Date: 02-03-1977
Stage: 1/4 final
Place: MOENCHENGLADBACH
Running time: 97 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 1080 50fps (9)
Commentary: german
My rating: ***
Notes: Vogts, Bonhof, Stielke, Simonsen, Cools, Vandereycken
MATCH SUMMARY
Wednesday, 2 March 1977 – 20:15
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 65,000
Weather: dry
BORUSSIA M.
Wolfgang Kneib
Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp
Horst Wohlers
Hans Klinkhammer
Berti Vogts
Rainer Bonhof
Christian Kulik
Uli Stielike
Herbert Wimmer
Karl Del’Haye
Allan Simonsen
Coach: Udo Lattek
BRUGGE
Birger Jensen
Georges Leekens
Jos Volders
Fons Bastijns
Julien Cools
Eduard Krieger
René Vandereycken
Paul Courant
Roger Davies
Dirk Hinderyckx
Ulrik Le Fevre
Coach: Ernst Happel
?′ ↓Ulrik Le Fevre ↑Dirk Sanders
Eduard Krieger
Roger Davies
Referee: Georges Konrath (FRA)
Goals: 23′ Cools (BRU), 39′ Courant (BRU), 43′ Kulik (BM), 63′ Simonsen (BM)
Match overview
Club Brugge shocked the home crowd in Düsseldorf by scoring twice in the first half, but Borussia Mönchengladbach fought back with goals from Kulik and Simonsen to earn a 2–2 draw in the first leg of the European Cup quarter-finals.
Both teams displayed attacking football, with the German side recovering well after going down 0–2 within 40 minutes. The tie remained open heading into the second leg in Belgium.
Julien Cools and Paul Courant were instrumental for Brugge, while Simonsen once again proved decisive for Borussia.
Trivia
Borussia Mönchengladbach reached the final of the European Cup in this season, eventually losing to Liverpool. The 2–2 draw with Club Brugge in the first leg proved decisive, as they advanced after a 1–0 win in the second leg in Belgium.
