Lucy Ward
Former Leeds striker on BBC One

Germany have such a massive talent pool. They are all brought up the same way - to win. They win tournaments in youth football regularly and they funnel them into the senior side.

Germany keeper Merle Frohms is out of her box involved in some passing around the back.

The Germans do look their sweeper keepers in men's and women's football.

Wasted chance for Germany as a lucky ball sends Lina Magull free down the left but she lacks the pure pace to speed away.

Proper pinball in the box but France can't take advantage. Wendie Renard must be an absolute nightmare for opposition - so hard to defend against.

Lucy Ward
Former Leeds striker on BBC One

France don't mind the switch. They're happy to be direct as they have willing runners on either side.

Stephen Warnock
Former England defender on BBC Radio 5 Live

Germany know that they're going into a game against a good team in France and they are defensively strong and robust. It's also how France approach the game knowing that this is such a difficult defence to break.

France have had a few electric starts in this tournament so far but they aren't really getting much out of Germany yet.

They do win a corner now though as Felicitas Rauch was pressured into kicking behind.

All nine of France’s goals have been scored either in the first half of normal time (eight) or first half of extra time (one).

Germany are pinging a few passes around early doors.

Commentator Jonathan Pearce reckons they had a more intense warm-up than France.

Lucy Ward
Former Leeds striker on BBC One

So much to watch with these two teams. We have seen Germany be ruthless and press well. They always have a structured, organised game plan. France tend to relax within games. They can't do this against Germany.

Michael Emons
BBC Sport at Stadium MK

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There were fears that the national train strike would severely impact the attendance but luckily that has not been the case and we're comfortably going to have the highest attendance from the four games in Milton Keynes.

There's a huge number of flags from both sides among the fans and the atmosphere has been building superbly over the last hour.

It's a dry evening after a downpour about an hour ago, although there are some angry looking clouds still overhead. Still, it's all set up perfectly. England awaits the winner.

The game begins.

The little car is on with the ball. Iconic.

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The German players hold a shirt up with the name of their winger Klara Buhl, who misses today with Covid.

Germany captain Alexandra Popp has scored in all four games so far at Euro 2022, and she could become the first ever player to score in five consecutive appearances at the Women’s European Championship.

Only England's Beth Mead has scored more goals, with six.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Zeit journalist Christian Spiller: "Before the tournament, we were a little bit afraid because you could see how during the last years, all the other countries are keeping up or were even overtaking Germany so the old saying that German women always win doesn't work anymore.

"So they got into this comfort zone where it was OK for them to just play and see what happens. They had a good start to the tournament, beating Spain, which they were really afraid of. Since then it has carried on working and it's really nice to watch."

Stephen Warnock
Former England defender on BBC Radio 5 Live

The atmosphere is building, the fans are in. The flags are waving from both sets of fans, I can't wait for this game to get going. This has got all the trademarks of a great game.

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Germany

Former Germany international Tabea Kemme on BBC One: Yesterday we watched the England game and it was a magical night and hopefully tonight will be a magical night also. There could be a dream coming true with that final at Wembley. We will be crossing fingers for Germany of course.

We have so many young players and the individual quality is amazing. I just hopoe they play more offensively. We need to press the defence of France.

Former German international Josephine Henning: "I soaked up everything yesterday. I had goosebumps and I feel that says a lot about how the people stayed in the stadium and celebrated. I enjoyed it very, very much.

"Yeah, I helped Fara last night [with her 4-0 England pre-game prediction]. We locked eyes and I signalled to her the result. It is going to be 2-0 to Germany tonight."

Julien Laurens
French football expert on BBC Radio 5 live

Nobody really believed that France could break the curse and reach the last four. They are very happy for Germany to get the pressure and for them to be favourites. They're happy to leave them the ball and hit them on the counter with the pace of Diani, Cascarino and Mallard.

Simon Gleave
Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

This is the most closely matched of the six knockout phase matches so far with France holding a slight advantage according to Gracenote estimates. France have 51% chance of reaching the final to Germany's 49%.

Germany's chance of winning Euro 2022 has increased from 11% pre-tournament to 24% now, the biggest change since Gracenote released its forecast on 4 July. France are estimated to have 25% chance of winning Euro 2022.