Victory on penalties: Potsdam in the final against Wolfsburg

Created: 04/18/2022Updated: 04/18/2022 10:04 p.m

The Potsdam women cheer after the game.

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Turbine Potsdam is back in the women's DFB Cup final after seven years.

The Bundesliga third had the better end on Monday evening in a penalty shoot-out with 4: 3 at Bayer Leverkusen.

After 120 minutes the score was 1-1 (1-1, 0-0), with both goals coming from penalties.

Leverkusen/Potsdam – From a Potsdam perspective, Melissa Kössler was the first to miss in the penalty shoot-out.

But Isabel Kerschowski, who already scored in the game, Sara Holmgaard, Sophie Weidauer and Sara Agrez showed nerves of steel from the point, while Leverkusen's Milena Nikolic shot wide and Caroline Siems hit the crossbar.

Turbine Potsdam meets VfL Wolfsburg in the cup final on May 28th.

In 2015, the turbines lost 3-0 to the serial winner in their last participation in the final.

Potsdam tried to put their stamp on the game in the Ulrich Haberland Stadium at the foot of the BayArena, which was well attended by 2,000 spectators.

The optical superiority could not initially be converted into goals.

Maria Plattner missed the best opportunity in the first half in the 34th minute, when she fired a shot from ten meters out in front of the Leverkusen goal, but Bayer goalkeeper Anna Klink was able to parry the ball at the last moment.

"You have to turn a chance like that, who knows if you'll get a chance like that again," said ex-Turbine player and TV expert Fatmire Alushi-Bajramaj during the break on the Sky microphone.

In front of his own goal, Turbine didn't allow much and was still behind all of a sudden,

when referee Riem Hussien awarded the Bayer women a penalty after Teninsoun Sissoko made slight physical contact with Dora Zeller.

Dina Blagojevic converted that to give the hosts a 1-0 lead (66').

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When the alleged equalizer by Melissa Kössler was not recognized due to a foul (81st), Potsdam seemed finally out of luck.

But just 60 seconds later, Hussein pointed to the penalty spot again, this time after a handball from Jessica Wich from Leverkusen.

Isabel Kerschowski was very lucky - Klink was still on the ball - to make it 1:1 (83rd) and thus ensured the goalless extra time.

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