From BZ/dpa
The upcoming game has the character of a final for Turbine Potsdam. But even with a win against Cologne, the starting position in the fight for relegation remains pretty hopeless.
In the women’s Bundesliga club Turbine Potsdam, the expected defeat against Wolfsburg has quickly become a minor matter – the focus is on the coming games with the bottom of the table.
The Wolfsburg Lena Lattwein sets. prevailed against Turbine’s Darya Rajaee Photo: picture alliance
“It’s clear to everyone that Tuesday’s game is more important than today’s,” said the Turbine goalkeeper Anna Wellman after the 5-0 defeat at doubles winners VfL Wolfsburg and before the home game against 1. FC Köln (7:00 p.m.).
“I think we can take a lot of positive things with us. The mentality, the attitude with which we tackled the duels today speaks for itself. We want to approach Cologne in the same way,” said Wellmann.
Turbine’s Pauline Deutsch is injured and treated on the sidelines Photo: picture alliance
The team, which was newly formed during the winter break and has only one point after 14 games, fought bravely against the big favorites for more than an hour and only conceded the goal from former Turbine player Felicitas Rauch (27th minute). Only in the final phase did the league leaders show their quality and came through Lena Lattwein (67th), Alexandra Popp (72nd and 90th + 1) and Dominique Jansen (86th) to the befitting success.
partly underground”
“This top team showed us very clearly today what doesn’t work for us at all. It starts in the passing game. Our first contact was partly underground,” said assistant coach Dirk Heinrichs, who forms a coaching duo with the new coach Marco Gebhardt. “
Against table tenth 1. FC Köln, who with eleven points are the first non-relegation zone, a win on Tuesday is therefore necessary to keep at least a glimmer of hope for staying up in the league. Because after the catch-up game against the women from the cathedral city, SV Meppen, SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen are three other teams at risk of relegation in the Karl Liebknecht Stadium, but even nine points from three games would not be enough to avert relegation .
And even with a win against Cologne, one or two points from the games at the top teams SC Freiburg, in Hoffenheim, against Eintracht Frankfurt or at Bayern Munich would probably have to be scored, since the teams in front of Turbine will also score points. “We have to move on now. We saw a few good things in the first half,” said Heinrichs. “The next game is what counts for us and we have to accept that again.”