Turbine avoids embarrassment within the DFB Cup towards FC Viktoria – Muricas News

At first all the things regarded just like the anticipated victory for the favorites on the Stadion Lichterfelde, however then Turbine instantly fell behind and was near defeat within the second spherical of the DFB-Pokal for a very long time. In the long run, the Potsdam Bundesliga crew was capable of beat FC Viktoria 7: 6 (4: 4, 4: 3, 3: 3, 0: 2) within the Berlin-Brandenburg derby. Which means final season’s finalist is one spherical forward, however solely very narrowly.

Months of main personnel adjustments lie behind the membership from Potsdam. With Sebastian Middeke, a brand new coach was employed in the summertime, membership president Rolf Kutzmutz resigned firstly of June and there are hardly any gamers left from final season’s squad. Virtually all prime performers, together with Selina Cerci, Sara Agrez and Merle Barth, left the membership. With the beginning of the aggressive sport, Middeke’s crew wished to show that that they had discovered one another after the large upheaval and began the season with a cup win earlier than the Bundesliga kicks off subsequent Sunday away in Bremen.

After Turbine led 2-0 at half-time with objectives from Mai Kyokawa (9′) and Sophie Weidauer (24′), the tide turned within the second half. Inside twenty minutes, Viktoria turned the sport round with objectives from Hannah Behrend (53′), former Bundesliga participant Aylin Yaren (71′) and Louise Trapp (74′) and was 3-2 up till three minutes earlier than the tip. However then substitute Amber Barrett equalized and saved the Potsdam girls in further time.

After simply three minutes into further time, it was once more the regional league crew who took the lead because of Louise Trapp’s second objective. However Turbine was capable of equalize once more, this time by means of Sophie Weidauer, who additionally put collectively a brace and continued the nice performances of final season. After 120 minutes it was over in Lichterfelde and the choice was to be made on penalties.

There, the Bundesliga membership lastly confirmed higher nerves and was in the end capable of have a good time victory within the first aggressive sport of the season. Because of the drop in efficiency after the primary 45 minutes, there are nonetheless some query marks over the Potsdam membership earlier than the beginning of the Bundesliga in every week. (tsp)

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