The first round of fixtures in this international break sees Thomas Delaney and the Eggestein brothers celebrating, while Marco Friedl and the Austria U21s suffered a heavy defeat.
The first round of fixtures in this international break sees Thomas Delaney and the Eggestein brothers celebrating, while Marco Friedl and the Austria U21s suffered a heavy defeat.
Denmark versus Panema - the game took place on Thursday afternoon in the town of Brondby and one Werder player, who is as routed into the starting XI as the Weser is to Bremen is Thomas Delaney took up his usual position in the middle of the park helping his side to a 1-0 victory over Panama. It was Pione Sisto from Celta Vigo, who fired in the goal which turned out to be enough to beat the Central American side.
500 kilometres further south in Braunschweig, the Germany U21s kicked off against Israel in front of 6,000 fans, as part of their European Championship qualifying campaign. Maximilian Eggestein was chosen by coach Stefan Kuntz to start the game and played well as the team won 3-0 with goals from Löwen, Teuchert and ex-Werder player Öztunali, with Maxi winning the penalty that Öztunali converted for the third goal. This was the team’s fifth win in six games and will play again on Tuesday against Kosovo.
A further 850 kilometres south was where Marco Friedl was to be found playing for the Austria U21team. The young Werder man however came off at half time with Austria losing 2-0, with the team going on to lose 5-0.
2700 kilometres to the southwest and you end up in the Portuguese town of Coimbra. Here the Germany U20s played Portugal in a friendly. Johannes Eggestein started for the U20s in their 1-0 win over the fellow Europeans. Top stuff, Johannes!
