“That’s very gross”
Wolfsburg win the cup semi-finals 9-0
March 30, 2024, 3:36 p.m
The VfL Wolfsburg footballers can continue to dream of their tenth DFB Cup triumph in a row. Coach Tommy Stroot’s team outclassed SGS Essen in the semi-finals. The Wolfsburg women remain unbeaten in their 49th cup game in a row across the season.
With a goal festival, defending champions VfL Wolfsburg stormed into the women’s DFB Cup final for the tenth time in a row. The record winners defeated outsiders SGS Essen 9-0 (3-0) in the semifinals and have now been unbeaten in the favorite competition for 49 games. Champions Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt will determine the opponent for the final on May 9th on Easter Sunday (3:45 p.m./ARD and Sky).
“That’s very blatant,” said VfL captain Svenja Huth on Sky: “We wanted to show a reaction on the pitch today, that’s what we did.” Coach Tommy Stroot was also very satisfied: “That was very convincing, we never let anything go wrong until the last minute.” Ex-Essen player Vivien Endemann with a hat-trick (37th/51st/82nd), Jule Brand (14th), Ewa Pajor (16th), Dominique Janssen (66th), an own goal from Emely Joester (70th), Riola Xhemaili (83rd) and Huth (89th) ensured the overwhelming success. The ten-time cup winner kept alive what was probably his last chance for the title after the bitter defeat in the league summit against FC Bayern (0:4).
With anger in their stomachs, but without DFB captain Alexandra Popp, who had a knee injury, the merciless VfL got off to a perfect start in front of 2,889 fans. National player Brand first scored with a header and also scored a goal in the fourth cup game of the season. Shortly afterwards, top scorer Pajor successfully finished from close range.
The sixth-placed team from the Ruhr area in the Bundesliga simply made too many mistakes. After one of these in the build-up to the game by Jacqueline Meißner, Endemann, who moved from SGS to Wolfsburg in the summer, secured the preliminary decision with her first goal before the break. The super series continued: The Wolves suffered their last cup defeat in November 2013. In the round of 16, VfL lost 1-0 to 1. FFC Frankfurt (now Eintracht).