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In the game for third place in the Nations League, Germany won 2-0 against the Netherlands and thereby secured the last Olympic ticket.
- Netherlands against Germany 0:2 (0:0)
- DFB women win and solve Ticket for the Olympics in Paris.
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The German soccer players have qualified for the Summer Olympics. The DFB women secured their ticket to Paris on Wednesday evening with a hard-fought 2-0 win against the Netherlands. In the game for third place in the Nations League, in front of over 20,000 spectators in the Abe Lenstra Stadium in Heerenveen, Munich’s Klara Bühl (66th minute) scored the goals for the vice-European champions thanks to preparatory work from the outstanding Lena Oberdorf and Lea Schüller (78th). .
The Hrubesch team showed great improvement five days after the 1-2 defeat in France, the first missed Olympic opportunity, but had to tremble for a long time. Six months after the World Cup debacle in Australia, the DFB women ultimately prevented the next bitter setback. But there is already excitement surrounding the Olympic squad.
Netherlands against Germany 0:2 (0:0)
Lineup GermanyFrohms – Gwinn, Hendrich, Hegering, Linder – Nüsken, Oberdorf, Brand, Lohmann, Bühl – PoppGoals0:1 Bühl (66th minute), 0:2 Schüller (78th minute)
END: It is done! The German women’s national team wins the game for third place in the Nations League 2-0 in the Netherlands and thereby secures the last ticket for the Olympics in Paris. The DFB selection showed a concentrated performance throughout the entire 90 minutes and deservedly won the game in the end.
92. Minute: Suddenly the Netherlands have a great chance, but they can’t get the ball over the line out of the crowd. At the end there is a free kick for the German team.
90. Minute: Addition time is five minutes.
85. Minute: The German team does well and keeps the Dutch away from their own goal. Five minutes of regular game time remain.
82. Minute: Do the Dutch still have something to counter? It doesn’t look like it at the moment.
Netherlands against Germany: Schüller makes the preliminary decision
78th minute: GOOOOOOOOOOR for Germany! After a corner, it was Schüller who headed the ball to 0-2. The DFB women are very close to the dream of the Olympics!
77. Minute: Following the corner, Oberdorf takes a shot in the penalty area, but shoots over it.
76th minute: Almost the preliminary decision! But a Dutch defender prevented the score from making it 0-2 with her head.
74. MInute: The final phase is slowly beginning. Will the DFB women maintain their narrow lead over time?
69. Minute: Oberdorf throws himself into every duel and leads the way. A very strong performance from the 22-year-old so far.
Netherlands against Germany: Bühl puts the DFB team in the lead
66th minute: GOOOOOOOOOOR for Germany!!! Oberdorf to Linder, who crosses, Oberdorf wins the header duel and passes the ball to Bühl, who sinks it ice-cold!
64. Minute: van Domselaar and Schüller crash together, but the goalkeeper had the ball first, so there can be no penalty for Germany.
60. Minute: Now it’s Brand who penetrates the hosts’ penalty area, but is decisively disrupted when she finishes.
57. Minute: Both teams continue to give each other nothing. It seems that whoever scores the first goal tonight will win.
53. Minute: Now the Dutch women are back again, but the DFB women can clear for a corner, which ultimately achieves nothing. Dijkstra was injured during the action and had to be substituted.
49. Minute: The ball is in the Dutch goal, but it is offside. Schüller’s hit doesn’t count.
Netherlands against Germany: Nüsken close to the lead
48th minute: Oberdorf wins the ball on the wing, her cross takes a detour to Nüsken, who forces van Domselaar to make a brilliant save.
47. Minute: Horst Hrubesch made a substitution during the break. Schüller is in the game for Lohmann.
46. Minute: Let’s continue with the second half.
Halftime: Without night time, we go into break. It’s a duel of equals in which both teams fight and try to keep a high tempo. The most dangerous scene of the first half was Nüsken’s shot against the post. It remains exciting.
