File champions Germany overcame a modest first half and an harm shock regarding captain Giulia Gwinn after they began into girls’s Euro 2025 with a 2-0 victory over Poland on Friday.

Jule Model opened the scoring into the highest cormer within the 52nd minute and arrange Lea Schüller within the 66th after the Germans had didn’t create main probabilities earlier in opposition to the match debutants.

Victory got here after influential Gwinn needed to be helped off in tears within the fortieth minute with an obvious left knee harm she sustained in a deal with in opposition to Poland star Ewa Pajor.

A analysis was not accessible instantly. Gwinn has suffered two cruciate ligament knee accidents in her profession, in 2020 and 2022, which sidelined her for a lot of months on each events.

Eight-time champions Germany prime Group C forward of contenders Sweden, who beat Denmark 1-0 earlier within the day in Geneva from Filippa Angeldahl’s Fifty fifth-minute winner.

A minute of silence was noticed earlier than each video games in reminiscence of Portugal and Liverpool participant Diogo Jota and his brother, André Silva, who died in a automotive crash early Thursday.