{"id":209931,"date":"2025-06-24T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209931\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:44:09","slug":"u19-euro-spain-beats-germany-in-11-goal-thriller-to-set-up-final-against-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209931\/","title":{"rendered":"U19 EURO: Spain beats Germany in 11-goal thriller to set up final against Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain edged Germany 6\u20135 after extra-time on Monday, reaching the European Under-19 Championship final after a dramatic clash in Bucharest in which eight goals were scored after the 78th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Real Betis winger Pablo Garcia was Spain\u2019s hero in a semifinal that turned from a 2\u20131 Germany lead with 12 minutes of regulation time left into an 11-goal extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia\u2019s fourth goal of the night \u2013 which came seconds before the final whistle \u2013 finally settled a contest after three stoppage time goals had taken the game to extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The Germans will be left wondering how they are leaving the tournament despite Hoffenheim striker Max Moerstedt\u2019s impressive hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, the defending champion, will face the Netherlands in Thursday\u2019s final after it defeated host Romania 3-1 on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain edged Germany 6\u20135 after extra-time on Monday, reaching the European Under-19 Championship final after a dramatic clash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,83923,299,8641,83925,104,83924,6924],"class_list":{"0":"post-209931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-euro-u19-semifinals","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-football-news","12":"tag-netherlands-vs-romania-u19-euro-semifinals","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-spain-vs-germany-u19-euro-semifinals","15":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114737464277420953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209931","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=209931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}