Germany 6-0 Morocco: Alexandra Popp scores twice

Germany person won 8 of their 9 opening matches astatine the Women's World Cup

Germany began their Women's World Cup run successful benignant arsenic skipper Alexandra Popp scored doubly to spot disconnected debutants Morocco successful Melbourne.

Striker Popp, who was ruled retired of the Euro 2022 last done injury, made her people with 2 objective headers successful the archetypal half.

Klara Buhl pounced connected a rebound soon aft half-time to widen Germany's lead, earlier Morocco's Hanane Ait el Haj and Yasmin Mrabet poked into their ain nett connected abstracted occasions.

Germany continued to origin problems and completed the rout erstwhile substitute Lea Schuller added a sixth, firing it into an bare nett aft a swift counter-attack connected the right.

It was a beardown show from Martina Voss-Tecklenburg's broadside arsenic they created galore chances and looked crisp going forward, hitting the woodwork connected 2 occasions and having a extremity ruled retired for offside.

Despite missing cardinal players Lena Oberdorf and Marina Hegering done injury, Germany maintained their awesome grounds successful the radical stages of the competition, losing lone erstwhile successful 25 matches.

Morocco, 1 of 8 teams making their World Cup debut this year, were unsafe successful flashes, but they lacked the objective interaction that Germany's Popp provided astatine the different end.

Germany person scored 16 goals successful their past six World Cup games

Popp stars arsenic Germany enactment down marker

With immoderate of Europe's bigger nations underwhelming successful their opening matches, Germany took their accidental to enactment a marker connected the competition, confirming their presumption arsenic 1 of the favourites.

They were ruthless successful onslaught and it was talismanic striker Popp who delivered the aboriginal goals successful the archetypal fractional which allowed them to play with creativity and flair arsenic the crippled wore on.

She was talented a escaped header erstwhile Morocco goalkeeper Khadija Er-Rmichi missed a transverse from Kathrin Hendrich, and aboriginal connected with a country to marque it 2-0.

Popp joins the USA's Sophia Smith and Japan's Hinata Miyazawa arsenic the lone players to people doubly successful their opening games and she went disconnected to applause from travelling fans successful the stands with 10 minutes remaining.

Morocco, ranked 70 places little than Germany, were not arsenic mediocre arsenic the scoreline suggests, arsenic they pressed precocious and caused problems connected the counter-attack.

Tottenham striker Rosella Ayane was an outlet with her pace, portion skipper Ghizlane Chebbak tested goalkeeper Merle Frohms connected a fewer occasions.

But Germany showed their superiority successful the moments erstwhile it mattered and could easy person added to their tally.

Germany look Colombia successful their 2nd radical crippled successful a beardown position, portion Morocco look South Korea next, hoping to prime up their archetypal points astatine a Women's World Cup.