In the fight for group victory, the DFB women experience a very bitter evening. The team is frustration, but also optimism of purpose.
It was the chance of the group victory, but it was a raven-black evening: In the last group game of the European Championship, the German national team had to take a bitter 1: 4 defeat against Sweden. The group victory was gone and the self -confidence of the team took considerable damage. France is now expected to wait in the quarter -finals. A real top nation.
In the analysis of the bitter bankruptcy, the players Christian Wück practiced in purpose optimism. Above all, they emphasized the strong initial phase in which Germany took the lead through Jule Brand in the seventh minute and had played out a few more chances, but they remained unused. A fact that was punished by the Swedes. Stina Blackstenius (12th minute) and Smilla Holmberg (34th) turned the game. After the 3: 1 by Fridolina Rolfö, which was caused by a meter punished by Carlotta Wamser and was also created with a smooth red card, the game was then ran.
“We started very, very well started, then make it 1-0,” analyzed Klara Bühl. “We were completely in there, the better team, had a few more chances and at the level it is crucial to make them,” continued the wing player. The fact that the exploitation of opportunities must be improved is the greatest apprenticeship from the game.
“We give the game in 10-15 minutes. This is incredibly bitter, but the mistakes are punished quickly at the level,” criticized Bühl, but also found praise for the second half: “That is why it was a stark in the end. I was incredibly proud of the team that we fought. So the Bayern player. Now it is important to analyze the game and to look forward, with a full focus on the quarter -finals.
National coach Wück put in a similar notch: “We came into play well, make it 1-0 and unfortunately miss it,” was his analysis. “Then you saw the quality of the Swedes, we had no more access and at the latest with the red card for Carlotta the game was then done for us,” continued the national coach.
He described the defensive behavior of his team’s defensive behavior in phases as “a series of behaviors that were not good” and made it clear: “We have to work on that, we know that.” And further: “The goal was not to get four goals today. That should be clear to everyone.” Then he got his attitude to the game in a nutshell: “We are now on the ground, but we will get up again.”
Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger wanted to concentrate on the second half, in which the DFB team largely defended well and only allowed one goal. “We gave our last shirt. Of course, the Swedes left a little, but also in the game you saw, especially in the second half, that we can play football really well too,” she said. That gives courage for the next games. “We are still on, that’s the main thing,” said Berger.