Mar 30, 2026, 05:11 PM ET<\/p>\n
STUTTGART, Germany — Deniz Undav<\/a> turned up the pressure on Germany<\/a> coach Julian Nagelsmann to select him for the World Cup after he scored the 2-1 winner against Ghana<\/a> 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<\/a>‘s penalty for Germany.<\/p>\n After Florian Wirtz<\/a>‘s spectacular attacking display in Germany’s 4-3 win against Switzerland<\/a>, the host team was expected to score high against an opponent coming off a 5-1 loss to Austria<\/a>. 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<\/a> blocked a shot with his arm. Ghana leveled on the counter in the 70th when Germany-born Derrick K\u00f6hn<\/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<\/a> 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<\/a> in June before facing Curacao<\/a>, the Ivory Coast<\/a> and Ecuador<\/a> in Group E of the tournament.<\/p>\n Ghana has lost four friendlies in a row. It’s in Group L with Panama<\/a>, England<\/a> and Croatia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 30, 2026, 05:11 PM ET STUTTGART, Germany — Deniz Undav turned up the pressure on Germany coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-555437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555437","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=555437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}