{"id":716301,"date":"2026-06-20T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:47:16","slug":"germany-2-1-ivory-coast-substitute-deniz-undav-scores-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716301\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany 2-1 Ivory Coast: Substitute Deniz Undav scores twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany put on a show in their opener as they delivered a thrashing of Curacao for the biggest win of the opening round. <\/p>\n

But an exciting Ivory Coast side, brimming with the confidence from a late victory against Ecuador<\/a> in their opener, posed an altogether different challenge. <\/p>\n

Diomande, linked with a move to Liverpool<\/a>, showcased his pace and raw ability on the left flank for the Ivorians, while Manchester United winger Amad, Kessie and 20-year-old Oulai all caused problems for the German defence that has now kept just one clean sheet in its past six matches.<\/p>\n

Ultimately though, Germany were rescued by the quality of their substitutes.<\/p>\n

With his side trailing 1-0, Nagelsmann made a triple change in the 60th minute, bringing on Jamie Leweling, Amiri and Undav – with the latter duo combining for the equaliser only eight minutes later. <\/p>\n

Undav then struck a second to take his tally to nine goals in just 11 appearances for Germany and make his case for a starting spot again, helping his side put embarrassing group-stage exits in 2018 and 2022 behind them.<\/p>\n

Ivory Coast, meanwhile, can take a lot of heart from their performance despite the last-gasp defeat. <\/p>\n

This group of players remain well-placed to achieve a feat that eluded the likes of Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure and Salomon Kalou before them – taking their country to the knockout stages of a World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany put on a show in their opener as they delivered a thrashing of Curacao for the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-716301","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\/716301","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=716301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}