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21:24
This lead can hardly be more deserved, minutes before the goal was scored, the goal was already in the air. It is a tailor-made start for the DFB players!
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21:21
Tooor for Germany, 1-0 through Lina Magull
Finally – there’s the long overdue 1-0. The Germans needed three big chances to take the lead. Magull punishes a pass from Bruun to Stine Pedersen that is too short, ties the ball away from the Dänninen and runs towards Christensen alone. From a slightly offset distance of ten meters to the right, Magull nailed the ball dry and with a tight shot into the upper right corner – no chance for the Danish goalkeeper.
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21:20
Magull has that 1-0 on foot: A cross from Svenja Huth, who keeps the Danes busy on the right, precedes her finish. Magull, who is quite free-standing in front of the goal and does not properly control a demanding volley, finds her cross sharp. Somewhat unconventionally she brings the ball to the right corner, where Christensen reacts confidently.
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21:17
The DFB team’s first corner is curled close to the Danish goal, where Christensen is not quite sure and finally deflects the ball to the other side out of the goal. With the second corner kick, she is more alert and grabs the play equipment in the six-yard box.
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21:16
Unbelievable – what a chance! Again, it’s Felicitas Rauch who takes the measure from the second row, but instead of using force, she now tries a deliberate chip ball. Lene Christensen wipes the ball against the crossbar again. And the opportunity mutates into a triple chance, Schüller also hits the aluminum with his head, Bühl finally misses. Since Bayern striker Schüller was offside when Rauch passed the ball, a goal in the second or third attempt would not have counted anyway.
12.
21:14
Overall, this is a good start for the DFB team. In addition to the best chance of the game, the team also dominates the game with more possession of the ball.
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21:11
slat cracker! Sara Däbritz refuels in the penalty area through the opposing defense and then plays a cross pass to the left half. There, smoke comes out of the back room with a lot of force and fires one off. And how! From about twenty meters she chases the ball to the right of the crossbar, Däbritz misses the margin.
8th.
21:10
But now the Danes also have the first opportunity: Madsen grazes the ball just after the penalty spot with his head, but puts it to the left of the goal.
8th.
21:09
Bühl fouls a bit rustically in midfield and is warned for it, the DFB team is intense in the game here.
7.
21:08
The German defense only had minor complications when the Scandinavians took a half-field free kick. Finally, the ball is cleared into the right touchline.
5.
21:07
The first chance goes to the slightly favored German team. Huth works the ball back against Katrine Veje and now brings a better cross into the centre. Bühl gets the ball a little in the back and thus does not build up enough pressure on the header, which lands on the goal roof in a high trajectory from eight meters away.
4.
21:05
The first few minutes mostly take place in midfield. Then Huth picks up the pace on the right side, but lets himself be pushed quite far to the outside. Her cross went too close to the goal from the baseline and landed in the clutches of Denmark keeper Christensen.
2.
21:03
Hegering wants to show right away that her long injury break with only one Bundesliga game in the second half of the season shouldn’t play a major role and stops a through ball from the Danes with a great positional play.
1.
21:01
The European Championship has also started for the German team! Magull has just played the kick-off for the national team, who play in white, while the opponents from Denmark play in red jerseys.
20:59
The national anthems are played in the English capital, which is also the host of the world’s most popular tennis tournament, Wimbledon. The Swiss referee Esther Staubli asks Huth and Harder to choose sides, it can start right away!
20:55
Many fans are still outside the stadium, so the teams arrive before the crowds aren’t quite full. If you have scenes similar to the men’s Champions League final in mind: Everything is regulated, some spectators apparently just arrived quite late.
20:53
The hopes for the Danes rest primarily on the technically adept captain Pernille Harder, who occupies her regular place in the attack. Incidentally, not too many of the Scandinavians know the Bundesliga, the Holmgaard twins from Turbine Potsdam, who are sitting on the bench, are the only active ones. However, a few players know the German league from the past, above all ex-Wolfsburg player Pernille Harder.
20:49
The young Lena Oberdorf should keep the back of the more offensively oriented Däbritz and Magull free on the six. New Wolfsburg player Merle Frohms is in goal, while Lea Schüller from FC Bayern, who scored in the Bundesliga last season, should go hunting for goals with Huth and Bühl. A big question: how does the not-so-rehearsed back four around the long-injured Marina Hegering find their way into the tournament?
20:45
Compared to the 7-0 win against Switzerland in preparation, Voss-Tecklenburg has not made any changes, which is also due to the fact that Däbritz, who only returned to team training two days ago, can be in the starting XI. Svenja Huth slips the captain’s armband over his arm instead of Alexander Popp, who is sitting on the bench after surviving a corona infection.
20:37
The trainer Martina Voss-Tecklenburg looked at the first game of this tournament combatively: “It will be a big task for us, but we will put all our energy and will into the game.” The 54-year-old now had three years to prepare her team for the European Championship – thanks to Corona.
20:30
If you look at the history of the European title fights, the German team is of course strongly favoured. As a reminder: Germany won an impressive eight of twelve tournaments and has only lost three of their 40 games. But in order to win the ninth title, the Voss-Tecklenburg team has to improve significantly compared to the last few games. In February they lost to Canada (0-1) and England (1-3), in April to Serbia 2-3. After all, these bankruptcies are offset by clear victories over Portugal (3-0) and in preparation a breast-solver rumble against Switzerland (7-0), which gave hope. Hope that you can build on the strong qualification, in which you won eight games.
20:16
Tonight marks the start of what will hopefully be a long journey to the European Championships for the national team from Voss-Tecklenburg in England from a German perspective. In Group B, before the games against the Spanish team that won the first game (Tuesday, 9 p.m.) and the underdogs from Finland (Sat, July 16, 9 p.m.), the Danish team will face captain and star player Pernille Harder . This does not mean that the Germans are presented with an easy task. Because five years ago Denmark not only became vice European champions in the Netherlands (lost in the final against the home team), but eliminated the DFB team in the quarterfinals on the way there – not a nice memory…
20:00
Have a good Friday evening and a warm welcome to the opening game of the German national team! In group B of the women’s European Championship, the DFB-Elf meets the Danish team. Kick-off is scheduled for 9 p.m. in London’s Brentford district.