After the 1: 5 against the Netherlands, the national coach wants to quickly tick off the game. A win on Wednesday secures the European Championship semi-final.
Janneke Schopman brave the reset button. From the European Championship clap against the Netherlands, the national coach of Germany’s hockey women suspected, she will probably show them “nothing” in video analysis, “not the good things and not the bad things. We know what we have to do better,” assured Schopman after the 1: 5 against Olympic champion Netherlands at Magentasport and demanded: “We have to play smarter.”
After the first defeat in the second game, the selection of the German Hockey Association (DHB) on Wednesday (8:00 p.m./Magenta Sport) is about a final.
Only one victory guarantees the home tournament in Mönchengladbach. If France did not beat the Dutch defending champions before, a draw would also be enough.
Schopman tried not to over -judge the defensive, sometimes very weak performance. “Today there were too many individual mistakes, and every mistake was a goal,” analyzed the Dutch with a view to the first quarter when the big favorite had already taken the lead after 33 seconds and had added two more goals.
After all, after half -time Germany designed the game closer. In the end, one of four penalty corners helped Lena Micheel to honor. “It is good that this fertilized with a goal today. And at the same time there are four corners. Of course, more can come, we need that clearly against Ireland,” said the only German goal scorer.
The team now has to tick off the damper, after all, the duel with the Irishers will be “a completely different game,” added Micheel: “They are deeper. We have to be more patient again.”