Thanks to the accuracy of his national team striker Alexandra Popp, the German soccer champions VfL Wolfsburg made it through to the round of 16 of the DFB Cup.
A week before the start of the Bundesliga, the selection captain scored four goals in the final safe 8:2 (3:1) victory of the cup defenders at second division FSV Gütersloh. The other Wolfsburg goals came from Jill Roord, Dominique Janssen, Lynn Willms and Ewa Pajor. Gütersloh had taken a 1-0 lead through Jacqueline Baumgärtel, Ronja Leubner had meanwhile reduced the lead to 2:3 for the second division team.
Favorites prevail
Most of the other teams in the Bundesliga survived the second round of the cup without any problems. Eintracht Frankfurt won 7-0 (3-0) at regional league club SV Weinberg, 1. FC Köln outclassed hosts SV Elversberg from the regional league 8-0 (3-0), also thanks to a hat-trick by Mandy Islacker.
Only Freiburg and Potsdam have to tremble
SGS Essen also celebrated superior successes with 6:1 (2:1) at ATS Buntentor, MSV Duisburg with 5:0 (2:0) at Magdeburger FFC, Bayer Leverkusen with 4:1 (2:0) at TSV Jahn Calden , Werder Bremen 3-0 (1-0) at SV Henstedt-Ulzburg and TSG Hoffenheim 7-1 (3-0) at 1. FC Saarbrücken. Only SC Freiburg only managed to win 3:2 (1:1, 0:0) at second division club SG Andernach after extra time, while Turbine Potsdam only won 3:2 on penalties (2:0/3:3/4: 4) at FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin from the Regionalliga Nordost.
FC Bayern Munich is not playing at FC Ingolstadt until this Monday (September 12th, 2022).