44. Minute: There’s Popp for the first time! But her header from a Gwinn cross ends up in the arms of van Domselaar.
39. Minute: After an opening pass, Gwinn is suddenly through. But she hesitates on the way to the goal and wants to make another hook and loses the ball in the process.
37. Minute: Yellow card for Hendrich after a foul on Beerensteyn.
34. Minute: The Netherlands clearly have the upper hand and the German team has to be careful not to let themselves be pushed too deep into their own half.
29. Minute: The DFB women are deep in this phase of the game and let the Dutch come. Beerensteyn asserts himself brilliantly from the outside, but Kathrin Hendrich follows up and clears for a corner.
25th minute: Post! Nüsken asserts herself energetically in the Dutch penalty area and shoots from the turn, her shot hitting the aluminum. That could have been the lead.
20. Minute: First shot by the German team, but Brand doesn’t get any pressure behind the ball, which poses no threat to goalkeeper van Domselaar.
17. Minute: The game in the last few minutes was characterized by many technical errors and ball losses on both sides. There is currently no orderly game structure.
The DFB women meet the Netherlands. © IMAGO/Holland women v Germany women
12. Minute: Dijkstra almost scores an own goal! After a free kick from the DFB team, the defender lets the ball slide over her head, but it misses the goal.
11. Minute: National coach Horst Hrubesch’s team is leading the game and has significantly more possession of the ball. On the other hand, the hosts play on the counterattack and wait for mistakes from the DFB team.
Netherlands against Germany: Frohms with uncertainty on the cross
7. Minute: The first cross from the Dutch and goalkeeper Merle Frohms appears uncertain. Kaptein then tries from 16 meters, but narrowly misses the target.
3. Minute: The DFB women took on every challenge in the first few minutes and showed their absolute will to win this game today.
1. Minute: Kick-off in Heerenveen. The German team initially plays in black and white from right to left.
Update from February 28th, 8:22 p.m: The tension is slowly rising. In about 20 minutes we leave Heerenveen. “There is a lot at stake for the players. The Olympics would be a great experience for the women’s national team,” said DFB President Bernd Neuendorf before the game.
Update from February 28th, 7:50 p.m: The lineup of the German women’s national team is here. National coach Horst Hrubesch has chosen the following personnel: Merle Frohms, Sarai Linder, Kathrin Hendrich, Marina Hegering, Lena Oberdorf, Sydney Lohmann, Alexandra Popp, Giulia Gwinn, Klara Bühl, Sjoeke Nüsken and Jule Brand. Compared to the 1:2 in France, Sydney Lohmann and Jule Brand start for Lea Schüller and Svenja Huth.
First report: Heerenveen – The game for third place in the Nations League is on. Germany is a guest in the Netherlands and wants to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris with a win. If they lost against their neighbors, their dream would have been shattered and national coach Horst Hrubesch and his team would only be spectators.
DFB women are fighting to take part in the Olympics
The DFB women missed their first chance to take part in the Olympics in the summer with a 1-2 defeat in the semi-finals of the Nations League against France.
Captain Alexandra Popp took her team to task before the German footballers’ important international match against the Netherlands in Heerenveen. “We know what it’s about. It’s not just about qualifying for the Olympics, it’s about saving your own face,” said the 32-year-old from VfL Wolfsburg at the final press conference.
Missing out on taking part in the summer games would be another serious setback for the German Football Association six months after the World Cup debacle in Australia with the elimination in the preliminary round. “To put it bluntly, we’re already used to it. Every game is fraught with pressure,” said Popp, who won Olympic gold in Rio in 2016, emphasizing: “We just want to put it on the record tomorrow, we have to put it on the record.”
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“You know that home games always feel nicer with many, many fans behind you. But it shouldn’t affect us,” said Germany’s “Footballer of the Year.” “We just have to learn that: how to deal with it when 20,000, 25,000 are against you.”
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