Florian Stritzel, goalkeeper of SV Wehen Wiesbaden, shows a strong performance in the cup game and ensures an inglorious premiere by Harry Kane. The goalkeeper prepared for the game against Bayern in a special way.
Florian Stritzel can write something out of the flag that has not yet been succeeded in a goalkeeper in Germany: The keeper of SV Wehen Wiesbaden held a penalty from Harry Kane in the cup game against Bayern Munich (2: 3) on Wednesday evening. The world-class striker had always met the point in the jersey of the German record champion in competitive games.
“That is no coincidence,” said Stritzel in the mixed zone about his overall strong performance in the game of the third division against the German champion. “I’ve tried to manifest it for the past few weeks and a half.” He wrote down beliefs, according to the 31-year-old. “I tried to live in this feeling, to have played a good game. And that got everything.”
Stritzel before Bayern play “Almost esoteric”
Stritzel finally explained what he had done: “I actually wrote down the sentence three times in the morning that I would have played a good game. Then six times at noon. And in the evening it was still nine times – and read it out loud and get it into the feeling.” He did that every day – with success. “This is almost esoteric,” he admitted himself. “I am a bit receptive to that.”
With his parades, Stritzel kept his team in the game before the highlight followed in the 76th minute: the keeper dived at the penalty of Kane and held – just like the margin. The goalkeeper admitted that he analyzed and trained with goalkeeper coach Mo Amsif Kanes. In addition to the esotericism, a bit of sporting exercise was also there.
Colleagues praise, Stritzel struggled
After the game, “Strille”, as he is called in the team, received a lot of praise from his teammates. “Of course we have to talk about strille,” said Ryan Johansson, even before he was asked about his colleague. “He just kept great.” Sascha Mockenhaupt also saw it as follows: “I am glad that you can rely on strille. You need an outstanding goalkeeper on such a day.”
In the end, however, Stritzel himself struggled with himself: In the 2: 3 through Kane in added time, he seemed undecided for a moment, so the Bayern striker was able to head and decide the game in favor of the big favorite. “You just have to act a little differently,” he admitted. “This is a bit of the drop of bitterness. Otherwise everything was fine.” Just as the SVWW keeper had previously manifested for days.
