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VfL Wolfsburg wins the women’s DFB Cup against Eintracht

Dhe DFB-Pokal generally has its own laws, in women’s football it has been valid for a while: The cup will go to Wolfsburg in May. On Sunday evening, the Lower Saxons triumphed for the seventh time in a row. But the character of the imposing series also means that the “she-wolves” almost always go into the final as favorites, but still have to do hard footballing work until they receive the silverware.

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In the Cologne arena, outsiders Frankfurter Eintracht fought devotedly against the alleged cup law for 120 minutes with all available forces. In the end, however, VfL had the better end for themselves. Ewa Pajor scored the golden goal after a goalless 90 minutes in the 118th minute.

At the moment when the ball hit the corner untenable, the outgoing head coach Stephan Lerch sank quietly to his knees in front of his bench. After this season he will move to TSG Hoffenheim, where he will take on male juniors. As a farewell, he delivered another great victory that prevented VfL’s first untitled season since 2013. Because in the Bundesliga, the green-whites are two points behind leaders Bayern Munich before the last matchday.

“You are sometimes a Trabant, sometimes a Porsche”

The Lower Saxons and Hessians did not deliver a high-class final, but a dramatic one. The Wolfsburg women are used to that at the final location on the Rhine: In the last five Cologne finals, the series winners had to go three times over a distance of 120 minutes. The SGE, who are still record winners in this competition with nine cup wins from the times of 1. FFC Frankfurt, sank to the ground in disbelief after their great fight.

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