Joachim Low’s side secured their third straight win to qualify for the last eight of the competition as Denmark were knocked out. Lars Bender scored the late winner as Germany finished on top at the end after http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 in front of a packed crowd.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lars-Bender-c21663 came in for the suspended Jerome Boateng on the right side of defence.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sami-Khedira-c32325 cross was way over the cross bar.
The Bayern Munich man had a clear cut opportunity just three minutes later when a deflected cross from Lukas Podolski found him but his shot in the end was poor and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stephan-Andersen-c34096 collected the ball nicely.
However, Muller redeemed himself in the 19th minute when he placed a perfect ball across from the right to Podolski, who made no mistake to slot the ball home on his 100th cap for the country. It was the Arsenal-bound attacker’s 44th goal for Germany.
The Danes cancelled Podolski’s goal five minutes later through http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nicklas-Bendtner-c27726 leaped above two German defenders to find him. At this point of time, Denmark were going through as Netherlands were leading Portugal after a sublime strike from Rafael Van der Vaart.
Die Mannschaft continued to dominate the proceedings and were awarded a free-kick right on the edge of the box in the 36th minute after Simon Kjaer fouled Muller. Podolski took the shot but his strike was over the bar and the score remained 1-1 at half-time.
Jakob Poulsen had a brilliant chance of putting his side in the lead in the opening minutes of the second period. Bendtner provided the midfielder a great opportunity in the box but Poulsen’s shot hit the outside of the left post.
The winner came in the 80th minute when Mesut Ozil’s impressive through ball found Lars Bender and the Bayer Leverkusen man made no mistake to slot home with a low finish in the bottom left corner. Denmark failed to create any chances in the last 10 minutes of the game and the Germans emerged victorious in the end.
Joachim Low’s men will now face http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Greece-c2908 in the quarter-final, which will be played at the PGE Arena in Gdansk on Friday, June 22.
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