U21 European Championship Playoffs: Germany defeated Ukraine – Spiegel Online

Hamburg – The German U21 national team in a very good position in the battle for qualification for the European Championship 2015 has procured. The team of coach Horst Hrubesch won the play-off first leg against Ukraine 3: 0 (1: 0). Philipp Hofmann (35th minute), Kevin Volland (61) and Jonas Hofmann (79) met the considerable success of the DFB-Elf. Much of this success had Max Meyer of FC Schalke: The 19-year-old was substituted in the second half and prepared two hits with spectacular actions. The second leg takes place in Essen on 14 October.

In many of the U21 players who are eligible professionals who were appointed by Joachim Loew in the cadre of A-national team, she did the German team hard at first. In Cherkassy, ​​it was the hosts who came to the first chance of the match, but Vladislav Kalitwinzew (6) and Vladislav Kulatsch (7) awarded each detached the opportunity on the 1: 0 for Ukraine.

In its first successful attack the German team took the lead: Jonas Hofmann of Mainz 05 won the ball in the penalty box and crossed for Kaiserslautern striker Philipp Hofmann, who headed the ball in from close range to score (35th ). Until then, Germany was only occasionally penetrated before the Ukrainian goal.

After the break, the DFB-Elf turned on then, and that was mainly due to substitute Meyer. Only built Hoffenheim Volland of the lead after he showed up for a free Traumpass of Schalke midfielder in front of goal. Then Jonas Hofmann met to 3: 0 (79) – went back to the search results a strong single action of Meyer ahead. Confined space of the U21 debutant was vorbeigedribbelt on a defender, and then to use his teammates.

In the final phase of the German team even missed several opportunities to a fourth goal. The biggest was from Jonas Hofmann, as he detached the target shot from around twelve yards passing. The preliminary work had come again Meyer.

The results of the remaining playoff games at a glance:

Netherlands – Portugal 0: 2 (0: 1)
Serbia – Spain 0 : 0
Slovakia – Italy 1: 1 (0: 0)
Denmark – Iceland kickoff by 18 clock
England – Croatia kick-off at 18.45 clock
France – Sweden kick-off at 18.45 clock