Between suspension for 25 minutes of the game due to a thunderstorm With a tremendous storm of water, a goal disallowed for each team due to the VAR review, the chances of both teams and a fortuitous penalty that clarified everything, Germany passed the test, defeated Denmark and advanced to the quarterfinals. of Euro 2024, pending its next challenge: Spain or Georgia.
A triumph climbed on a roller coasterwhich started brilliantly and impressively. Then it lost strength to resolve everything in the second half, driven by Andersen’s handball that was detected by the VAR and decreed by the referee. Michael Oliver in the penalty that he converted into 1-0 Kai Havertz and definitively launched towards the classification by Jamal Musiala’s 2-0.
Germany would do no good to become too content. It is not a perfect machine. It doesn’t even come close. At times, he appears to be. He seems overwhelming. It’s ‘his’ Euro Cup. He knows it and he transmits it.. It’s his opportunity. He feels it and shows it. Afterwards, she suffers. Like almost all the selections. When Denmark settled, as soon as they endured the beginning against the ropes, resistant to a succession of chances in 10 minutes, they showed that the German team is also a vulnerable team. He could be beaten, but he didn’t.
Germany felt fear when Neuer He saved it on the brink of half-time. Or, above all, when Andersen scored a goal after a scramble in the area, in the 48th minute.. The VAR corrected it. As if it were a goal, the celebration of the unprecedented majority in the stands of the Signal Iduna Park was amazing. Moments later, the video referee detected Andersen’s hand in the other area. The referee pointed it out between the help of the monitor, the ball sensor and a clear image. Kai Havertz converted the maximum penalty. Minute 53.
Germany’s start exceeded expectations. Denmark was hit by a storm. They weathered it. A football storm contained by Schmeichel’s saves and, above all, by the controversial decision of the referee and the VAR, when they ruled that the header of the goal was disallowed. Nico Schlotterbeckwho jumped more than anyone else, while Ilkay Gundogan was a hindrance to the Danish goalkeeper. The controversy lies in whether his influence was that great.
Only three minutes and 19 seconds. Denmark had not yet left its territory. Nor did it do so until some time later. The German possession forced it into its area. The pressure disconnected it at every exit.. Schmeichel volleyed a shot from Kroos, was quick to repel another header from Schlotterbeck when he realized that he was going in and rejected a volley from Havertz, between his hands and face, in an unacademic, but effective way. Enough.
Ten minutes, three shots, four corner kicks (Germany finished them all) and a disallowed goal. Untill there. Denmark held. And he got up. Their best news was the 0-0 with which the game went through all the turbulence of the German arson. With Germany’s revolutions lowered, the Danish team even dared to attack, with Andersen’s tremendous long cross and Eriksen’s perfect control. Rudiger’s crossing was even more so, more than ready. The whole meeting was wonderful.
A sign for Denmark. A warning for Germany, even more so when Maehle tried to score inside the area. To the side of the net. The game was different. Maehle again, knocked to the edge from the shot by Andrich. Eriksen’s foul hit the barrier. The sky over Dortmund was already thundering when a huge electrical storm broke out that put everything in doubt.
Minute 35. The duel is suspended. 25 minute wait. The players in their rooms. More than 60,000 fans in the stands, under a torrent of water, with waterfalls in some sectors and the thunderous noise of electric shocks, waiting for news, for the return to action at around ten at night, with two more occasions from Germany and with the saving appearance of New Ante Hojlundin an unstoppable Danish counterattack.
Another warning. The umpteenth for Germany, diluted from the tenth minute onwards, without the control that they like so much of the ball, without the connection that Musiala needs so much, lost in dribbling for nothing, without the sharp passes of Toni Kroos…Without any of what they had shown in their first offensive, supported by Rudiger and Neuer suddenly, relieved when the referee blew for half-time, aware that progressing to the quarter-finals required much more.
He survived, thanks to the VAR, Andersen’s goal, 0-1 in the 48th minute, due to a millimetric offside. And he resurfaced, thanks to the VAR, due to a handball by Andersen himself in a cross from the side. Michael Oliver reviewed it on the monitor, paying attention to the sound range of the ball sensor, although the image was already more than clear, with the hand off. Fortuitous, yes. Penalty, too. Havertz launched it perfectly, so tight, unreachable for Schmeichel.
💥 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗧!
📌 Kai Havertz’s goal from the penalty spot.
🖐️ The penalty was awarded after a cross from Raum that hit Andersen’s hand.#EURO2024
— Golden Goal ⚽ (@_goldeoro_es) June 29, 2024
Then, Havertz, a scorer always in doubt, a footballer who moves much better between the lines than in the definition, iInfinitely better, he forgave the 2-0. A portrait of the lack of punch of Germany’s starting striker in this Euro Cup, with Füllkrug on the bench. As was the next action, but in reverse. He did everything perfectly to give the goal to Sané. His partner’s failure was incredible. An extra life for Denmark.
It was definitively taken away by Musiala, who does not lack tact. No goal. Neuer intervened before to repel the 1-1. Afterwards, the phenomenal German footballer already influenced Denmark’s defensive concessions, unattainable in his career, incontestable in his definition, to launch Germany into the quarterfinals. Spain or Georgia.
Datasheet:
Germany, 2: new; Kimmich, Rudiger, Schlotterbeck, Raum (Heinrichs, m. 80); Kroos, Andrich (Emre Can, m. 64); Musiala (Wirtz, m. 80), Gundogan (Füllkrug, m. 64), Sané (Waldemar Anton, m. 87); Havertz.
Denmark, 0: Schmeichel; Andersen, Vestergaard, Christensen (Bruun Larsen, m. 82); Bah (Kristiansen, m. 81), Delaney (Norgaard, m. 69), Hojbjerg, Maehle; Skov Olsen (Poulsen, m. 69), Eriksen; Hojlund.
Goals: 1-0, m. 53: Havertz, de penali. 2-0, m. 68: Musiala.
Referee: Michael Oliver (England) gave yellow cards to Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand in the 41st minute and to Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann in the 60th minute. Among the players, he gave yellow cards to Denmark’s Bah (m. 57) and Maehle (m. 61).
Incidents: match corresponding to the round of 16 of Euro 2024 played at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund in front of around 60,000 spectators.
2024-06-29 21:36:52
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