Germany has ended Spain's 24-match unbeaten run to advance to the quarterfinals at the women's European Championship with a 2-0 victory.
In front of 16,037 fans on Tuesday at Brentford's stadium in west London, Klara Bühl and German captain Alexandra Popp scored twice in the first half.
Bühl's opener came in just the third minute after Spanish goalkeeper Sandra Panos tried to make a clearance from a routine back-pass but struck Bühl instead, who turned inside Irene Paredes to shoot low into the bottom corner of the net.
Popp then netted in the 36th minute from a header after connecting with Felicitas Rauch's corner.
The win sees Germany seal top spot in Group B on Tuesday with a game to spare.
The record eight-time European champions have never failed to qualify from the women's Euro group stages and will play Group A's runners-up, Austria or Norway, in the knockout round.
The loss leaves Spain in second place, equal with Denmark on points but ahead on goal difference.
Crowd records continue to tumble
Host nation England had already secured their place in the quarterfinals with a Beth Mead hat-trick seeing them record an 8-0 defeat of Norway and the biggest win of any team in women's Euros history.
That match drew a crowd of 28,847 at Brighton and Hove Community Stadium, the fourth-highest attendance for a women's Euro game.
This follows the crowd of 68,871 who watched England take on Austria in the 2022 opener at Old Trafford, smashing the all-time record for attendance for the women's Euros (previously 41,301 to watch Germany beat Norway in the 2013 final in Sweden).
Two days later, 16,189 watched Spain beat Finland in Milton Keynes, the most to attend a group stage Euro fixture not involving the host nation.
That record stood for just 24 hours, before 21,342 witnessed the Netherlands take on Sweden in Sheffield.
2017 runner-up Denmark rallies to defeat Finland
In Tuesday's other game, Pernille Harder scored Denmark's first goal at the tournament to secure the team's first victory, a 1-0 win over Finland at Milton Keynes.
Host nation England, the Group A winner, awaits the team that finishes second in Group B, which will be determined when Spain plays Denmark on Saturday.
Pernille Harder, Denmark's all-time leading scorer, netted her 69th international goal with a close-range header in the 72nd, pouncing after Karen Holmgaard nodded off the crossbar.
Denmark was runner-up in the 2017 tournament after losing in the final to the Netherlands.
There was a setback for the defending Dutch champions on Tuesday though with star striker Vivianne Miedema testing positive for COVID-19, ruling her out of Wednesday's Group C game against Portugal.
With AAP
