“I am empty”, affirmed a devastated Alexandra Poppstriker and captain of Wolfsburg after the dramatic defeat in the final of Champions League he is new boat in Eindhoven (3-2), with an epic comeback for Jonatan Giráldez’s team after an explosive second half.
It is not for less. Something happened in the home dressing room so that, in the subsequent 0-2, the blaugrana scored three goals (two of them in the first five minutes) and a third after 70′. Tommy Stroot’s team, stunned, were unable to react. The ‘slut’ of the Germans is as brutal as the work of the Catalans.
“We felt that we controlled Barcelona and at half time we said that we have to continue playing like this: we got into all the duels and were there, even if not everyone worked 100 percent in front.” “No one expected what happened, and it hurts brutally,” admitted the captain of the German team.
“I should look into it further, but I really don’t want to.” Barça applied very high pressure in this phase and Popp was clear about one thing, especially with Rölfo’s goal. “We failed to clear the ball in the first place.” Popp described the first part as “brutally intense”. “We’re not used to a lot of pressure, from right to left.”
The footballer is self-critical, because Wolfsburg also made mistakes in the league that Bayern won: “In the league, and quite a bit now, it’s our fault that we lose games. It’s just because we made mistakes in important stages or we weren’t where we should have been .”
Source: La Verdad
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