One of the few remaining Wolfsburg women in the national team: Jule Brand (left) in the duel with Scotland’s Leah Eddie.
Photo: dpa/Andrew Milligan
The times are not so long ago, when VfL Wolfsburg served as the most important supplier for the German national women’s team. Ten VfL players alone were still part of the squad at the 2023 World Cup, eight stood in the last group game against South Korea in the starting eleven when the embarrassment of Brisbane manifested the low point of the younger history. Since then, not only German women’s football has been fighting against loss of meaning. Just as the Autobauer Volkswagen is against global crises, the DFB women are also trying to assert themselves against the growing competition.
The German footballers in the Autostadt have been going on since the weekend, where the Nation League second leg against Scotland is increasing on Tuesday. With goalkeeper Almuth Schult, a special personality is said to be said goodbye when the titles still went to the factory club from Lower Saxony as on the assembly line. Now it could be good that with Janina Minge and Jule Brand, two “wolves” start in the penultimate home game in front of the European Championship in Switzerland in summer.
“We look forward to Wolfsburg. I wouldn’t mind if we won 4-0 again. Because that would mean that we can show a stable performance twice in a row, «said national coach Christian Wück. The predominantly young audience should cheer as many goals as possible, although the first leg in Dundee did not get as convincingly as the result suggested. Wück did not want to complain too much afterwards: »We really wanted to play too zero. It was not all gold that shines yet, but it was already at a high level. ”The outbreak of anger against an opponent that is only combative, which was reasonably equally equal to the opponent, revealed that the 51-year-old was not at all liked the loss of control in certain phases of the first half.
Giulia Gwinn also prefers the positive. »The past games have been too much of one or two goals. We had a lot of steam forward, but it is not everything perfect. ”The captain of FC Bayern wanted to have seen an” important step towards the EM “. After all, the first cornerstones crystallize. Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger underlined in Tannadice Park that the 34-year-old is rightly number one.
In front of her, defender Sophia Kleinhernen collected the first plus points under Wück. When the defensive is so thinned out, the 24-year-old from Eintracht Frankfurt gives a reliable solution. »The art is that you are there when you are needed. For me it was a moment that meant a lot to me. ”And as long as Lena Oberdorf still completes her rehab, Elisa Sensß seems to be another Frankfurter of the best replacement as a six. The extremely busy 27-year-old was happy about her geriatric shot for the early 1-0 (2nd). “Of course it is mega that he goes in this way.”
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A special praise from the national coach for many successful switching campaigns also home to Linda Dallmann, who as a playmaker became the linchpin. In this form, the 30-year-old from FC Bayern belongs to the regular occupation. It’s a good thing that the offspring were not left out on a slippery lawn. Franziska Kett, who has been acting as a top talent in Munich for a long time, made a decent debut as a left -back. “I was very nervous, my first game in the starting eleven. I can build on it, «said the 20-year-old. Now even her parents would come to Wolfsburg for the next game. “I definitely go full throttle again.”
The same applies to Cora Zicai, who scored her second goal in her third international match with a beautiful Schlenzer. Your creativity alone should be rewarded with an EM nomination. I’m happy about every minute of the game, »said the 20-year-old, who was still playing at SC Freiburg, on Sunday. Regarding the rumors about a change in summer to VfL Wolfsburg, she only explained: «There is a lot to be said. I am very grateful to the Freiburg association for a lot of trust. I’m thinking about what the next step can be. » Maybe switch to the city that was once the most important supplier of the national team?