The players of Nina Patalon take the lead in group C on a par with Sweden. Captain Giulia Gwinn, however, was released on injury.
Germany launched its Euro football with a 2-0 victory over Poland on Friday in Saint-Gall (Switzerland), thanks to two goals from Jule Brand and Lea Schüller, but lost injury to his captain Giulia Gwinn. The bronze medalists of the Olympic Games 2024, in search since 2013 of a ninth continental title since 2013, take the lead in group C at the same height as the Swedes, who beat Denmark a little earlier on a more narrow score (1-0).
The Germans, unhappy finalists of Euro 2022 won by the English, had the opportunity to respond to the thunderous entry into Spain on Thursday against Portugal (5-0), confirming its status as a big favorite. But for their first final phase of one euro, the Poles seemed for almost an hour capable of creating the feat, or at least to neutralize their prestigious neighbor, however arrived with the impressive report of 24 goals in five successes this year.
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With impeccable solidarity, folded on their cage from the loss of the ball, the players of Nina Patalon have endeavored to prick themselves against with Ewa Pajor, imperial this season with FC Barcelona (43 goals), but sometimes too lonely imprecise on Friday. It took an individual feat of Jule Brand, hitherto as muzzled as his teammates, to unlock the match: from a limpid strike from the left, full skylight, unclogged from the entrance to the surface, the 22-year-old Lyonnaise recruit left Kinga Szemik (1-0, 52nd).
Giulia Gwinn hit in the left knee
In a second more unbridled period, where the players of Christian Wück offered more sharp calls, Lea Schüller doubled the putting on the head of a long center from the right, still from Jule Brand (2-0, 66th), offering himself at only 27 years a 53rd goal in selection. The German evening is however tarnished by the exit in the 40th minute of the right side and captain Giulia Gwinn, obviously affected in the left knee after a defensive intervention against Ewa Pajor.
Bayern player, icon in Germany, tried to resume the meeting before going out in tears, emblacess by Lea Schüller. At just 26 years old, Gwinn has already broken the cross ligaments of the two knees, missing for this reason the 2023 World Cup. The Germans had been eliminated during the group stage of this competition, a failure far from their standard, and present themselves this summer in Switzerland with a rejuvenated and Revanchard group.
