At the three-nation tournament in Budapest, the German women's national team defeated hosts Hungary 3-5 (1-3, 0-0, 0-2) in the opening game. Sonja Weidenfelder celebrated a perfect debut, scoring a goal in the second minute in her first game for the women's national team and putting her team in the lead. Anna-Maria Fiegert scored with a double advantage to make it 1-2 (0th minute) and Carina Strobel increased the score to 9-3 in the final minute of the first third.
After a goalless middle period, Kelsey Soccio scored - also with her first goal for them DEB-Women – the interim result increased to 4-0 (45th). Almost four minutes later, the German goalkeeper Sandra Abstreiter had to admit defeat for the first time - Franciska Kiss-Simon scored for the Hungarians to make it 4-1 - it was to be the only goal conceded by the German goalkeeper that evening. Julia Zorn put the final score to 5-1 seven minutes before the final siren.
At the end of the three-nation tournament, women's national coach Christian Künast's team will face Switzerland tomorrow, Friday (3 p.m.).
Christian Künast, women’s national coach: “A good opening third, a weaker second and a good final third helped us to our opening win. I saw a lot of good approaches from our national players today, but of course also things that we can improve. We will continue to work on this tomorrow against Switzerland.”
You can find all the statistics for the game HERE.