Germany secured a 2\u20131 victory over Ivory Coast in Group E of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and booked its place in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n
According to Reuters on Saturday, June 20, striker Deniz Undav came on in the second half and equalized in the 68th minute before scoring again in stoppage time to complete a comeback for Germany.<\/p>\n
Ivory Coast had taken the lead in the first half through Franck Kessi\u00e9, finishing from a rebound after a shot by Amad Diallo during an attack from the left side.<\/p>\n
Germany found the net twice in the first half as well, but both goals were disallowed after VAR reviews for fouls in the build-up.<\/p>\n
Despite Ivory Coast\u2019s stronger first-half performance, Germany struggled to convert chances while playing in front of a large crowd in Toronto and went into halftime trailing by one goal.<\/p>\n
In the second half, Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s side made tactical adjustments and increased pressure, taking control of the match.<\/p>\n
After the game, Nagelsmann said his team deserved the win and praised the players for fighting until the final whistle.<\/p>\n
With the result, Germany topped Group E with six points and confirmed qualification for the knockout round, while Ivory Coast remained on three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany secured a 2\u20131 victory over Ivory Coast in Group E of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[851,5,822,7104],"class_list":["post-40602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-germany","tag-ivory-coast","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40602","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=40602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}