Story highlights Germany into last eight of WWC

Beats Nigeria 3-0 in Grenoble

(CNN) Alexandra Popp celebrated her 100th appearance for Germany with the opening goal for the two-time world champion in its comfortable 3-0 win over Nigeria in Grenoble to reach the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup.

Player-of-the match Popp broke the deadlock after 20 minutes in the picturesque Stade des Alpes as she nodded neatly home from a Lina Magull corner.

#GER continue their record of reaching *at least* the quarter-finals at every single edition of the #FIFAWWC 👏#GERNGA 🇩🇪🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/pM69FwJXHK — FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) June 22, 2019

But once again VAR was called upon to validate the goal as her teammate Svenja Huth appeared to be standing in the goalkeeper's eye line in an offside position as the ball found the net.

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