SG Wattenscheid 3 - 1 Queen's Park

Last updated : 24 July 2006 By Andyboy
The whole reason The Queen's came to Germany for this week's training was because of the relationship between the fans of both Queen's Park and SG Wattenscheid, and, the teams came together in a friendly match in Gunnigfeld on Saturday afternoon.

There was only one change to the side that beat VFB Gunningfeld on Wednesday night, Tony Quinn replaced Paul Paton and moved into midfield while Stuart Kettlewell dropped back into the right back berth.

Queen's had an extremely poor start when a cross from the right was spilled by David Crawford to the feet of Wattenscheid forward Kuntz who calmy knocked the ball into the empty net. DC though made up for it minutes later though when he somehow prevented Kuntz scoring a second making a brilliant one handed stop when the forward was one on one with goal and then Tony Quinn cleared Kuntz' rebound off the line.

Queen's did equalise on the half hour, when Mick Dunlop met Mark Ferry's cross at the back post and headed high past 09's keeper Weber. They still looked the inferior team though as Wattenscheid stroked the ball about well.

The second half was slightly better from the Spiders as they did knock the ball about well but Wattenscheid still looked the better side and took the lead again on 63 minutes when Stropp broke past the defence to fire past Crawford.

A third came five minutes from time when a simple through pass found Watt forward Barron who struck past DC. All was not lost though as Queen's Park fans played off against their German friends in a penalty shoot out on the Gunnigfeld pitch.

Xander Cowie took goal for Queen's Park and Watt's first choice keeper Weber went in for the 09 fans. The Queen's fans won 4-1. Graeme McDermott, Martin Kelly, John Drennan and QP mad editor Andy McNaught Jr. scored the succesful penalties. QPSA Travel convenor Martin Harvey missed for the QP fans.

And with that, both sets of fans and players partied the night away, some longer than others, before flying back to Scotland the next day, with a hard season ahead.

QUEEN'S PARK: Crawford, Kettlewell (Paton), Dunlop, Reilly (Agostini), Sinclair, Canning (Bowers), Trouten (Molloy), Quinn (Whelan), Carroll, Weatherston (Cairney), Ferry

GOALSCORER: Mick Dunlop

BOOKED: Alan Trouten

MAN OF THE MATCH: Tony Quinn, Strong at the heart of the midfield and made a fantastic goalline slide tackle to prevent Kuntz scoring a second.