Women

End of the run

After a run of 13 consecutive league wins, the Lady-Wolves slipped to a 1-2 defeat to FC Bayern on Sunday.

The VfL ladies suffered a defeat in their final away game of the current season, with FC Bayern Munich narrowly beating the Green-Whites 1-2 (0-2) on Sunday afternoon. The home side took a two-goal lead through Dominika Skorvankova and Fridolina Rolfö (18’, 35’), but soon after the re-start, Zsanett Jakabfi pulled a goal back for the Lady-Wolves (48’), to make for a tense remainder of the tie. The defeat put an end to two impressive runs from VfL: After 13 league wins in succession, the Green-Whites again tasted defeat. In addition, coach Lerch’s side conceded their first goal in the Allianz Frauen-Bundesliga, having maintained ten clean-sheets. The season ends for Wolfsburg’s ladies next Sunday (June 3rd, 14:00 CEST), with a home game against 1. FC Köln. As to exactly how this season’s double-success is to be celebrated will be clarified over the next few days.

"The result is acceptable"

VfL head coach Stephan Lerch: The result is acceptable. We didn’t play at all well in the first-half. We often merely accompanied our opponents and made things easy for them in many situations. Bayern created a lot of chances and we found no solutions in our approach play. We battled back into the game in the second-half and had better order in our play. We defended well as a unit, got into the challenges and refused to throw in the towel. Pulling the goal back quickly gave us a boost. We believed we could snatch an equaliser and had a really good opening just before the finish – but Bayern’s counter-attacks were always dangerous too.

FC Bayern München: Zinsberger – Maier, Wenninger, Demann, Faißt – Behringer (64‘ Laudehr), Leupolz – Skorvankova, Däbritz, Rolfö (80‘ Lewandowski) – Rolser (90‘+1 Beerensteyn)

VfL Wolfsburg: Schult – Maritz (46‘ Dickenmann), Wedemeyer, Peter (76‘ Goeßling), Kerschowski – Neto, Baunach – Minde, Wullaert (46‘ Popp) – Jakabfi, Stolze

Goals: 1-0 Skorvankova (18’), 2-0 Rolfö (35’), 2-1 Jakabfi (48’)

Yellow cards:

Referee: Karoline Wacker (Marbach)

Attendance: 2,130 on Sunday afternoon in the stadium at the FC Bayern Campus