While Spain have played expansive, possession-based football throughout Euro 2025, it has been a different story for Germany.<\/p>\n
Forced to be defensive against France after Kathrin Hendrich was sent off in the 13th minute, they finished their quarter-final having had just 25.6% possession.<\/p>\n
Such a level was lower than usual for Germany, but even in games where the dynamics are different they have not focused as much on holding the ball.<\/p>\n
Spain have averaged 73.5% possession, the most of any side at Euro 2025, while Germany have averaged 53.6%, the sixth-most.<\/p>\n
Spain’s passing accuracy – along with number of passes into the final third and total passes – are also the best of any team at the competition.<\/p>\n
One average, they have created the third-highest number of big chances, while Germany are ranked 10th.<\/p>\n
Germany manager Christian Wuck said his side “will suffer” and have limited possession on Wednesday, but they will work to “find the right moments”. <\/p>\n
His side’s best chance is to find ways to attack on the break, but they will probably have to endure lots of time without the ball.<\/p>\n
“I think everyone knows the Spanish players,” Wuck said. “They play the same sort of football, short passes. I think we will chase them a lot, we won’t have a lot of possession and we will suffer but we have to find the right moments and to take advantage of the right moments to push our game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Spain have played expansive, possession-based football throughout Euro 2025, it has been a different story for Germany.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-283180","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\/114898301312591938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283180","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=283180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}