{"id":1022,"date":"2026-03-30T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/1022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:06:08","slug":"undav-makes-his-world-cup-case-for-germany-with-winning-goal-in-ghana-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/1022\/","title":{"rendered":"Undav makes his World Cup case for Germany with winning goal in Ghana friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) \u2014 Deniz Undav turned up the pressure on Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann to select him for the World Cup<\/a> after he scored the 2-1 winner against Ghana on Monday to back up strong club form.<\/p>\n

Undav hadn\u2019t played for Germany since June but seven goals<\/a> in his last six Bundesliga games helped him earn a recall<\/a>. Germany was playing the friendly at the home stadium of his club Stuttgart and fans chanted for Undav long before he came off the bench.<\/p>\n

The game seemed to be fizzling out to a draw when he flicked the ball over Ghana\u2019s goalkeeper in the 88th minute to give Germany a seventh successive win.<\/p>\n

Ghana\u2019s Abdul Fatuwu earlier scored on the counter to cancel out Kai Havertz\u2019s penalty for Germany.<\/p>\n

After Florian Wirtz\u2019s spectacular attacking display in Germany\u2019s 4-3 win against Switzerland<\/a>, Germany was expected to score high against an opponent coming off a 5-1 loss to Austria. It ended up being a subdued win in constant driving rain.<\/p>\n

Nick Woltemade started in one of four German changes but his main impact was heading against the bar in the second half.<\/p>\n

Havertz put Germany ahead with his penalty just before halftime after Jonas Adjetey blocked a shot with his arm. Ghana leveled on the counter in the 70th when Germany-born Derrick K\u00f6hn surged down the left flank, beat defender Josha Vagnoman and crossed low for Fatawu to score.<\/p>\n

Ghana defender Kojo Peprah Oppong of Nice had to be helped off the field after injuring his left leg challenging Woltemade.<\/p>\n

Germany has further pre-World Cup friendlies against Finland in May and co-host the United States in June before facing Curacao, the Ivory Coast and Ecuador in Group E of the tournament. <\/p>\n

Ghana has lost four friendlies in a row. It\u2019s in Group L with Panama, England and Croatia.<\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUTTGART, Germany (AP) \u2014 Deniz Undav turned up the pressure on Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann to select him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[792,846,229,851,216,5,849,209,850,793,794,138,327,735,328,710,259],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-abdul-fatuwu","9":"tag-bundesliga","10":"tag-deniz-undav","11":"tag-fifa-world-cup","12":"tag-florian-wirtz","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-germany-national-soccer-team","15":"tag-ghana","16":"tag-ghana-national-soccer-team","17":"tag-jonas-adjetey","18":"tag-josha-vagnomann","19":"tag-julian-nagelsmann","20":"tag-kai-havertz","21":"tag-kojo-peprah-oppong","22":"tag-nick-woltemade","23":"tag-soccer","24":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}