This is considered one of the warm-up matches for both teams to prepare for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand next July. However, after the hard-fought victory over Vietnam, coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg of the German women's team (ranked 2nd in the world ) expressed dissatisfaction with what her players showed against coach Mai Duc Chung's team, who was rated lower. "That was not the performance we wanted. It was only 40% of the required level. The team did not really control the game convincingly. We still have a lot of work to do in the coming time," coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said when the German women's team had a friendly match with Zambia on July 7 before finalizing the list of 23 players for the Women's World Cup.
Coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg is not satisfied with the performance of the German women's team against Vietnam.
Facing Vietnam (ranked 32nd in the world), coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg did not have 5 key players of Bayern Munich: Lina Magull, Sydney Lohmann, Lea Schuller, Carolin Simon and Klara Buhl, and goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger of Chelsea, who also joined the national team late, was on the bench. However, the home team's strength was still rated much higher than that of coach Mai Duc Chung's team. Coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg herself also admitted that the absence of some key players and the nature of the friendly match were not the reasons to explain the unconvincing performance against the Vietnamese women's team. Because if not for luck, the German women's team would not have had this victory.
According to German media, the selection of the Vietnamese women's team was approved by the German Football Federation (DFB) because the opponent has a defensive style of play similar to the Korean women's team, the team in Group H with them at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The German women's team's attack (left) had trouble against Vietnam, who actively played defense.
The German women's team opened the scoring early in the third minute, scored by Paulina Krumbiegel. However, in the following time, the home team failed to create a breakthrough to penetrate the tight defense and determination of Vietnam. In particular, coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said that the attacking players often lacked coordination in coordination and inaccurate passes to create scoring opportunities. This coach even praised goalkeeper Frohms for her excellent saves to help the home team avoid an equalizer.
The changes in the German women's team's personnel in the second half still did not help their attack. It was not until the 80th minute that coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg's students doubled the gap, but a mistake in defense made them pay the price with a goal to reduce the score to 1-2 for the Vietnamese women's team by Nguyen Thi Thanh Nha. With this difficult victory, coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg emphasized that the German women's team needs to improve a lot if they want to be considered a strong candidate for the world championship in Australia and New Zealand.
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