Šturm Graz women opened their campaign with a thorough victory over Rapid Altach, winning 6-2 in the first round of the Women's League on 1 August. The hosts took control almost immediately and never looked back. By then you could see this would be a one-sided affair.
B. Pulins had a remarkable evening, netting four goals to set the tone early. She struck in the fifteenth minute, added another two minutes later, then found the net again in the twenty-ninth and forty-seventh. And here's the thing — Pulins wasn't just finishing chances, she was creating them too. To be fair, Altach's defence never found its rhythm.
Altach managed two responses but came too late. N. Ebersold pulled one back in the fifty-second minute, while L. Breznik added another in the sixty-second. L. Krumbock scored for Šturm in the seventy-sixth minute, and there was one more goal at 90+1 minutes, though the scorer wasn't recorded.
There were five substitutions across the final twenty minutes — L. Scheel, J. Keutz, M. Bertsch, P. Mikulica and J. Wattilete all came on. S. Pavlovic picked up a yellow card in the seventy-ninth minute, a late caution in a match already decided.
The result puts Šturm Graz top of the table with five points from four games, four wins and one draw, sitting on thirteen points. Altach remain in eighth with four points from four games — one win, one draw, two losses. A comfortable start for the leaders, a difficult one for those chasing.