Title within reach
Wolfsburg’s women rush Bayern
5/4/2022 9:56 p.m
The women of VfL Wolfsburg are about to win the German championship. With a thumping victory, the team has created a very comfortable situation: On Friday, the former series champions can possibly celebrate the title comfortably in front of the television.
The footballers of VfL Wolfsburg can cool the championship champagne: Four days after losing the Champions League semi-final against FC Barcelona, the DFB Cup winner clearly won his Bundesliga catch-up game at SGS Essen 5-1 (3-1). With two games to go, the league leaders have a four-point lead over defending champions Bayern Munich.
Dominique Janssen (16′, penalty kick/67′), Ewa Pajor (28′), Tabea Waßmuth (33′) and Sandra Starke (90’+3′) scored for VfL. Vivien Endemann (36th) was successful for the Essen women, who are not yet certain of staying up.
Wolfsburg can thus already on Sunday (4 p.m. / MagentaSport) complete the seventh championship title with a win at FC Carl Zeiss Jena, who have been relegated. If Bayern lost in Leverkusen, the championship would even be decided on Friday.
VfL Wolfsburg is the measure of all things in women’s football – and could now return to the throne after a year in which FC Bayern was ahead. In the last five years, the “wolves” celebrated four German championships. The team last lost a game in the DFB Cup in 2014 (!), after which they won seven titles in a row.
Most recently, coach Tommy Stroot’s team delivered a thrilling, in parts historic Champions League duel with FC Barcelona: In the first leg, the possibly upcoming German champions went down 5-1 at the Camp Nou in front of a world record crowd of 91,648 people, in the second leg Then VfL Wolfsburg ended a tremendous series: the Bundesliga club beat the highly favored Spaniard 2-0 – it was the first defeat for the women of FC Barcelona after 45 (!) unbeaten games. More than 20,000 spectators came to the Volkswagen Arena, more than ever before at a home game of the squad led by DFB captain Alexandra Popp.