STUTTGART, Germany (AP) \u2014 Deniz Undav turned up the pressure on Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann to select him for the World Cup 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 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 penalty for Germany.<\/p>\n
After Florian Wirtz’s 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 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’s in Group L with Panama, England and Croatia.<\/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":967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[792,229,216,5,791,209,793,794,138,327,735,328,640,799,795,796,797,798],"class_list":{"0":"post-970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-abdul-fatuwu","9":"tag-deniz-undav","10":"tag-florian-wirtz","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-germany-ghana-friendly-world-cup","13":"tag-ghana","14":"tag-jonas-adjetey","15":"tag-josha-vagnomann","16":"tag-julian-nagelsmann","17":"tag-kai-havertz","18":"tag-kojo-peprah-oppong","19":"tag-nick-woltemade","20":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","21":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","22":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","23":"tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","24":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","25":"tag-product-42059-world-cup-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}