German efficiency beat English efforts

For those who like to see goals in football this nights final in Women´s Euro 2009 in Finland was a party. In a game full of action Germany scored six times and England twice.

Although it ended with quite a big victory for Germany it was a close game for most of the time. In the first half England had almost more of the play and Germany´s two goals seemed to come out of nothing. Germany took a 2-0 lead thanks to two goals in two minutes. The first goal started from Simone Laudehr at the midfield who could go forward unattacked before she played the ball to Inka Grings who turned the ball to Birgit Printz who scored.

Two minutes later Melanie Behringer went for a long distance shot which found it´s way right in the upper corner. England game back two minutes later when Karen Carney scored on Kelly Smith´s forework.

2-1 to Germany was the score at half time. Only four minutes into the second half Kim Kulig made it 3-1 in the afterplay to a corner, just for Kelly Smith to pay back four minutes later.

In this situation with Germany leading 3-2 England was still there and it was a close game. The decisive part of the game came when Inka Grings scored Germany´s fourth goal, and after she scored also a fifth goal it was all done.

At the end it was all about Germany and Printz could score her second to make it 6-2.

One could say that what decided the game was Germany´s efficiency, because in trying England was at least at the same level. Germany seemed to be more of a team, without stars, while England is more dependent on some individuals succeeding.

Grings was names Player of the Mathc and she also got rewarded for scoring most goals in the tournament, six goals.