Lol, I hadn't caught the reference so I googled that and... well, If I had been actually drinking a coffee I would have spilled it all around! I just checked and poor Verena Aschauer is just 23! Let's just say that... she looks more grown-up than her real age!
Another major injury, this time for Denmark: Jensen out, Junge Pedersen in. It was already third change for Denmark, with 20 minuted still to play (don't remember, actually, who exactly the other changes were).
Poor Manuela Zinsberger has now a sign on her beautiful cheek (and not from a kiss: it was Larsen's head on her face, actually). 5 minutes of additional time, before extra-time is called.
Extra-time is declared. Like the other day, I am going to miss most of it, so I can eat and not miss Netherlands-England later. This time, though, I am not as sure that nothing will happen in extra-time as I was for the Austria-Spain match.
replacing Puntigam, what a dumb move, she's been winning most of her tackles. let's see Austria try to win balls without her
096' 0-0 Harder spin-and-drives up left touch past midfield, Zadrazil "attempts to swap shirts before the end of the game" to the pbp guy. Yellow card on Zadrazil -- Harder was beating two on the dribble, so Zadrazil wasn't last defender? The shirt-pull slows both of them down enough for the other defender to run past them both
105' 0-0 Harder side-heads across 6-top, Denmark turn-and-shoot high. Many, many tired shots over both bars. (My fingers typed "tiered shots", and that might actually be more correct ) I think all players tend to rush shots and shoot early, which results in volleys going high. Men do it too, e.g. when a relatively small nation like Ecuador overachieves and makes it into the QFs. It takes ice water in the veins to wait another half-beat for the ball to fall further along its parabola and meet your foot. 110' 0-0 Prohaska steps to ball in a void at 15m 6-left, one-touch shot sails ... high
114' 0-0 Hansen dink pass from arc top to Veje at 12m 1/3 left, she knocks ball down into wheelhouse, right roundhouse goes -- high Don't rush the volley, wait wait --
Well, we were wrong: PK, after all. Let's see if Zinsberger wins again, despite the sign on her cheek!
120' 0-0 Denmark (Veje?) right ck, Harder cuts to 5m right post and drills a rocket header -- wide right. Exhausted in her torso/core, could will the legs to run and jump but had nothing left to twist. +1'. 120+1' (of +1') 0-0 Austria counter to box top left, bad clang rolls harmlessly over endline left. 120+1' (of +1') 0-0 Denmark subs in (4 of 3+1 ) #14 Nicoline Sørensen for #11 Katrine Veje. These thumbnails AET 0-0. KftPM ...
1 | 1 _ _ _ _ | #9 Nadia Nadim, right instep to back left low 0 | 0 _ _ _ _ | #18 Laura Feiersinger, right instep way over right 90 2 | 1 1 _ _ _ | #10 Pernille Harder, right instep to back left low (past Zinzberger's dive) 0 | 0 0 _ _ _ | #4 Viktoria Pinther, right instep to 1/5 left low, Petersen dives and blocks wide
2 | 1 1 0 _ _ | #13 Sofie Pedersen, left instep to left post low, Zinsberger dives and blocks 0 | 0 0 0 _ _ | #19 Verena Aschauer, left instep to 1/5 left low, Petersen dives and saves
3 | 1 1 0 1 ~ | #5 Simone Boye Sørensen, right instep to back right high (unsaveable) 0 | 0 0 0 ~ ~ | Denmark advances!
Zinsberger once again dove mainly right, and even saved one, but it was her team-mates deceiving her. For me, she remains best GK of the tournament. Denmark tried harder had probably deserved by a slight margin. In the final minutres, Austrians were just bunkering and recurring to fouls. Probably they were also too much tired from all this defending, by the time PKs came.