Euro 2022 final: Alexandra Popp and Beth Mead on menu as Germany book ‘great football feast’ with England – The Warm-Up

THURSDAY'S BIG STORIES Once you Popp Ad/> Alexandra Popp’s name is both a gift and a curse. A gift because of the myriad options her surname gives you, so too the headline-makers and sub-editors, but a curse because you’re left pondering the puns that have escaped you, and so, a la David Brent, we shall scratch our goatee in the office while we think of something better.

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Yes. She’s rather good, and rather clinical, and quite the problem in that once she gets going she really is difficult to stop – a scary proposition that England will be confronting next on Sunday after her double against France helped Germany reach the Euro 2022 final.

Popp started the first game of the tournament as a substitute, but she is now joint-top scorer with Beth Mead on six goals at the Championships, scoring in every game so far, and needing just the 17 shots to reach this tally (thanks, Opta), making her the obvious threat that Millie Bright and Leah Williamson must deal with at Wembley to ensure they are the ones popping champagne after full-time and lifting a first-ever major trophy. /> Germany, meanwhile, are two-time world champions and have won the Euros – gulp – eight times, and with an Olympic gold medal to boot, they have lost just one final (the 1995 World Cup) out of the 12 they have contested.

Somehow, Germany were just the joint-fifth favourites heading into this tournament — behind Spain, England, France, the Netherlands, and joint with Sweden — but now they enter the final having conceded just one goal all tournament. The same goes for England, too, in fairness, so what will it be? A watertight game or a