Germany vs Austria LIVE: Newest updates from Euro 2022 quarter-final

6 minutes: Austria attempt to string collectively an assault down the correct flank however appear a contact cautious about over-committing gamers in case Germany hit them with a counter.

The ball runs out of play and Germany as soon as extra take over possession.

3 minutes: It’s been an aggressive begin from Germany who dash up the pitch on the press and attempt to shut the ball down rapidly. Lina Magull wins the ball and couple of occasions in the course of the pitch and feeds it over to Klara Buhl.

Buhl takes on a few defenders and weaves her method into the left facet of the field earlier than working into extra hassle and dropping possession.

Earlier than kick off there’s a moments silence for former German footballer, Uwe Seeler, who handed away just lately.

Austria then get the sport began.

Right here come the groups. The Germans are led out by Alexandra Popp however the Austrians have a decided really feel about them.

The gang is as soon as once more packed into the Brentford Group Stadium.

Tha nationwide anthems are up subsequent.

Austria have required a penalty shootout to settle each their earlier European championship knockout stage matches following goalless attracts.

They received 5-3 on spot kicks of their quarter-final tie with Spain 5 years in the past, earlier than happening to lose 3-0 on penalties within the final 4 in opposition to Denmark.

Excluding penalty shoot-outs, Germany have misplaced simply three of their 43 matches on the Euros with 34 wins and 6 attracts.

Martina Voss-Tecklenburg’s Germany are aiming to raise the trophy for the ninth time, having been victorious in eight of their ten earlier appearances. Norway, with two, are the competitors’s solely different a number of champions.

They triumphed in every of the earlier six editions of the Euros and had completed within the prime 4 in every of their first 9 participations previous to a 2017 quarter-final defeat to Denmark.

Germany have additionally reached the quarter-final stage in all 4 tournaments because it was launched in 2009; they’re one in every of simply three sides to have accomplished so, together with France and Sweden.

Austria stunned the world after they reached the semi-finals of the Ladies’s Euros in 2017 on their first look within the competitors and they’re lighting it up as soon as once more.

They knocked out two-time winners Norway to e-book their spot within the final eight, however boss Irene Fuhrmann is underneath no phantasm as to the problem posed by Martina Voss-Tecklenburg’s Germany.

“It’s implausible and exhausting to imagine that we made it by such a powerful group to achieve the quarter-finals,” mentioned Fuhrmann.

“We’re very practical about our subsequent opponents: Germany have been enjoying very nicely – will probably be powerful.”

The 26-year-old scored Austria’s equaliser of their eventual 3-1 defeat by Germany within the final assembly between the nations and her objective in opposition to Norway on Matchday 3 not solely despatched Austria to the knockout levels however was the three hundredth within the group stage on the Ladies’s Euro finals.

That match-winning header in opposition to Norway was the ahead’s first objective her eight appearances on the European championship.

The Hoffenheim striker ended the 2020/21 marketing campaign because the Frauen-Bundesliga’s prime scorer with 23.

The followers have begun arriving on the Brentford Group Stadium.

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The 31-year-old opened the scoring after simply eight minutes in Germany’s final assembly with Austria; a 3-1 win in October 2018.

Popp turned solely the second participant – after England’s Beth Mead – to attain in every of her facet’s three group stage matches at Ladies’s Euro 2022.

The ahead may equal the nationwide file of scoring in 4 successive Ladies’s Euro matches, set by Heidi Mohr between 1989 and 1993.

Regardless of being essentially the most skilled member of the Germany squad with 114 caps, that is Popp’s first Euros having missed out on the 2013 and 2017 editions attributable to damage.