Germany won a comfortable 3-0 victory against Slovenia in its opening match of the European U21 championship thanks to a hat-trick of nods by Nick Woltemade.
The highly classified Stuttgart striker, who made his debut for the senior German team just earlier this month and whose stock continues to increase, found the net twice in the first half before adding a third of the penalty square in the 82nd minute to give his team three points in his opening match.
The 23 -year -old made a hatch in the last outing of Germany U21 against Spain and he maintained his fatal form in front of the goal here while the rivals of group B of England lacked convincing winners.
It was the biggest margin of victory in the tournament so far and established Germany as serious contenders to take the crown of the three Lions.
Nick Woltemade immediately puts himself at the top of the Golden Boot race with a first correspondence hat 😤#Dfb #Germanfootball #Germanynt
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– German football (@dfb_team_en) June 12, 2025
Elsewhere, the group D started in an exciting way with Ernest Poku by saving a point for the Netherlands in the depths of the second half’s second half in their confrontation with Finland.
Casper Terho and Topi Keskinen gave Finland an advantage of two goals before the break before the Oranje put a valiant return after restart.
Luciano Valente has halved the deficit per hour and Poku finished the renewal, finding the net in the 93rd minute to make sure that the two parties took part of the booty.
Meanwhile, Denmark took its campaign at a start of victory with a 3-2 victory against Ukraine.
Nazar Voloshyn opened the scoring after 22 minutes, but the game really came to life after an hour when Clement Bischoff leveled for the Scandinavians.
Maksym Braharu restored Ukraine’s advance with 12 minutes to do, but the goals of William Boving and William Osula turned the link to the head to give the Danes three important points.
