{"id":1081,"date":"2026-03-31T05:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/1081\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:13:16","slug":"deniz-undav-boosts-world-cup-case-for-germany-with-goal-in-ghana-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/1081\/","title":{"rendered":"Deniz Undav Boosts World Cup Case For Germany With Goal in Ghana Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deniz Undav<\/a> 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’t played for Germany since June but seven goals in his last six Bundesliga<\/a> games helped him earn a recall. 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’s goalkeeper in the 88th minute to give Germany a seventh successive win.<\/p>\n

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

After Florian Wirtz’s<\/a> spectacular attacking display in Germany’s 4-3 win against Switzerland, 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<\/a> 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 Kohn<\/a> surged down the left flank, beat defender Josha Vagnoman<\/a> and crossed low for Fatawu to score.<\/p>\n

Ghana defender Kojo Peprah Oppong<\/a> 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’s in Group L with Panama, England and Croatia.<\/p>\n

Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deniz Undav turned up the pressure on Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann to select him for the World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[846,229,172,5,329],"class_list":{"0":"post-1081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bundesliga","9":"tag-deniz-undav","10":"tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-vfb-stuttgart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}