TSG Hoffenheim won an important victory in the fight for the Champions League places against SC Freiburg. However, both teams struggled with converting their chances.
A quick double strike gave the TSG Hoffenheim footballers an important victory at SC Freiburg. Wielle Douma (6th) and Janna Grimm (10th) scored to make it 2-1 for the Kraichgauer women. Lisa Kolb (15th) was only able to score the next goal. This means that Hoffenheim (38 points, fourth place) remains on the heels of Eintracht Frankfurt in the fight for the Champions League places – but remains four points behind. Freiburg is stuck in the middle of the table with 30 points.
Hoffenheim’s double strike shocks SC Freiburg
In an eventful game, Hoffenheim got off to a much better start. Wielle Douma (6th) and Janna Grimm (10th) scored to give Hoffenheim an early lead. In this phase, the Freiburg women seemed hopelessly overwhelmed by the Kraichgau women’s aggressive attacking pressure. And it was Freiburg’s goalkeeper Rebecca Adamczyk who kept coach Edmond Kapllani’s team in the game with, among other things, a strong save against Jill Janssens (12th).
But suddenly Hoffenheim also made hair-raising mistakes in building up the game. Jill Janssens opened the scoring for Freiburg with a careless cross pass into her own penalty area. Sophie Nachtigall’s first attempt failed against Laura Dick, but Lisa Kolb pushed the ball over the line (15th).
Freiburg Obvious force comes too late
An open game developed in which Freiburg pushed for an equalizer and Hoffenheim countered again and again. Because Adamczyk However, she parried again against Janssens (23rd), the 22-year-old Belgian ‘only’ hit the crossbar of her own goal with another ricochet in the penalty area (32nd) and Freiburg’s Leela Egli was denied by goalkeeper Dick and then defender Lisa Doorn in her double chance (43rd), the score remained 1:2 at half-time.
After the break, the Freiburg women came out of the locker room with a lot of offensive urge. Hoffenheim remained the team with the larger share of the game. But as soon as Freiburg had the ball, they went straight towards the Hoffenheim goal. Kolb almost rewarded herself with her second goal after a through pass from Egli, but her lob landed in the arms of the Hoffenheim keeper (53′). There would have been a lot more in it. After that the game petered out. There was also no longer any danger of scoring. This is how Hoffenheim saved their victory over time.
