{"id":808878,"date":"2026-03-06T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/808878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:13:13","slug":"womens-world-cup-qualifiers-preview-norway-vs-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/808878\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s World Cup Qualifiers Preview: Norway vs. Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eskender Tamrat<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/eskeFussball\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:100%;color:#1da1f2;\" rel=\"noopener\">@eskeFussball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany Women\u2019s National team continue their quest to qualify for the 2027 World Cup with a tricky fixture away at Norway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15503.jpg\" alt=\"Article image\"\/><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"zypor_creative_linktext\">Thomas Eisenhuth\/Getty Images<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Norway host Germany on Saturday night as the Women\u2019s World Cup qualifying campaign continues in Europe. Both teams won their opening fixtures in Group A4.<\/p>\n<p>Germany produced a five-star performance against Slovenia as they recovered from their Nations League final defeat to Spain. Manchester United\u2019s Lisa Naalsund scored Norway\u2019s late goal in the win over Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Germany are unbeaten in their last five games against Norway. Their most recent meetup was a friendly staged in Wiesbaden in 2021. DFB-Frauen came back from a goal behind to win 3-1 on that occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Christian W\u00fcck could repeat his starting lineup from Monday after convincing performances from everyone involved in the game. Slovenia entertain Austria in the other game of the group on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted Lineups<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norway: <\/strong>Fiskerstrand; Blakstad, Harviken, Engen, Hansen; Maanum, B\u00f8e Risa, Naalsund; Gaupset, Hegerberg \u00a9, Graham<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germany:<\/strong> Berger; Gwinn \u00a9, K\u00fcver, Knaak, Kett; Sen\u00df, N\u00fcsken; Dallmann; Brand, Martinez, Endemann<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eskender Tamrat@eskeFussball Germany Women\u2019s National team continue their quest to qualify for the 2027 World Cup with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-808878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116184770498871211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808878","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=808878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}