Football European Championships 2025
Gwinn’s failure shocked footballers when winning against Poland
The German National Elf won its European Championships against Poland after a difficult start with 2-0. The injury -related substitution of captain Giulia Gwinn was bitter.
A knee injury, of all things, has overshadowed the European Championships of the German footballers in Captain Giulia Gwinn. The team of national coach Christian Wück was not able to look forward to the 2-0 (0: 0) against new tournament Poland. It is doubtful whether the star player from FC Bayern Munich can still participate in the tournament in Switzerland.
In front of 15,972 spectators in the St. Gallen arena – including 4,000 fans from Germany – the eight -time European champion had a hard time. A dream goal by Jule Brand (52nd minute) and a header from Lea Schüller (66th) then redeemed the battered DFB selection.
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Gwinn had led the German national team on the lawn at a highlight of the season as a captain. Then the shock followed in the 36th minute: In a rescue operation against Ewa Pajor, her knee crashed into that of Poland’s top scorer.
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Gwinn came back to the pitch briefly, but then limped from the lawn based on a supervisor. With a face of pain and tears, she had to be replaced – Gwinn has already had two cruciate ligament tears. After the second time, she also missed the 2023 World Cup in Australia due to the long regeneration. A timely diagnosis should result in a timely MRI examination, said a DFB spokeswoman.
Immediately before the kick -off, Wück in the ARD emphasized with anticipation and optimism: “The conditions are absolutely great. There will be no excuses.” At his tournament premiere with the DFB women, the 52-year-old chose the same line-up as with the furious 4: 0 in Bremen against the Netherlands.
The nervousness of the DFB women ran throughout the first half
In the tens position, he again trusted Linda Dallmann from FC Bayern, which was recently strong. The experienced Sarai Linder from VfL Wolfsburg preferred the experienced Sarai Linder from VfL Wolfsburg before the 20-year-old Munich-based Munich Franziska Kett.
Poland Pajor from FC Barcelona appeared dangerously in the German penalty area after ten seconds, but her cross was started. The DFB women know the long-time Wolfsburg woman in the best possible way-the respect for the two-time Bundesliga goalkeeper was accordingly great, who mostly dealt with Rebecca Knaak.
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The nervousness of the DFB women stretched through the entire first half: too many balls were unnecessarily lost to the deeply standing Polishes. Only a shot of wing flasher Brand After 24 minutes, goalkeeper Kinga Szemik had to steer around the post. The DFB women were lucky that the Polish women were just offside with two promising counterattacks.
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According to Gwinn’s failure, the future Leverkusener Carlotta Wamser came as a right -back. Defense chief Janina Minge took over the rainbow bandage. After the change, the German women shook a lot and played braver, more liberated and much more powerful.
A remarkable shot from fire from 17 meters lowered the net for 1-0. A flank from Brand then headed Schüller in her typical way to 2-0 – it was already her 53rd goal in the 76th international. Before that, Sjoeke Nüsken could have already made the second goal with a header from a short distance.
Most likely without gwinn, the Wück team will continue on Tuesday (6 p.m.) in Basel against Denmark. Four days later there is a possible group summit in Zurich when it comes to Sweden. The World Cup thirds of 2019 and 2023 won their opening game 1-0 against Denmark.
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Tis / Ulrike John and David Joram
Source: Stern
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