St Pölten shared factors on the NV Enviornment in decrease Austria as they drew 1-1 with SK Sturm Graz, bringing their successful streak towards the Styrian aspect of six video games to an finish. St Pölten stay high of the ÖFB Frauen-Bundesliga by a two level margin forward of First Vienna, Graz stay in fourth.
Graz began the sport strongly away from dwelling on the NV Enviornment. St Pölten goalkeeper Carina Schlüter was compelled into a powerful save across the 15 minute mark to disclaim a gap aim. The aspect continued to push St Pölten however the quickly discovered their stride and took cost of the fixture.
The impasse was lastly damaged when Austrian Valentina Mädl capitalised on a scramble within the Graz goalmouth to poke the ball previous Romero Grzondziel. This continued Mädl’s spectacular current type at simply 18-years-old, having additionally bagged a within the UWCL in late November.
Beginning XIsSKN St Pölten Rush
Schlüter; Johanning, Balog, Mikolajová, Schumacher, Mädl, Mattner, Hillebrand, Touon, Pekel, Dubcová
Sportklub Sturm Graz
Romero-Grzondziel; Petersen, Keutz, Jakobsen, Maierhofer, Breznik, Wirnsberger, Riesenbeck, Brandl, Spiess, Uka
Graz punish St. Pölten to share the factors
Graz had a number of moments of genius as the sport approached half-time. Membership legend Uka discovered herself past the Pölten defence after some intelligent footwork. A second of footballing brilliance adopted from goalkeeper Schlüter. Two point-blank saves from Uka in fast succession ensured that the house aspect stored the lead.
The sport remained in Pölten’s management for many of the match. Simply after half-time, a poor defensive second from Pölten led to a gap for Kosovan striker Modesta Uka. The pacy ahead discovered area to lace the open ball into the Pölten again netting.
There was anticipation of a particular second as 36-year-old Slovenian worldwide Mateja Zver got here on in its place. Zver is awaiting her one centesimal league aim. At the moment sitting on 99, the midfielder will grow to be simply the fourth participant to achieve the landmark.
“We weren’t adequate within the second-half”
Valentina Mädl was fast to stipulate the necessity for higher consistency.
“I believe we’ve got to be extra aggressive and be extra focussed within the subsequent half of the season. This recreation, it simply wasn’t sufficient, we must be higher subsequent time.”
St Pölten now make their ultimate preparations forward of the mid-season break that gained’t see them play domestically till February.
With the crew attributable to play Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League, Mädl assured the crew isn’t taking without any consideration how nicely they carried out final time pout towards the English crew.
“We all know that we are able to damage them with our particular person possibilities, we simply need to do it higher than we did at the moment,” she stated.
What comes subsequent for the 2 groups?
St Pölten will journey to Manchester Metropolis for his or her UWCL fixture. They are going to be hoping to earn their first factors of Group D after a of their final outing, dropping by a slim 3-2 margin. They head into the winter break high of the league.
Sturm Graz will now head into the Frauen Bundesliga winter break sitting fourth within the desk. Their subsequent fixture can even be towards St Pölten, this time within the ÖFB Frauen Cup in February.
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