BVB women also hunting for points in Cologne | OneFootball

Starting point

“Against Gütersloh, we implemented the tactical things we had set out to do very well. We showed dominance over a long period and did not allow a single scoring chance,” Markus Högner praised his team in the post-match review. In their third home game, the BVB women celebrated their highest win of this Regionalliga season so far with a 6-0 home victory against FSV Gütersloh – before that, the Borussinnen had also won 6-0 against 1. FFC Recklinghausen in the Westfalenpokal. This week, the second round of the Westfalenpokal was also scheduled down to the exact kickoff time.

Squad

Marina Scholz has rejoined team training, with her workload being managed carefully. “On Thursday we had two sessions, and she only took part in one of them so as not to rush anything, but it’s even possible that she’ll be back in the squad this weekend,” said Markus Högner. Emilia Pauls, who has also recovered, trained fully with the team again this week and could get her first match practice this weekend with the BVB women’s second team.

Opponents

After finishing first in the table last year, the women from Cologne were promoted from the Mittelrheinliga to the Regionalliga West with 20 wins from 22 matches. That marked the start of DJK Südwest Köln’s self-declared “mission to stay up.” Eight new signings arrived in the summer for that purpose, strengthening the squad to a total of 31 players, according to the club’s website. In six matches so far, the Cologne side have picked up just one point, against DJK Wacker Mecklenbeck, and currently sit thirteenth in the table. “Even so, the team has often only conceded shortly before the end. We expect an opponent that will sit deep and that we have to take seriously,” Markus Högner explained.

Excitement in Cologne

The BVB women are set for three upcoming away games in Cologne. In addition to their next opponents, DJK Südwest Köln, the BVB women will also visit Vorwärts Spoho Köln (18 October) and SC Fortuna Köln (8 November) on the left bank of the Rhine. The newly promoted side from southwest Cologne is eagerly anticipating the visit of the Borussinnen around captain Alex Popp: “It could get really crowded on 4 October,” the club announced on its website in anticipation of the match against the BVB women. “The league is extremely strong, definitely the strongest Regionalliga West there has ever been,” added coach Niklas Schubert. And it is in that very Regionalliga West that the BVB women want to extend their lead at the top of the table on Sunday.

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