The DFB women have made a successful start to their World Cup qualification. While a returning player was completely convincing, a newcomer also made a big impression. The individual criticism.
National coach Christian Wück couldn’t have imagined a much better start to the World Cup qualification with the DFB women. Germany beat Slovenia 5-0 at the start. In the Dresden stadium, the 19,169 fans chanted “Oh, how beautiful that is.”
Early on, Vivien Endemann (6th minute) and Elisa Senß (12th) brought the lead and with it calm to the German game. Captain Giulia Gwinn also saw it this way on ARD after the game: “We started very well in both halves and brought in a lot of energy.”
At the same time, she also emphasized that some uncleanliness would have to be eliminated in the future. By this she could have meant, among other things, the exploitation of chances, because even more goals could have followed in the first half alone. But Shekiera Martinez (17th) and again Endemann (23rd) missed top-class chances.
In the second round the picture didn’t change at all. Linda Dallmann (48th) and Larissa Mühlhaus (52nd) increased the result. It was a special evening for Mühlhaus: The Hamburg native came on as a substitute at halftime, celebrated her debut with the national team and needed just seven minutes to score her first goal.
Lea Schüller scored her 55th international goal in her first international match after moving from FC Bayern to Manchester United and made the final score 5-0 (71st). How the striker performed in the t-online individual review and why Camilla Küver showed it to Mario Basler, who recently emphasized again that football is “not a women’s sport” and “When do you see a tackle from a lady?”, read here or in the photo show above.
The DFB women continue against Norway in Stavanger on Saturday (from 6 p.m. in the t-online live ticker). The third opponent on the way to the World Cup is Austria. Only the first team in the group qualifies directly for the tournament – that’s exactly what national coach Wück’s team is aiming for.
