As always, Germany came into the tournament as one of the favorites for the title. The eight-time champions will aim to get back into winning ways after failing to win back-to-back European championships for the first time since 1987.<\/p>\n
There will be two Scandinavian teams in Germany\u2019s group with Sweden, the winners of the first edition, and Denmark seeded alongside the most successful team in the Women\u2019s Euros. Denmark knocked out Germany in the 2017 quarter-finals on their way to reaching the final for the very first time.<\/p>\n
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Their first test will be one of the two tournament debutants, however. This is the first major competition for the Polish women’s football team after they beat Austria in the playoff.<\/p>\n
Germany lost the final to hosts England three years ago, and Christian W\u00fcck picked 11 players from that squad for his first tournament as their coach. Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, a four-time European champion as a player, was the coach in the 2023 edition.<\/p>\n
In his brief spell with the women\u2019s team, Horst Hrubesch led Germany to a bronze medal in last year\u2019s Olympics. Germany last won a major women\u2019s football competition in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, which will be the host nation for the World Cup in two years.<\/p>\n
Team News<\/strong><\/p>\n 26-year-old fullback Giulia Gwinn is the captain of the German women’s team. The most-capped player in the squad, Sara D\u00e4britz, is one of the only four players currently plying their trade outside Germany.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Lena Oberdorf\u2019s absence through injury\/fitness is the biggest news in the squad selection since she won the best young player award in Euro 2022. Alexandra Popp retired from international football after the Paris Olympics. This season\u2019s Bundesliga top-scorer, Nicole Anyomi, will also miss the tournament due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n Including Weronika Zawistowska, who won the double with Bayern Munich this season, there are six German-based players in Poland\u2019s squad. Former Wolfsburg striker Ewa Pajor captains the side after her remarkable debut season at FC Barcelona.<\/p>\n Tournament Recap<\/strong><\/p>\n Finland won their first women\u2019s Euros game since 2009 with a narrow victory over Iceland, who finished the game with 10 women, in the opening game of the tournament. Katariina Kosola scored the winner with a beautiful curler.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n In the same group, Ada Hegerberg led Norway\u2019s comeback victory against hosts Switzerland. The first Ballon d’Or F\u00e9minin winner missed a penalty-kick, but it didn\u2019t matter in the end as she scored Norway\u2019s opener in a hard-fought 2-1 win.<\/p>\n 16 teams will compete for the big prize in the 14th edition of the UEFA Women’s Championship. The final will be played at the St. Jakob Park on 27th July.<\/p>\n Germany v Poland: Predicted lineups<\/p>\n Germany: Berger; Linder, Knaak, Minge, Gwinn; N\u00fcsken, Sen\u00df; B\u00fchl, Dallmann, Brand; Sch\u00fcller<\/p>\n Poland: Szemik; Zieniewicz, Wo\u015b, Dudek, Wiankowska; Achci\u0144ska, Pawollek, Kamczyk; Tomasiak, Padilla, Pajor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As always, Germany came into the tournament as one of the favorites for the title. The eight-time champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[91108,88287,1062,91713,365,2000,299,6537,91712,91711,1824,88289,88292,88288,1115,770,812,2600,11385,76964,91710],"class_list":{"0":"post-234108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-ada-hegerberg","9":"tag-alexandra-popp","10":"tag-bayern-munich","11":"tag-dallmann","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-fc-barcelona","16":"tag-football-competition","17":"tag-football-team","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-giulia-gwinn","20":"tag-lena-oberdorf","21":"tag-nicole-anyomi","22":"tag-norway","23":"tag-poland","24":"tag-sweden","25":"tag-switzerland","26":"tag-team-news","27":"tag-wolfsburg","28":"tag-womens-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114788106501099256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234108","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=234108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}