{"id":51684,"date":"2025-07-20T20:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51684"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:23:51","slug":"germany-beats-france-on-penalties-to-reach-euro-2025-semifinals-despite-early-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/germany-beats-france-on-penalties-to-reach-euro-2025-semifinals-despite-early-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Beats France on Penalties to Reach Euro 2025 Semifinals despite Early Red Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany overcame France on penalties and reached the semifinals of the Women\u2019s European Championship despite playing almost the entire match \u2014 and extra time \u2014 with 10 players.<\/p>\n<p>A drama-filled match finished 1-1 on Saturday, then Germany won the shootout 6-5 thanks to the heroics of Ann-Katrin Berger, who saved two shots as well as dispatching her own spot kick.<\/p>\n<p>There were tears of joy from the Germany players after perhaps one of the greatest examples in soccer history of digging deep to defy the odds, The AP news reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was in each other\u2019s arms,\u201d Germany coach Christian W\u00fcck said. \u201cEveryone was celebrating; everyone was happy that this hard-fought performance led us to victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only say it again and again: I\u2019m so proud of the team for the way they took on this challenge against an opponent who demanded everything from us. That was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany, which is bidding for a record-extending ninth European Championship title, will face World Cup winner Spain in Zurich on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany overcame France on penalties and reached the semifinals of the Women\u2019s European Championship despite playing almost the entire match \u2014 and extra time \u2014 with 10 players. A drama-filled match finished 1-1 on Saturday, then Germany won the shootout 6-5 thanks to the heroics of Ann-Katrin Berger, who saved two shots as well as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51686,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51684\/revisions\/51686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}