High-scoring training camp friendly for the BVB women

With temperatures around 30 degrees, the Borussia Dortmund women’s footballers have been working up a real sweat in their two daily training sessions. The second team even completed a climb on Friday morning, ascending 600 metres in altitude during a two-hour sports hike up the Nachtsöllberg mountain. The evening beforehand, they had successfully overcome their first friendly opponents of the training camp. Svenja Hörenbaum (2), Hilke Jeurissen (2), Elaine Eickmann, Michelle Hölter and Christin Schweißinger scored in the 7-0 win over SV Westendorf.

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Then, on Friday, the BVB Landesliga team faced Austrian Bundesliga outfit FC Wacker Innsbruck. In the shadow of the legendary Bergisel ski jump, the Black & Yellows set the tone but failed to take the lead. Instead, Nina Haaser scored at the other end to make it 1-0 to the home team (17).

It was a similar story after the break: BVB made the play, Wacker scored. Haaser again (52) and Stützenberger (56) upped the score to 3-0 for Innsbruck. “We were dominating the game but were not determined enough going forward and fell so far behind due to our own mistakes,” said head coach Thomas Sulewski.

The fact that the BVB women did eventually end up on the path to victory was down to a furious 15-minute spell. Marie Grothe reduced the deficit in the 59th minute and gave her team a new lease of life. A Marjana Naceva brace (69/74) either side of Ann-Katrin Lau’s equaliser in the 72nd minute turned the game on its head. “I’m of course very happy that I’m finally on the pitch again and we won the game,” said Naceva, who was making her first appearance for the first team.

A second from Ann-Katrin Lau (84) and Danelle Tan (88) completed the 6-3 victory in the closing stages. “We never gave in, kept going, were sharp and fired up, and deserved to turn a deficit into a victory,” said Sulewski in praise of his team.

BVB women: Schröer – Hentrich (Auffenberg, 46), Jung (Rechenbach, 64), Glänzer (Haslsteiner, 64), Klemann – Becker (Gomulka, 46) – Greulich (Lau, 64), Grothe (Rogge-Herper, 64), Bedarf (Kaul, 64), Kuhl (Naceva, 64) – Reinhardt (Tan, 64)

Goals: 1-0 Haaser (17), 2-0 Haaser (52), 3-0 Stützenberger (56), 3-1 Grothe (59), 3-2 Naceva (69), 3-3 Lau (72), 3-4 Naceva (74), 3-5 Lau (84), 3-6 Tan (88)

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