Jule Model scored one aim and arrange the opposite to steer Germany to a 2-0 win over debutant Poland of their Ladies’s European Championship opening sport on Friday.
Germany, the eight-time champion, wanted endurance in opposition to the hard-tackling and dedicated Poland gamers, however Model made essentially the most of a lapse in focus when she minimize inside two defenders to interrupt the impasse within the 52nd minute.
The winger then despatched in a cross for Lea Schüller to seal the outcome with a header within the 66th.
Germany misplaced captain Giulia Gwinn to harm late within the first half after she made a determined problem to cease Ewa Pajor from scoring.
Pajor, the Poland captain, was her crew’s largest risk and may need leveled the rating within the sixty fourth after she despatched a German defender flying, just for Germany goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger to face agency in opposition to her centrally positioned shot.
Berger later produced an excellent reflex save to cease Pajor’s header.
Like Poland, Berger was making her competitors debut. The 34-year-old Germany goalkeeper missed the earlier event and later stated she was identified with most cancers for the second time. On Friday she turned Germany’s oldest participant at a European Championship.
Berger was the busier of the 2 goalkeepers as Poland’s central defensive partnership of Paulina Dudek and Emilia Szymczak stored the pacey German forwards in examine.
Germany vs. Poland UEFA Ladies’s Euro 2025 Highlights | FOX Soccer
Dudek didn’t reemerge for the second half, nonetheless, presumably due to an harm, and Model took it as an invite to steer her crew to a profitable begin.
Germany is in search of its first main title since profitable its eighth European Championship in 2013. It went shut on the final version, dropping to host England 2-1 after additional time within the 2022 closing.
Sweden defeated Denmark within the different Group C match earlier, 1-0.
Reporting by The Related Press.
Need nice tales delivered proper to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports activities account, observe leagues, groups and gamers to obtain a personalised e-newsletter day by day!
UEFA Ladies’s EURO
Get extra from UEFA Ladies’s EURO Observe your favorites to get details about video games, information and extra
Support Greater and Subscribe to view content
This is premium stuff. Subscribe to read the entire article.
