Stopper Vålerenga Stine Ballisager lost the ball almost halfway through the first half as a defender. Lina Magull tackled him with him and hit him at a nearby intersection. Signe Bruun had to share the blame for the goal when he pushed the ball too loosely at Ballisager and put his team-mates in a difficult situation against aggressive German pressure.

Rosenborg goalkeeper Lene Christensen kept Denmark in the game for a long time with a fine save, but she misplaced a corner from Magull in the 57th minute. Lea Schüller could have added one more goal to the visitors’ advantage had her free-kick been slightly lower.

Substitutes Lena Lattwein and Alexandra Popp finished the job in the final quarter.

Thus, Germany took revenge for the quarter-final defeat in the previous European Championship, which ended the team’s 22-year reign as European champions. Germany won six European Championships in a row from 1995 to 2013. Denmark, who won silver at the previous European Championships, have struggled to progress from a group that also includes Spain. Spain’s star team won 4-1 over Finland early Friday.

– We made a brilliant match. With great aggression, we really dominated. “It was a great team effort by all the players,” said Germany national team manager Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.

Denmark is the best team that Norway has beaten in the run-up of the European Championships. After Friday’s victories, Germany and Spain set fire to quarter-final opponents for the teams that advanced from group Norway.

Three from Toppserien

Denmark have three Toppserien players in the starting line-up, while Norway have only one (Guro Pettersen) in their opening game on Thursday. Denmark wears mourning bandages in memory of victims of a shooting at a shopping center in Copenhagen.

Germany paid for their high and aggressive pressure when they took the lead. Until then, Denmark had kept a clean sheet thanks to some fine saves by Lene Christensen and luck. Felicitas Rauch sent, among other things, a long shot across the crossbar three minutes before the quarter was played.

The second time, Lea Schüller nodded at the post on her return, but she was offside. Lattwein also hit the post after a corner in the second half.

Good for Popp

Bruun had Denmark’s best chance of the first half with a long-range shot that tested Merle Frohms. Vålerenga’s Janni Thomsen also had corner kicks that danced across the pitch, but overall the Dane had little line-up.

Germany also welcomed Captain Alexandra Popp back after coronary heart disease. The 31-year-old was substituted for his European Championship debut and crowned it with a goal when he headed home Sydney Lohmann’s goal. Previously, he had missed several European Championship finals due to injury.

Four minutes into extra time, Denmark was reduced to ten men. Kathrine Kühl had to leave the field with a knee injury.

The match was watched by more than 15,000 spectators at the Brentford arena in London.