Two different halves
“Blue-eyed”: national coach Sauer after DFB victory
26.02.2025 – 8:59 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
First Pfui, then Hui. The German footballers show two faces against Austria. The national coach finds clear words.
After the clear 4: 1 victory of the German women’s national team in the National League duel with Austria, national coach Christian Wück was served. “We were not aggressive at all. We showed little passion on the pitch, showed little intensity on the square,” analyzed the 51-year-old’s weak appearance in Nuremberg on Tuesday evening. “We were very, very blue -eyed in the duels.”
A counterattack by the Austrians, who exposed the entire German defense, particularly highly opened Wück. Because Annabel Schasching (SC Freiburg) brought the DFB women behind through a goal in the 3. minute. “This goal, which would definitely have been avoidable, that annoys me now – and that annoys the team too.” In the future, its eleven will have to find funds to prevent such simple goal.
“We have to get Constance in. We have to get this security in the duels,” said Wück. The team has to concentrate on “The Basics”. “As many playback errors as in this game, as many lost duels as in the first half – you don’t have to worry about how far the EM goes.”
As far as possible, the DFB-Tross at the European Championship in Switzerland (July 2 to 27) should actually go, after all the Germans travel as vice. Hope therefore gives the second half against Austria when Wück saw “the other face of the team”. This performance should not call up his team only from the 30th or 40th minute, he said.
In the end, after a significant increase in performance and thanks to gates from Laura Freiegnung (39th minute), Linda Dallmann (55th), Giovanna Hoffmann (70th) and Vivien Endemann (82nd), in front of 14,394 spectators in Wück’s Franconian homeland, the sixth Victory in the sixth duel with the Austrians. For Hoffmann from RB Leipzig and Endemann from VfL Wolfsburg, it was the premier goals in the DFB jersey.