The winter break has also ended in women's football and the women from FC St. Pauli were immediately expecting the undefeated top team from Wellingsbüttel. They would have liked to inflict their first defeat on the league leaders, but a minute was missing.
After my blog was apparently taken offline by hackers on Sunday morning, the pictures from the game can only be seen here today. It may very well be that the performance of my blog is not at the usual level - I ask for your understanding: several gigabytes of image data from previous years are still being copied in the background. I hope I was able to eliminate the malicious code. Oh yes, my portfolio is not running yet. That is also affected, but the blog was more important to me in the repair 🙂
Let's get to the game: the FC St. Pauli team started briskly and dominated the game, but the first goal fell for Wellingsbüttel after a wonderful chip after a quarter of an hour. Parallels to the first men's team's game in Munich are purely coincidental. The women converted their superiority into goals in the 20th and 40th minutes. Sarah Schulz's long-range shot in the top right corner to make it 2-1 at halftime was a real blast. Unfortunately, the Wellingsbüttel goalkeeper was injured. Get well soon.
In the second half, the table leaders from TSC appeared much more dominant and restricted the FC St. Pauli women in their own half. They deservedly equalized and pushed for more. 10 minutes before the end, FC St. Pauli countered and made it 3-2 with a wonderful shot into the far corner by Nina Philipp. Now the women in brown and white didn't want to let their victory be taken away from them. However, things turned out differently. In the 91st minute, Wellingsbüttler took a free kick in midfield. However, a player from FC St. Pauli was injured and had to leave the field for a short time. The TSC women took advantage of this majority and scored a well-deserved 3:3 equalizer.
It's a shame that the league leaders' first defeat didn't work out.
I moved to the sidelines with my 50mm lens and brought back a few pictures of the game.
By the way, I also found the referee's call shortly before the end of the game funny, telling me that I had to stay outside the 5-meter area. Even the opposing goalkeeper laughed. The official probably thought I was part of the support staff. You probably don't see photographers in the association league that often.
Conclusion: once again a nice football afternoon on Feldstrasse. It's worth it again and again...
