Schneider will play on Friday and Tuesday. We then decide whether it can be used against Cologne. "