{"id":241529,"date":"2025-07-06T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241529\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:50:12","slug":"match-awards-from-germanys-2-0-win-over-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241529\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Awards from Germany\u2019s 2-0 win over Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jersey Swap: Ewa Pajor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A familiar foe for Bayern Munich fans, the former VfL Wolfsburg sensation and current FC Barcelona star showed up to play. Pajor did not have the chance to do much, but whenever she saw an opening, she gave the Germany defense fits. In the end, she was unlucky not to score at least once. Pajor is the kind of player who looks poised at any moment to take over and completely change a game, even if it is out of nowhere \u2014 as she nearly did in the 81st minute with a towering header (keep in mind that she is all of 5\u20196) between two German defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Der Kaiser: Ann-Katrin Berger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shot-stopper for the NWSL\u2019s Gotham FC showed up big when her team needed to. Poland only had two recorded shots on target \u2014 but it felt like more than that. Berger\u2019s point-blank save on Pajor\u2019s header that threatened to bring life to the waning moments of the game was superb, and the Germans should have real confidence knowing a keeper of her quality is in between the sticks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fu\u00dfballgott: Sjoeke N\u00fcsken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s pivots shared the play-making load with their fullbacks and wingers, neither getting close to recording the passes and touches of the two center-backs. However, they picked their moments to shine. <a href=\"https:\/\/weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chelsea FC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chelsea FC<\/a>\u2019s N\u00fcsken showed off her prowess both going forward and tracking back. It was her recovery run and tackle on Pajor late that spared yet another Polish threat of late drama, and her narrowly missed open header in the 61st minute \u2014 which she really should have buried \u2014 belied what was a savvy run to ghost by defenders in the box and latch on to Klara B\u00fchl\u2019s cross. She also found herself in the right place, right time to smash a volley at Kinga Szemik\u2019s goal from range, and it was not a bad effort. Her scoring moment will surely come in this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Der Bomber: Klara B\u00fchl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FC Bayern winger did not get on the scoresheet but it sure was not for lack of trying. Two minutes after her missed connection with N\u00fcsken, she laid one on a platter for club teammate Lea Sch\u00fcller, only to see the header blaze over the bar. B\u00fchl was simply too much for her defenders to handle, supplying a leading six key passes and creating two \u2018big\u2019 chances, per Sofascore. Big game B\u00fchl lived up to her nickname.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote\">\n<p>Klara B\u00fchl vs Poland | #WEURO2025 B\u00fchl was absolutely relentless all game. She kept running at the fullback and attacking the box consistently, making penetrative runs and creating chances with her crossing 11 progressive carries (most) 6 chances created (most) Big stage B\u00fchl<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 Yash (@odriozolite.bsky.social) 2025-07-04T22:30:51.840Z<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Meisterin of the Match: Jule Brand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who else? For all of the Germans\u2019 control over the game they had trouble breaking down a fairly resolute Polish defense, and there were just enough breakaway opportunities the other way to turn the match in a very different direction. In the end, individual quality won out, Brand finding space and hitting a strike of positively stupendous quality to break the deadlock early in the second half:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote\">\n<p>This was SOME strike from Jule Brand ( #VfL \u27a1\ufe0f #OL ) to open the scoring for #GERPOL #WEURO2025 #GermanWNT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 Bavarian Football Works (@bavarianfbworks.bsky.social) 2025-07-04T20:58:16.193Z<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That goal looks even better on the slow-mo replay, by the way: she absolutely launches it and it rockets into the top corner. And of course, it was Brand who supplied the delivery on Lea Sch\u00fcller\u2019s goal for Germany\u2019s second.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The long-time Wolfsburg star is moving to Lyon this summer. Big things have long been expected of her and this tournament is a perfect stage to make that happen. On Friday night she looked well on her way.<\/p>\n<p>More from bavarianfootballworks.com:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey Swap: Ewa Pajor A familiar foe for Bayern Munich fans, the former VfL Wolfsburg sensation and current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[93942,1062,6274,2000,299,93941,6537,1824,88294,770,93940],"class_list":{"0":"post-241529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-ann-katrin-berger","9":"tag-bayern-munich","10":"tag-chelsea-fc","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-ewa-pajor","14":"tag-fc-barcelona","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-jule-brand","17":"tag-poland","18":"tag-vfl-wolfsburg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114803783947889824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241529","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=241529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}