Wolfsburg wins women’s German Cup for 7th year in a row

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<p>COLOGNE, Germany &mdash; Ewa Pajor scored the only goal of the game in extra time as Wolfsburg lifted the women’s German Cup for the seventh year in a row Sunday with a 1-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.</p>
<p>After an attritional 90 minutes, Wolfsburg was down to 10 players in the sixth minute of extra time when goalkeeper Almuth Schult earned a red card for rushing out of her penalty area to stop a counterattack and hurtling into Frankfurt’s Lara Prašnikar.</p>
<p>Wolfsburg had lost only once to German opposition all season and still created the better chances after Schult was sent off. </p>
<p>Svenja Huth drew the Frankfurt defense wide on a counter and laid the ball off to Pajor, who had space to score low into the bottom-left corner with two minutes left. It was the second time in three seasons that the Poland striker had decided a German Cup final after Pajor scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Freiburg in 2019. </p>
<p>Wolfsburg has won the cup eight times in total, behind only Frankfurt, which won nine as FFC Frankfurt before it merged with the Eintracht Frankfurt club last year.</p>
<p>Wolfsburg can win the women’s Bundesliga next week but will realistically have to rely on leader Bayern Munich losing its last game of the season against Frankfurt on June 6.</p>
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