German women's team wins ticket to quarterfinals of Paris Olympics 2024

The German women's football team has qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics after defeating Zambia 4-1 in the final round of Group B in the early morning of August 1. Meanwhile, Australia was unfortunately eliminated after losing to the United States.

Schueller (7) celebrates a goal for the German women's team - Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The US women's team has already secured a ticket to the next round after two absolute victories. The remaining ticket of Group B is the competition between Germany and Australia (both with 3 points) in the final round of the group stage taking place in the early morning of August 1. Having to beat Zambia to secure a place in the group stage, the German women's team played with great determination. They opened the scoring in the 10th minute of the match thanks to striker Schueller. However, that was also the only goal in the first 45 minutes. Right at the beginning of the second half, the match was extremely exciting. The German women's team increased the score to 2-0 in the 47th minute thanks to Buhl. But 2 minutes later, Branda immediately shortened the score to 1-2 for Zambia when taking advantage of goalkeeper Berger's wrong pass and shooting into an empty net. The superiority in class helped Germany score another goal in the 61st minute after a combination between two players wearing the Bayern Munich women's club jersey. Buehl passed from the left wing, allowing Schueller to tap the ball into the net close to give Germany a 3-1 lead over Zambia. This goal officially "destroyed" the remaining efforts of the Zambian girls. Because in the remaining minutes, the German women's team played quite leisurely and scored another goal in the 90+7 minute thanks to Senss, thereby sealing the 4-1 victory.

The US women's team (left) in the 2-1 win over Australia - Photo: AFP

In the match taking place at the same time, the US women's team defeated Australia 2-1. Goalkeeper Arnold Mackenzie had to work at full capacity to save the Australian women's team from the pressure of the US. But at the end of the first half, Arnold also had to pick the ball out of the net after Rodman's shot. In the second half, the US women's team continued to dominate the game and scored another goal to increase the score to 2-0 in the 77th minute after Albert's beautiful shot from outside the penalty area. Australia's efforts could only help them get an honorary goal in the 90+1 minute thanks to Kennedy. Thus, the US women's team closed the group stage with 3 wins, winning a ticket to the quarterfinals as the top team of Group B. The German women's team (6 points) ranked 2nd and won the remaining ticket. Meanwhile, the defeat also caused Australia to lose the ticket to the quarterfinals for the third-placed team with the best record in the 3 groups. Because even though they have the same 3 points after 3 matches, Australia has the worst goal difference (-3) compared to Colombia (0, group A) and Brazil (-2, group C).

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