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Merle Frohms, goal:
Frohms has probably never had as many ball contacts as in the first half at the European Championship, and most of them annoyed the many English fans at Wembley.
Frohms remained calm. No ball could pose a threat to her in the first half, her positional play was too sovereign.
She probably would have even come close to Ellen White's powerful shot (38th minute), which then went over the goal.
She couldn't do anything for the goals she conceded.
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Andy Rain/EPA
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Giulia Gwinn, defence:
The Bayern player initially had a lot to do and had problems with England's position changes on the wings.
She played more defensively than last time and more uncertain than usual.
From the second half you saw more of the otherwise offensive Gwinn, but not enough.
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Kathrin Hendrich, defence:
She was courageous in the duels, showed a clean tackle in the second minute and was registered for the final.
The enormous attack of the English women in the early minutes could not harm her.
When she conceded a goal (62nd), she looked bad together with Hegering, her game for offside didn't work out and the gap between them was much too big, through which Ella Toone was then able to march.
At 1: 2 after a corner kick, Hendrich was unlucky again, she didn't get the ball cleared and was possibly in the way of her goalkeeper.
It was just unfortunate.
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Marina Hegering, defense (up to the 103rd minute):
Hegering threw herself into every tackle that offered itself, and the future Wolfsburg player stayed fair.
She also supported her front men in attacks.
It's a fabulous story that Hegering made it into this European Championship final at all.
Because of a heel injury and subsequent wound healing disorder, she lost almost five years of her career.
She only became a national player in 2019.
Now, at 32, she's as good as she's ever been.
Hegering was so close to her greatest triumph - but the 0-1, for which she was partly to blame, prevented him.
Hegering was the tragic heroine.
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Sara Doorsoun, defense (from the 103rd minute):
When Hegering was physically unable to continue, the Frankfurter came into play.
The score was 1-2 while they were there, but Doorsoun couldn't help that.
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Felicitas Rauch, defense (up to the 113th minute):
Very solid at first, active on offense even with smaller combinations in a confined space.
In a second urge phase of the English women, she came under pressure: first she couldn't keep up with England's greatest scoring chance on the wing (38'), then she saw the first German yellow card (41').
Rauch did not allow himself to be unsettled by this brief phase of weakness.
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Lena Lattwein, midfield (from the 113th minute):
She was supposed to stimulate the game again after the 1:2, but that shouldn't work anymore.
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Lena Oberdorf, midfield:
After a few minutes, the symbol of the German resistance at this European Championship had two fouls on the account - and luckily that at least the second action did not lead to an early yellow card.
The strong English pressing caused her enormous problems, and in the 56th minute things got louder at Wembley than ever before: Oberdorf received a yellow card.
With this card Oberdorf got more clarity in their actions, more calm and control.
Maybe it was good that she was slowed down a bit by the possible yellow-red danger.
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Sara Däbritz, midfield (from the 73rd minute):
The new player from Olympique Lyon helped and rushed over as a support in duels.
That distinguishes the DFB selection at this European Championship.
However, it was also Däbritz who left too much space in midfield when Keira Walsh made it 1-0 with a sensational pass.
At the beginning she fired the first German shots on goal, but they were not particularly dangerous.
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Sydney Lohmann, midfield (from the 73rd minute):
When Lohmann comes into play, it becomes dangerous.
That's always the case, and it was the same this time.
Before it was 1-1, she first held the ball and then passed it out onto the wing to Waßmuth, who put it in the penalty area – goal.
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Lina Magull, midfield (up to the 91st minute):
The Bayern player made her first big appearance when she fired just wide of the goal on the left in the second half.
After that, Magull remained the most dangerous German player: Shortly after going behind, she hit the right post from a tight angle.
All good things come in threes – and on the third try she shot the ball under the crossbar into the net (79').
Their strong evening ended with the regular playing time - Magull had worked enough.
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Linda Dallmann, midfield (from the 91st minute):
The Munich native no longer dribbled into dangerous areas.
In order to be successful, she should have paid more attention to England's defense with their great qualities.
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Jule Brand, attack (up to the 46th minute):
Again she ran for the corona-infected Klara Bühl and Brand partly justified her nomination.
The 19-year-old made beautiful moves in attack and caused minor dangers in England's back line.
What is special about the future Wolfsburg player is how consistently she also supports the defensive.
But this time she was overwhelmed and more of a threat to Germany's defence.
She was replaced in the second half.
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Tabea Waßmuth, Attack (from the 46th minute):
She could hardly pose a threat from the left wing.
After Schüller was substituted, the Wolfsburg player then moved into the middle, where it was difficult to replace the great presence of Alexandra Popp, who was so missed that evening.
Waßmuth made her big appearance when she moved on to the next position and prepared the 1-1 from the right.
Waßmuth traveling circus, the show is on.
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Svenja Huth, attack:
The day before, Huth had said how excited she was for the 90,000 fans.
A big task awaited them right from the start, Huth had to wear the captain's armband from the injured Popp.
With a fine individual action in the tenth minute, she initiated the first German goal chance through Däbritz.
Huth was tireless on the flank, even if there weren't any actions that got stuck.
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Neil Hall/EPA
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Lea Schüller, attack (up to the 66th minute):
Germany's footballer of the year, who was named this Sunday, was not intended for the European Championship final, at least not for the start.
But goalscorer Popp had apparently injured herself while warming up.
It's a curious story, as Schüller lost her starting place at the beginning of the European Championship due to a corona infection to Popp, who then became the German goal machine.
The Bayern striker saved a few balls, but you could tell that she was missing recently and how big the gap is that she now has to close.
It suited her evening that she couldn't do anything with the rebound after Magull shot the post.
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Nicole Anyomi, attack (from the 66th minute):
The Frankfurter was on the move a lot, kept changing sides and that must have unsettled the England team.
In any case, the strongest German phase was after Anyomi's acceptance - that speaks for her.
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Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, national coach:
Replacing Alexandra Popp at such short notice is impossible at this European Championship.
Therefore, the national coach is not to blame that the German attack was almost canceled for 45 minutes.
Voss-Tecklenburg's substitutions solved the problem.
The good changes made by the national coach ran like a red thread through the tournament.
Just like the fact that she hardly changed her basic formation from game to game - and thus developed routines from which her team benefited enormously.
Voss-Tecklenburg can build on this work, this European Championship remains a success even without a title.
The World Cup is already waiting next year.
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