Germany v Poland: Women's Euro 2025
Date: 2025-07-04T18:01:28.000Z
Title: The teams
Content: Germany: Berger, Gwinn, Minge, Knaak, Linder, Senss, Nusken, Brand, Dallmann, Buehl, Schuller.Subs: Johannes, Hendrich, Wamser, Lohmann, Freigang, Dabritz, Zicai, Cerci, Kett, Hoffmann, Kleinherne, Mahmutovic.
Poland: Szemik, Matysik, Szymczak, Dudek, Wiankowska, Achcinska, Pawollek, Kamczyk, Tomasiak, Pajor, Padilla-Bidas.Subs: Radkiewicz, Zieniewicz, Wos, Mesjasz, Zawistowska, Grabowska, Kokosz, Jedlinska, Slowinska, Krezyman, Adamek, Seweryn.
Referee: Stephanie Frappart (France).
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Date: 2025-07-04T18:00:47.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: Germany are, by an absurd distance, the most successful team in Uefa Women's Euros history. They've won this championship (and its predecessor) eight times; Norway are next on the all-time list with two. Poland by comparison are making their tournament debut this evening. Then take the head-to-head record between these two countries: Germany 6, Poland 0, to an aggregate score of 28-3. As neighbourly rivalries go, it's a particularly lop-sided one.
But in football there's always hope, and here's Poland's: they're currently on an 11-match unbeaten run, a sequence that incorporates ten wins. Yay! The only problem is, just before they began that run last year, they were beaten home and away by … you can tell where this is heading, can't you … Germany. A 4-1 defeat away, a 3-1 loss at home. Oh, and Germany are on a five-game winning run of their own, having scored 24 goals in those matches. Which may explain why you can get odds of 33-1 on their winning this evening. So this should be a shoo-in for Germany, a chance to make a statement like Spain did last night. We'll find out whether the Frauenteam make good on that promise soon enough. Kick-off is at 8pm UK time. It's on!
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