Germany competed, resisted and knocked down the Ivory Coast this Saturday in the vibrant and multicultural Toronto to keep its World Cup candidate status intact. The team He reacted in the second half to Kessié’s initial goal, which came after a fantastic play by Diomande, the Leipzig footballer who emigrated from his country at the age of nine to seek the opportunities he did not have there and for whom half the world now desires. The best response from Nagelsmann’s group, which suffered Cain’s to overcome Elephants —a very physical team, with dynamite at the top and orderly from the fantastic distribution of the young Inao Oulai— was the scorer Undaz. The second highest scorer in the Bundesliga and he converted first a cross from Amiri and later an assist from Nmecha in the 94th minute. Unknown territory since he won the World Cup in Brazil 2014 after falling in the first phase in both Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022.
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Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Nathaniel Brown, Nico Schlotterbeck (Antonio Rüdiger, min. 45), Jonathan Tah, Jamal Musiala (Deniz Undav, min. 59), Aleksandar Pavlovic (Nadiem Amiri, min. 59), Florian Wirtz, Felix Nmecha, Leroy Sané (Jamie Leweling, min. 59) y Kai Havertz (Leon Goretzka, min. 84)
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Yahia Fofana, Ghislain Konan, Wilfried Singo (Guéla Doué, min. 81), Odilon Kossounou, Emmanuel Agbadou, Franck Kessie, Ibrahim Sangaré (Seko Fofana, min. 74), Yan Diomande (Nicolas Pépé, min. Christ OulaSi, Inao AdulSi, Ina 74) and Angel-Yoan Bonny (Evann Guessand, min. 74)
Goals 0-1 min. 29: Kessie Frank. 1-1 min. 67: Deniz Undav. 2-1 min. 93: Deniz Undav
The match, on the other hand, left the feeling that Germany does not have enough football right now. Nagelsmann’s team had debuted last week with The 7-1 defeat of the smallest country that has ever entered a World Cup was a celebration, but the real tournament for the teamwhich now has 11 consecutive wins in its best streak since 1980, began today in Toronto, where it was seen that the German group, consequently, has a hard time braiding and dismantling rocky and strong defenses like the one exhibited by the Ivory Coast, a team capable of retreating and launching counterattacks like daggers or of resting and building with the ball from the handling of Inao Oulai, Kessié and Sangaré.
The goal from the former Barça midfielder, now in Saudi football, came after Diomande’s one-for-one against Kimmich. Neuer saved Diallo’s shot from point-blank range, but Kessié pushed the rebound at will. From there it cost Germany a world, imprecise in the shots of Musiala, Wirtz and Nmecha. Nagelsmann agitated the attack with Leweling, Undav, Amiri and Goretzka. The striker saved the ballot for the most successful team in the history of Europe with two shots from killer with which Germany She was able to maintain her candidate status after Adringra forgave Neuer after a pass from Pépé.
