77' 1-0 Spain subs in (3 of 3) #18 Aitana Bonmati for #11 Alexia Putellas. 78' 1-0 Lucia García nutmegs Schweers (with great effort) at box top wide left, but then lunges after ball and stomps Däbritz's right ankle. 80' 1-0 Germany subs in (3 of 3) #18 Melanie Leupolz for #8 Lena Goeßling.
I “live” over in BSMX for the most part. I’ll honor your request by saying that I still love you. And I wish nothing but the best for your team. Surely, you got tickets right? Not to derail but I noticed this weekend that little Iwabuchi is all grown up now. Wow.
82' 1-0 Now it's Germany with many pings, as Spain tire of chasing long kicks. Hegering runs on at arc top left, shoots right instep but drags it wide left low. 83' 1-0 Lucia García receives a through-ball at arc top mid-right, rides off two challenges and stays upright down mid-right to 9m. Soft cross rolls to 7m center, nobody is making that run, Schult comes out and falls on it. This is Spain: can't short-pass in the box when nobody's already there. 85' 1-0 Chippy play (just torso contact, no fisticuffs yet) is now allowed to proceed all over the field 87' 1-0 Germany sustain pressure in Spain's box, have considerably more energy left. Cross from mid-right to 9m 1/3 left, Bühl heads down to Paños at goalline.
I knew it, but it's good to hear you saying it! Now, it's "my teams": although much behind Japan, I am following Italy NT with great sympathy. Captive at work for most part of the tournament, so I couldn't get the long holyday in France I was wishing for (if only they had scheduled the tournament in July instead of June! ), but I've been in Paris this monday to watch Argentina-Japan.
89' 1-0 Marta slips a diagonal pass to Nahikari at 13m mid-right, she runs self into Hegering and sprawls down -- no call. Marta interposes body and regains, goes down box right and banks ball off Schweers(?) for a corner. 90' 1-0 Paredes fk at circle back right, R1 warns Huth to give space. Paños comes up to take it, long to 15m 6-left, headed away. +3'.
It seems like the VAR refs are trying to make up, in this match, for their earlier mistake in Spain's first match.
90+2' (of +3') 1-0 L.García chases ball down at 10m mid-right, wins a corner. 90+2' (of +3') 1-0 Hermoso right ck, cleared to 14m mid-left. Bonmati touches back to 16m 6-left, shoots right instep, blocked to 0.5m 6-left and Schult comes out and dives on it. 90+4' (of +3') 1-0 Magull fk at 25m wide left, short tap left, Popp goes to left corner flag. FT 1-0. Spain couldn't create a goal, and got worn down by their own activity. Germany created a bunch of chances, and missed them all.
For what I've seen, it wouldn't have been a scandal if this game had ended in a draw, but Germany manages to squeeze in another win. You can't always win 13-0, but frankly I was unimpressed by Germany's unprolific performances so far. Now China-Spain (assuming China beats South Africa) becomes quite interesting.
Spain simply can't take their chances, they just hesitate when chances comes rather than at least try to shoot. Glad to see Dabritz scores.
Guess he meant 1-0 (vs China) + 1-0 (vs Spain), but at first I was confused too. In fact overall Germany didn't impress in any of those matches.
Spain are the most frustrating team to watch. Classy passing and flicks but absolutely zero end product. I always watch their games as a neutral and then end up completely annoyed
Late sub Patri Gujiarro could have been that player, but she picked up an injury before the tournament and, although she's back, she's not 100% healthy, I guess.
Well, I was impressed with your home team this weekend. I rooted for them hard until I realized that are in my team’s group. Next Tuesday’s match will more anticipated than I ever expected. I think Japan will give England a good match. I told people this group was tougher than it looks on paper. Oh, and back on thread topic: Germany looks rather pedestrian despite all the talent and experienced manager...
The goal: The hero for #GER today is Sara Däbritz, a midfielder for Bayern Munich. Here was her game-winning goal!#GERESP | 1-0 | #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/PLTH0xpAYj— The Equalizer (@EqualizerSoccer) June 12, 2019 Wow, Germany's post-match coverage just had the most brutal replay of the goal sequence, with players' running paths highlighted with dashed lines, Popp's sneaky lateral separation from Parades' back shown with a double-arrow, and Marta's sight cone drawn in red, pointing directly goalward and not at Däbritz Someday this will be a PowerPoint presentation --