Moved because of a super cup
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The reigning champion VFB Stuttgart only survived the first round of the DFB Cup in an eight-goals drama with extension and penalty shoot. Three months after the final triumph in Berlin, VFB tortured in one of the most exciting cup games of the past few years for a success of 8: 7 in penalty shots at the Eintracht Braunschweig second division club. After 90 minutes, there were 3: 3 (1: 1), after the end of the extension 4: 4.
In front of 20,865 fans in the Eintracht stadium, the stutch states had already left twice. The replacement Nick Woltemade only saved the favorite in the 89th minute with his goal at 3: 3. There, Sanousey Ba then made a goal (92.), but the bite, the race and the drop in braunschweig again struck by Christian Conteh (104th).
This fight only ended with the penalty shootout, which was difficult to beat in terms of excitement: the Alexander Nübel previously weak spoke two penalties of Johan Gomez and Max Marie, but after that, Ron-Thorben Hoffmann also held the attempt by Chema Andrés and Dan-Axel Zagadou beyond the goal. Nübel finally adorned to Lukas Frenkert, while Lorenz Assignon converted the penalty of 20 and had VFB applauded.
This trophy thriller had already started quickly, because in the 8th minute, Sven Köhler had given abroad at the head with a 30 -meter shot. In the 77th and 85th minute, Fabio Di Michele Sanchez reached a double strike at 2: 2 and 3: 2. The left at 22 had almost become a hero at Braunschweig, because in May, he had already succeeded in the relegation of relegation against 1. FC Saarbrücken.
But after 90 minutes, there was only one difference between the participant in the Europa League and the second division team: the 1-1 (12th) and the 1: 2 (60th) had reached the replacement of Woltemade Ermedin Demirovic. The national striker himself had only been substituted for 18 minutes before his goal at 3: 3. The 3: 4 introduced the Portuguese Tiago Tomás with a beautiful tower. The Stuttgart team had signed the attacker for a short time before the season for a million dual -dollars with VFL Wolfsburg. Harmony cannot follow.
The first AHA experience provoked the first AHA experience that the Bosnian international demirovic and not the very converted Woltemade played in the Sturm of Stuttgart. But coach Sebastian Hoeneß quickly indicated that this decision only served to protect and was not a sign of a new advertisement from FC Bayern Munich around Woltemade, 23. « Nick played the U21 European Championship, he arrived three weeks later and we are now entering an English week. We just have to take responsibility and tax the boys, » said Hoeneß in an « Ard » interview.
Woltemade only came into play in the 71st minute. He couldn’t like what he had already seen from the outside. All over the field, Braunschweig has stubbornly attacked Stuttgart. VFB took this almost all creatives.
In addition, there were several individual errors in the structure of the game – and especially in the position of goalkeeper. Already in the sixth minute, Nübel was attacked in the own field of Braunschweig Erencan Yardemci, did not hit the ball properly and caused a corner kick. Two minutes later, the national goalkeeper led a hard shot of 30 meters hard but not placed by the captain of Eintrach Köhler. Nübel also looked bad in 2: 3, the ball struck the torwartck. In the end, VFB celebrated the first victory of the season in the third competition match. But the Studtgarers still have enough work.
