Germany’s footballers also won their second group game at the European Championship in Switzerland. The team of national coach Christian Wück defeated Denmark 2-1 (0: 1) on Tuesday evening in Basel and thus qualified prematurely for the quarter -finals.
Because after the DFB-Equipe, Sweden also won his second game against Poland 3-0, the record European champion in Teamhotel was allowed to cheer the jump into the round of the last eight. The marmot greeted against Denmark. As already in the opening game against Poland (2-0), the Wück team turned out in section one after the change of sides, after the change of sides, and thus decided the game.
“I count on the team incredibly high as it came back and how much sake and commitment she showed to win this game”said the 52-year-old in the Sportschau interview. The injured captain Giulia Gwinn also has a lot of proportion in the “mentality victory”, according to the national coach: “She wrote us moving words before the game. It was clear to me that the team would try to win the game for her.”
Sjoeke Nüsken by penalty (56th) and Lea Schüller (66th) were successful in front of 34,165 spectators – including at least 17,000 German fans – for the tournament with favorite. Amalie Vangsgaard had given Denmark in the lead (26th). The Scandinavians now have to hope for Poland’s success against Sweden in order to have opportunities to get on.
Denmark surprises DFB women with a tactical change
As expected, Wück had only a change in the starting eleven compared to the opening game. For the injured captain Giulia Gwinn, Carlotta Wamser moved into the team, who had made her cause formidable after her substitution in the first European Championship game. Denmark even started with the same eleven players against Sweden (0-1) last Friday. But very to the surprise of the DFB team with a different tactical orientation.
Because instead of in the defensive 5-3-2 system, coach Andrée Jeglertz sent his team on the lawn in a more offensive 3-4-3 formation. It wasn’t “Danish Dynamite” what the Scandinavians delivered in the first section. But at least the Jeglertz team radiated far more danger in the forward movement than against Sweden.
In addition, the Danes generated some ball wins through the previous start, after which they quickly switched and came to degrees. In short: Denmark posed problems with Germany, was a real test stone.
Varies German gate and penalty
Wück could not be satisfied at the break. On the one hand, because, as in half one one against Poland, his team played a little too complicated and did not make enough work in the last third of the field. On the other hand, because the record European champion was unlucky twice with the video referee.
It was called Alen Borošak and first reported in the 18th minute after Klara Bühl supposedly put the DFB team in the lead with a shot from 20 meters. But the VRA had looked at the scene on its screens several times and noticed that Nüsken had been offside at Bühl’s degree. Accordingly, referee Catarina Campos decided on free kick for Denmark instead of hits for Germany.
Klara Bühl’s gate (right) to 1-0 was collected by the Var.
Shortly before the break, the referee from Portugal and the video assistant from Slovenia were the focus a second time. This time Campos had chosen the DFB team after a handball by Frederikke Skjødt Thøgersen. And again she hadn’t looked exactly enough. Because the defense campaign had taken place shortly before the penalty area, so there was only free kick instead of a penalty. The standard fizzled out.
Denmark lays Germans Defenses open
At that time, Germany was already 0: 1 behind. Vangsgaard had benefited from a whole chain of errors at the DFB team in the 26th minute. At first Linda Dallmann undergone a bad pass, then the Schüller hurried back involuntarily played the ball into the feet of the Danish. And keeper Ann-Katrin Berger cut into the short corner when the striker of Juventus Turin was shot.
Amalie Vangsgaard (right) put Denmark in the lead.
The goal gave Germany completely out of the concept. Denmark came to two further grades through Pernille Harder (28th) and Janni Thomsen (29th). Wück could not like the withdrawal and duel behavior of his eleven.
In possession of the ball, the DFB women were very hard-working and showed some good approaches. The final pass and the end were the big shortcoming before the break.
Nüsken compensates for a penalty
As against Poland, Germany increased the number of strokes against Denmark after the change of sides. And after Bühl and Wamser had failed in a quick succession to Maja Bay Östergaard (51st), shortly afterwards the goalkeeper defeated the goalkeeper from the point.
This was preceded by a new speech by Borošak. This time the video referee had looked very closely at a duel by Katrine Veje against Dallmann and saw how the Danish player had pulled her leg away. The Slovenian was just right with this assessment, even if the foul was unintentionally committed.
Schüller meets Danish help
The compensation also inspired the Wück team. And after a lot of bad luck in half one, the DFB selection still had a lot of Fortune. Because the Danish women also helped with the second goal. This time even in an equally curious and painful manner: Emma Faerge stretched out with a relief from Emma Snerle, from whose head the ball landed at Jule Brand, the Schüller staged. With a left -wing shot, the center forwarder provided the 2-1, which was now deserved.
Just four minutes later, the Munich native should have increased free -standing, but gave this chance miserably. A “booth” and a “ticket” – everything like against Poland at Schüller. Keeper Berger was also greeted by the marmot when she saved Signe Bruun in the 78th minute. In the opening game, the 34-year-old also shone in the final phase.
Afterwards, however, the goalkeeper was no longer seriously checked, so that it remains with the narrow German success. Speaking of remaining: The DFB team would be too happy to stay in Basel. After all, the St. Jakob Park is also the venue for the European Championship final. However, the way there leads to the coming Saturday (9 p.m., live on ZDF) via Zurich, where the third group game against Sweden is on the program. “We want to be a group first, we are now focusing on the focus,” said Nüsken in the sports show interview.