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The Austrian women’s team no longer has a chance of winning Group G in qualifying for the European Championship. The ÖFB team lost the “second leg” against world number three France in Guingamp deservedly 0: 3 (0: 2) on Friday night and will therefore cross the finish line in second place behind the “Les Bleues” classified for the MS. Wendie Renard (11th) and Marie-Antoinette Katoto (27th, 73rd) converted the hosts’ superiority into three goals.
>> Match report: France versus Austria
After the first loss in the seventh game, including the first goals conceded, Austria still has a chance to get a fixed ticket from EM. This requires a home win against Serbia on Tuesday and possibly the support of other groups as well. Only the best three save the play-off of the remaining runners-up in April 2021 for the last three starting places of the final. The tournament will only take place in England in the summer of 2022.
Defensive taktik
As in the goalless draw at Wiener Neustadt on October 27, ÖFB team boss Irene Fuhrmann relied on a very defensive 5-4-1 formation, in which captain Viktoria Schnaderbeck lacked much support. . The hope of holding zero again for a long time only lived on for a very short time this time. Goalkeeper Manuela Zinsberger reacted too late to a Majri corner kick, and Lyon captain Renard was able to get ahead of her. Seven minutes later, Zinsberger saved his team with a Geyoro-grade standing defense from a major deficit. But with the oppressive superiority of the home crowd it was only a matter of time and they fell in the 27th minute. Katoto headed a Cascarino flank into the net, Carina Wenninger and Virginia Kirchberger did not get close enough to the rival in the middle.
The ÖFB troop was only really dangerous throughout the game when Nicole Billa (32nd) had a double chance. For the previously ill 24-year-old Tyrolean, the break was over. Then the French continued their dominance, Katoto (50th) and Cascarino (69th) hit the crossbar, with Renard’s header deflected by Wenninger (60th), Zinsberger reacted brilliantly. The Arsenal legionnaire had to come up behind her again, Katoto fixed her clamp after a corner from Majri from a short distance.
This time, the Fuhrmann-Elf was a far cry from another prestigious success like the one at the end of October, when Austria had ended the French women’s streak of 46 straight wins in the qualifying matches for the World Cup and the MS. It was the first international defeat since a 1: 2 test against Switzerland on March 10, 2020. It was positive that Laura Feiersinger (from minute 61) was a supporter of the team after her injury breakup for her first appearance since March 12. November. 2019 arrived and with Lisa Kolb from Neulengbach (75th and above), the most dangerous forward in the national Bundesliga made her international debut.
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