Stefanie Enzinger / Image: APA
Turin. The first group stage in the women's Champions League will take place without an Austrian club. Master St. Pölten had to admit defeat 1: 4 in the duel for a place in the play-off Juventus Turin and could the successful run of the previous year, when in the previous knockout mode the advance into the top 16 was successful ( Off against Rosengaard) do not repeat. The Italians were considered to be one of the toughest possible lots for the first qualifying phase and underlined this in the final of the mini-tournament in the Turin training center.
The goal conceded by Barbara Bonansea (8th) threw the SKN plan overboard early on, as a result the Lower Austrians found it very difficult: Not only had the game to be made, but an opponent was also lurking who punished mistakes ice-cold – for example, when goalkeeper Isabella Kresche stood too far in front of her box and was overtaken by Bonansea (54th). This is the international hardship that Austria's series champions have to pay, because that's never actually the case in the domestic Bundesliga. Cristiana Girelli (64th) and Lina Hurtig (90th) increased for Juve, Stefanie Enzinger, who shone with a hat trick and two assists in the 7-0 win against Beşiktaş Istanbul, scored the honorary goal for St. Pölten (67th). This means that the SKN women are concentrated in the national competitions, the declared goal is another double win.
Hoffenheim, Arsenal continue
The Austrian legionnaires are now holding the red-white-red flag high. Sarah Zadrazil and Carina Wenninger are firmly in the group stage with Bayern Munich, and Hoffenheim (Nicole Billa, Laura Wienroither, Katharina Naschenweng, Celina Degen) and Arsenal (Manuela Zinsberger, Viktoria Schnaderbeck) also want to go there. The German club defeated AC Milan 2-0 and met Rosengaard in the play-off in ten days. Arsenal beat PSV Eindhoven 3-1 to face Slavia Prague. (swi)
