Wow, now we even have match threads one day in advance! Also, I hate the fact that, from tomorrow on, the group games will be at the same time, so I would have to choose one or to zap from one to the other!
🇿🇦 vs 🇩🇪Let's goooooooo......#DareToShine #fifawwc #BanyanaBanyana #LeMomentDeBriller @SAFA_net @bafana_bafana #RSA pic.twitter.com/SmDdzUcb7w— Banyana_Banyana (@Banyana_Banyana) June 17, 2019 Unsere Start-11! 🇿🇦🇩🇪 WIR #IMTEAM #RSAGER #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/gXVT6s8eTr— DFB-Frauen (@DFB_Frauen) June 17, 2019
Chemistry lacks so far... Huth with the first offside of the day, curious how many it will be this match
I turned to South Africa-Germany just to watch the goal: looks frankly too much easy for Germany. Is this a way to defend a CK at the World Cup stage? Happy that I chose to wacth China-Spain: looks much more interesting.
It would be funny if Germany didn't score any more and this one finished 1-0, too. LOL. Sadly have classes at uni and cannot watch today .
South Africa: Dlamini for Swart; Vilakazi for Holweni; Ndimeni for DM Mbane (and Jane => DM); Mthandi for Kgatlana(!). I guess Kgatlana is the super-sub. Germany: LW Bühl for RB Hendrich (and Schweers => LB, Gwinn => RB); Magull for Oberdorf, Leupolz for Goeßling.
03' 0-0 Magull fk at 13m wide left to 6m left post, Däbritz slide-pokes but misses(?), Popp arrives from and volleys soft left instep low to 1/4 left, GK collects. Great opportunity early for Germany off the free kick, but Popp's finish leaves a lot to be desired. #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/8HK0DlmCXk— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 17, 2019 14' 0-1 Schweers left ck, severe inswing to 5m 1/4 left. Biyana misjudges the movement, leaves a 1m lateral gap from Leupolz standing motionless thereat, simple step-and-twist header into back left low. That much swerve on a ck almost counts as a trick play by itself Germany strike first! Melanie Leupolz heads in a corner to make it 1-0. #GER would win Group B with a win or draw. #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/vIOgFYQirq— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 17, 2019 Leupolz's 4" height advantage is a big problem for Biyana on free headers -- that's a poor match-up even if she had proper position.
Horrendous defending from South Africa. I hope we don't see a rout, but from how things are going I suppose a 5-0/6-0 shouldn't be out of the realm of possible.
17' 0-1 Hegering passes long to Schweers at 33m wide left. Schweers touches to 27m wide left, crosses to 15m arc left -- meanwhile, Däbritz is-winning her jog through arc top mid-left, 1 step ahead of RW Mthandi also jogging. Makhabane(?) blocks ball down, right to Magull's feet, Magull taps diagonal pass to Däbritz at 8m 8-left. Däbritz shoots one-touch left instep to 1/4 left, Dlamini blocks ball down to 6-top center. Popp is right there, reflex half-volley (off her left shin) blazes just over crossbar center. Oh. My. God. 😱How did Alexandra Popp miss!? #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/Jlhs2GDPRK— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 17, 2019 29' 0-2 Hegering kicks upfield to Schweers at 23m wide left. Simple cross inswings to 9m 1/4 left, nobody is that far forward. Dlamini dives out but takes the wrong angle, beaten by the inswing -- she dives centerward, orthogonal to her momentum, double-blocks but does not catch. LB Vilakazi is caught ball-watching and slowing down at 18m 6-right, Däbritz accelerates and front-cuts her on the inside through arc right. Ball trickles to 11m right post, Däbritz shoots one-touch left instep past Dlamini diving back to 6-top, into 1/4 right back low. When Germany go on these speed attacks, South Africa's lack of full-field awareness or discipline is killing them, as the off-ball defenders who aren't in the play are suddenly not in the play because their marks just outran them. 2-0, Germany! 😳South Africa goalkeeper Andile Dlamini makes it rather easy for Sara Daebritz to slot home her 2nd goal of the #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/njPliqmSuD— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 17, 2019
Yes, thank you: watched it in highlights at HT. I confirm that this match looks like it should end 5 or 6 to nil.
40' 0-3 Däbritz(?) counters between 2 lines to 33m mid-right, passes to Gwinn overlapping unmarked to 10m wide right. Meanwhile (I hear cellos ), Popp trails Ramalepe through arc left, lurks behind her left shoulder. Gwinn crosses to 8m 1/4 left, Ramalepe jumps decently but Popp simply: [x] 1.reads the flight better, [x] 2.front-cuts to the ball past a stationary (or vertically-jumping) defender, [x] 3.outheights Ramalepe by about 5", and heads down past goalline 1/3 right, into 1/4 right back. It's not entirely Ramalepe's fault; in the air she's just not in Popp's class. REDEMPTION! 🇩🇪This time Popp makes no mistake and heads in her 1st goal at this #FIFAWWC to make it 3-0. pic.twitter.com/eXC3xJxKpQ— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 17, 2019 HT 0-3. Early 2H stats: South Africa 2(0)-(6!)11 shots(sog), 0-3 corners, 0-3 offsides, 4-6 fouls, 24-9 clearances, 42% possession.
46' 0-3 Germany subs in (1 of 3) #2 Carolin Simon for #17 Verena Schweers. 46' 0-3 South Africa subs in: - (1 of 3) #22 Rhoda Mulaudzi for #8 Ode Fulutudilu - (2 of 3) #11 Thembi Kgatlana for #9 Amanda Mthandi.
53' 0-3 Ramalepe challenges Huth at 10m box left, steps on her left foot, then body-bumps her and both go down. Foul, yellow card on Ramalepe. 54' 0-3 Yellow card on Magull. 56' 0-3 Vilakazi fouls Doorsoun, and stays down injured. VAR check? Yellow card on Vilakazi. 58' 0-4 Simon fk at 35m mid-right, high inswing to 8m left post. Hegering has inside position on Matlou and a 1/2 step lead past Ramalepe, dive-heads across mouth, Dlamini dives left and pushes it off right post -- meanwhile, Magull runs past Biyana up centerline, is alone through 6-top center. Ball spins along goalline to 1/3 right, past Van Wyk going to right post. Magull arrives first, sweeps ball over line with Dlamini still down. The goals keep coming for Germany!!!Lina Magull is there to collect the rebound off the post and put Germany up by 4! pic.twitter.com/JVHVHj7mDm— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 17, 2019 Germany in ruthless mode is a tough match-up. South Africa's defenders don't see runs this aggressive in their league, and nothing prepares them to match the intensity.
59' 0-4 Germany subs in (2 of 3) #16 Linda Dallman for #9 Svenja Huth. 66' 0-4 Germany subs in (3 of 3) #7 Lea Schüller for #19 Klara Bühl. 71' 0-4 Van Wyk shoots from 33m 1/4 right, just over Schult's fingertips and crossbar 1/3 left. 73' 0-4 Schüller crosses from box right to 6-top left post, Däbritz half-volley, Dlamini slides out and blocks off her chest, to 13m 1/3 left, chases the rebound and falls on it. 74' 0-4 Off that restart(?), Makhabane through-ball springs Kgatlana 3m+ ahead of the line through 27m center, to 15m 1/3 left as Schult comes out to 12m. Kgatlana shoots right foottop rising toward 1/3 right, but Schult is so close that there's no angle, she blocks at her left shoulder, away through arc right.