eventually drawing 5-5.<\/a><\/p>\nAnd their semi-final in Bucharest was even more memorable – as they fell 6-5 in extra time.<\/p>\n
Real Betis’ Pablo Garcia scored four goals for Spain – including two in stoppage time and the winner two minutes from the end of extra time.<\/p>\n
Hoffenheim’s Max Moerstedt scored a hat-trick for Germany but it was not enough.<\/p>\n
Moerstedt and Garcia exchanged goals – with Spain’s Antonio Cordero having a penalty saved in between. Then Said El Mala gave Germany a 2-1 lead with 12 minutes to go.<\/p>\n
Only three of the game’s 11 goals were scored inside 90 minutes as Garcia netted twice in second-half stoppage time to put Spain on the brink of the final – but then calamity struck.<\/p>\n
Germany pumped a long free-kick up the pitch which flew over the Spain keeper’s head before Andres Cuenca inexplicably put it into his own empty net in the ninth minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Tomas Marques made it 4-3 to Spain in extra time with Moerstedt netting twice to put Germany 5-4 ahead.<\/p>\n
But Jan Virgili levelled and then Garcia rounded the goalkeeper to tuck in his fourth goal and give Spain a famous win.<\/p>\n
Germany go home with a record of 12 goals scored and 15 goals conceded in four games – while Spain have scored 15 and conceded six.<\/p>\n
The defending champions will meet hosts Romania or the Netherlands in Thursday’s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany Under-19s played out their second game with double-figure goals in the space of six days – but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-209086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114735690735545663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}