Road to Germany 2011 / Englands World Cup Qualifying Part 2

So after the Rain has finally stopped ( and the cold wind started instead ) second half was underway....
but let me just resume to first half for those who missed the important part :)
well as I said England was the better team and Alex Scott ( who did wear the Nr 7 -to keep the shirt warm for Kaz Carney :O) ) had two great chances unfortunately missed the target...



It could have been already about 3/4 nil for England but also on the other hand it could have been a 1-2 for England (2 for Austria after those 2 terrifying chances the Austrians had)...
Second half begun just as the first half..England did play very well and no surpise that with a amazing cross into the Box from Lianne Sanderson, Aluko made the 2-0

England still putting on pressure and some more chances by Sanderson , Aluko and Williams -just didnt go into the net. on the other side Austria again with a wide-range shot hit the cross-bar.

Ellen White came to her Senior debut..and oh what a debut :)





Coming on at the 62th Minute for Dunia Susi, who also made a fantastic game, she hit the net at the 90th minute after another great cross /assist from Sanderson.

3-0 was the Final Score.. and we could be complaining on highest level by saying "well done, but it could have been more" :O)



MY Player of the Match ( an not only mine!! ) was Lianne Sanderson..offical PoM was E.Aluko (to the suprise of herself it seemed LOL and to all the Fans surrounding me)

It was a great game and also great to meet all those other Fans



next Game will be against Spain and well just winning the Game is all..so the chances that might not have been taken are not interesting anymore
so be there at MILLWALL and Support the England Ladies!

If you cant make it, be sure that there will be another Blog about England Ladies Road to Germany2011 :)

ROAD TO GERMANY 2011 /Englands World Cup Qualifying Part 1

SO after a loong break it was the time for the Next Round of the World Cup 2011 Qualification and England has to face two of the strongest competitors Austria and Spain.

Reason enough for the German :) to travel to England to support England on their way to Germany 2011. After finally theFA decided to announce the Venues like 8 weeks before the Games -all came to LONDON! Never been here before so I was really happy and exited..cant say about what more, beeing in this amazing town or about witnessing LIVE these two games - make a guess :)

So finally the day had come...the First Qualifier would take place at the Lovely QPR Loftus Road :) some of the Fans were meeting up before and it was nice finally meeting them all in PERSON instead of just speaking on Facebook,Twitter and all these new media! Well what should say, we had a blast time and well time flies when you are having fun..so I was never that late for a Game as yesterday :O)

Arriving at the QPR we went to our uncovered seats...no need to mention that it was raining cats and dogs ! and Kick-Off was like immediately!
England had some few changes... Karen Carney and Anita Asante still absent due to their injury (recovery) and OH YEAH ..Kelly Smith was in the stands, cos her knee was causing trouble and the decision was as she said " Looking at the bigger picture!" THE SPAIN GAME



England started very well..although sometimes we were worried about those nb 4 and 14 of Austria... :) well we havent said it to ourselves, Hope Powell was already shouting those numbers ;)



Oh btw... we were standing in the first row so we decided to give some advice to the Austrian Nb 4 to "PULL UP YOUR SOCKS" :) well even in German (Austrians speak German) she didnt respond..

oh and btw chanting.. I HAVE TO COMPLAIN A BIT AT THIS POINT.. when it comes to Chanting and Rooting...the England Fans ( and I am not talking about the Kids cos they ARE doing it!) have to practise a bit more for the WORLD CUP in Germany..
I will try to translate some of the usual Chants singing in the German Stadiums ;)
plenty of time to increase that LOL
no wonder that no one heard me shouting "Come on England"
oh and my Favorite " Bard(sley) for nr 1"

England was the way better team with some nice playing but after the 1-0 in the 16th minute from Sanderson suddenly Austria had two big chances which was saved by Bardsley and the other cannoned off the bar (like this expression thanks to theFa.com match report :)



Halftime was 1-0 and time to get a bit dryer..well I dont know if I was dryer afterwards but a nice tea made it a bit warmer ;)



...to be continued

UEFA Womens Champions League Quarter Final Part 2

The game was dominated by the hosts of FCR Duisburg right from the second of Kick-Off! Freezing Temperatures and a moody and partly frozen and hard pitch in bad condition make Arsenal struggled at the beginning beeing to nervous and having problems with ball control.
Duisburg put pressure from the start and only the Cross bar saved the ALFC from an early goal.
After a corner in the 24 minute suddenly there were hectic and non-organized defending , Duisburg hit several shots at the goal all saved and stopped by Arsenal Defence. Somehow one of those shots hit Little at the Hand right at the goal line... again Luck for thr ALFC cos the Referee only gave a Penalty and a yellow card. Grings easy with the Goal from the PK!



With 1-0 up Duisburg was confident at Half time...although Laudehr had to be subbed due to muscle Problems
Second half Duisburg began with a lot of pressure again and Hegering hit the double lead 2-0 at the 49th Minute.
Arsenal came back with more offensive play at this part of the game... and could take advantage of the loss of concentration Duisburg were showing. A free-kick from Little accidently hit Grings and she scored the own goal with the header.
To be honest this goal for the ALFC came out of nothing and even the stadium announcer didnt recognize it: :) Well actually I have to admitt that I missed it too, cos I tried to give some Twitter Updates with frozen fingers and missed the goal!! :) well and only two people were happy and shouting about that...I guess we just werent loud enough :)

Duisburg still was trying to put back pressure and two chances from Grings and Maes again were only be saved by the cross-bar.



Luckily the Game ended 2-1 ...with the Away Goal the ALFC still have all the chances.
The Second Leg will take place at Sunday the 14th March Bishop’s Stortford FC

UEFA Womens Champions League Quarter Final Part 1

Last Wednesday it was the first leg of this years UEFA Womens Champions League Quarter Final against FCR Duisburg and Arsenal Ladies (ALFC) Those of you who already know me, know that I am a huge fan of the ALFC although I am German ;) and even more that I am not a big fan of the FCR!

Duisburg decided that a Quarter Final midweek Fixture against a well known and international successful Team such as ALFC should be taking place in a "proper" stadium ( besides the Fact that they do have some Floodlight problems in their own stadium ) and with the success of last years Final (well still called UEFA CUP at this time) and 28'000 attandance they moved the Game to the lovely and impressive MSV Arena



So I got off work early and drove up from my hometown for 3 hours to attend this game. First I picked up the "hardcore ALFC FAN" from England, who does fly to nearly all the away games ( or all!? ) and we arrived very early at the venue.
Here I have to tell you a story about the "FANS" in Germany...In General Womens Football Fans in Germany are different than those of Mens Football, more interested in the sport itself that in any "fighting" and usually polite and civilised..well usually..my ALFC Friend from UK and I were talking about "idiots" amongst the Fans and that there are more and more of them suddenly appearing at the Womens Football Games... and what happened??.... WE-the only 2 Arsenal supporter with Arsenal Jerseys got yelled by a obviously already slight drunk IDIOT :
"F%$ Arsenal, ManU is the best" he screamed at me!
I said to him in german..yeah a suprise for him that I speak German :) ...something...that I wont repeat here...and than I smiled and said (in german) "You know that you are at the Womens Game Duisburg-Arsenal...Whatever!"...well so much about this... :(

Forgot this episode already when we got our tickets from a nice ALFC Lady and realized it was VIP Tickets.. We got into the warmth of the VIP Section, had some nice tea and Juice and a wonderful meal ;)
and believe it was really freezing cold!!


It was soo cold that I only took pictures at the Warm up ;)

The stadium was unfortunately not so crowed as the FCR has expected but at least 5'145 People attended the game....

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