{"id":555098,"date":"2026-03-30T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:45:09","slug":"germany-2-1-ghana-undav-scores-winner-in-stuttgart-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555098\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany 2-1 Ghana: Undav scores winner in Stuttgart friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deniz Undav came off the bench to score a late winner as Germany edged out Ghana in a friendly in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

Forward Undav was among three half-time substitutions made by Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann and pounced on a knockdown by Leroy Sane to poke past Ghana goalkeeper Benjamin Asare in the 88th minute.<\/p>\n

Stuttgart’s former Brighton forward has scored 18 goals in the Bundesliga this season – with only Bayern Munich and England striker Harry Kane scoring more – and was making his first appearance for Germany since June 2025. <\/p>\n

Four-time Africa Cup of Nations champions Ghana, who failed to qualify for the 2025 tournament<\/a>, were forced on to the backfoot early by Germany, who struck the woodwork through Florian Wirtz’s free-kick after six minutes. <\/p>\n

But they had to wait until the dying seconds of the first half to make the breakthrough as English referee Stuart Attwell awarded them a penalty after Angelo Stiller’s cross hit the arm of Jonas Adjetey. <\/p>\n

Kai Havertz stepped up to take the spot-kick and sent Asare the wrong way to put Nagelsmann’s side ahead. <\/p>\n

The woodwork denied Germany again early in the second half as Nick Woltemade rattled the crossbar with a header before Ghana drew level through Leicester City winger Abdul Fatawu in the 70th minute. <\/p>\n

Undav’s late strike, however, ensured Germany claimed back-to-back wins, having defeated Switzerland 4-3 on Friday, while Ghana added to their disappointment of a 5-1 defeat by Austria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deniz Undav came off the bench to score a late winner as Germany edged out Ghana in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-555098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}