00:06the home team let's talk about the Germans first currently ranked 10th in the world they are in
00:11group E they open up with I still think the expectations are fairly for this team to get
00:16into your quarterfinals it just comes down to I think control in the middle of the field and
00:22when I look at this team it still lacks a guy like it doesn't give you much hope when you
00:26think about the world yeah this is not a Ghana team that is going into the world cup so four
00:30time champs four-time runners-up currently ranked 10th in the world set to take on number seven
01:00field and Nick Vultemont hasn't had a ton of success at Newcastle this season but he'll have
01:05a little bit of joy tonight with the back four that we saw them play against Austria which they lost
01:095-1
01:10or will they shift to their more familiar three back some concerns defensively which continues to
01:14be the big question mark surrounding the four-time world cup champions and the top three in the
01:19Bundesliga at the moment as Germany pressing high winning the ball that's Florian Virts trying to
01:24lead to creating goal-scoring chances
01:27the same Juan Semenyo shows two months Kai Havertz peeling it back good opportunity and it's just
01:33wide from Vultemata and the first sign of flight from Germany in the attacking third tonight
01:40well some big concerns from Ghana's standpoint five goals against Austria but still leaving so many
01:45holes defensively is going to be just a yellow card for Jonas Agente and perhaps a bit of it
01:53lucky to get away with that as Kai Havertz was clear out on goal he actually might have been offside
01:58although I have her tear
02:04but it will be various and it's just wide it actually looked like that might have came off the
02:08post and Liverpool man just inches away from a third goal in two games well Florian Virts at the
02:14moment is a man just oozing confidence and this is such a well-taken set
02:20Kimmich
02:22teasing ball in behind the back line that's your record big challenge over on the left wing of
02:26Germans attack and it falls for Kimmich and behind for Serge Gnabry and that's a awkward header in the
02:31direction of their own goal coming from Aleksandr Jiku he's Spartak Moscow man and it's another set up
02:37towards the back stick it's a free set Germany wins the first back across
02:41this is a clever little ball here's Pascal Gros
02:46over the head of Vultemata and then swiped out by Jonathan Talon out of play
02:50but it has been all Germany inside of the first 10 minutes Germany's been
02:56Kojo Apong being chased down by Serge Gnabry
03:01and the Bayern Munich man guilty of the foul
03:06who was waiting for it at the end of the penalty area that was Prince Andu who was also in
03:10the
03:10neighborhood and that a first-time effort always going wide and that's the first time that Alexander
03:14Neubel has even come close to seeing the ball in his direction
03:19Virts
03:21Kimmich waiting for it and the foul is going to be called against Germany and Kimmich
03:24can't believe it
03:27i want to see that one again because it felt pretty harsh he doesn't hit the target
03:32here's Kimmich again looking for that ball being stood up right around the penalty area
03:37but Asari coming off of his line and then claiming it amongst the trees
03:42it's Alexander Jiku who was able to get a touch to it before it can reach Gnabry
03:46Havertz
03:48how many bodies centrally
03:51Germany are playing with
03:52Gnabry thought about it initially and Benjamin Asari was more of a passenger on that strike than anything
04:03Can't have her once more
04:06and he certainly likes to match up with Kojo Apong but Apong has to disground the
04:1121-year-old
04:12Adu trying to utilize his pace against Nathaniel Brown and the Frankfurt defender
04:17doing well
04:18but does concede a corner in the process the first of the night for Ghana
04:21that's really well done from Prince Adu
04:26Havertz good feet and he wins the free kick and gets another little how do you do from his former
04:31teammate Thomas Partey
04:36delicious looking ball Asari got a touch to it it's loose in front
04:39still pinballing around it's Jonathan Todd he sends it over the crossbar
04:42looking for a second goal in two games it sat up ever so nicely for the center back and it
04:48will be a corner
04:49Nagelman on the sideline is just trying to figure out how this hasn't found the back of the net
05:00that ball in behind is a delicious one for Voltamata leaves it for Florian Gnertz
05:07but the offside flag is up it was on the initial run from Voltamata
05:12but to your point there about the transition moments for Ghana
05:16Germany have looked vulnerable
05:18chances to give you that go ahead
05:21here's Pertz again weaving his way through and a block in front
05:24now the question is is that arm going to
05:32Kai Havertz
05:35scores
05:37with calm and with ease
05:40and Germany get their deserving goal at the end of this first half
05:57Germany definitely had to be patient
05:59and it took it to stoppage time in this first half for them to break the deadlock and it's kind
06:03of
06:03average from the penalty spot calm and composed as you like
06:09the Arsenal man steps up to get his 21st international goal
06:13in a first half that saw Germany very dominant in possession but just lacking that clinical finish
06:20they get the clinical edge from the penalty spot
06:23kind of feel hard done these two games in a row now would have conceded the first goal
06:27lights and sounds of his of his fan base here
06:30but to your point about the significance of these matches these are this season
06:34nine goals last year 18 goals and 10 assists two seasons ago for stuttgart
06:41and vert somehow keeps it alive for nathaniel brown he's got time and space to deliver and the
06:45header coming in for thomas parte was almost on frame and and turn it
06:53sent in towards the back stick available for antonio rudiger and it was blocked before
06:58it could reach benjamin asari once more then again it's more last-ditch defending for ghana
07:07sorry off his line once more and who was able to qualify
07:14in the first 45 minutes clever little dummy nathaniel brown for pascal grosin
07:19couldn't quite open up his hips and easy work in the end for benjamin asari
07:25this is a clever ball here from nathaniel ton semenyo on his way
07:30sizing up antonio rudiger great matchup peels it back across and that was the best chance of the
07:34night so far for ghana and the black star faithful thought that they had their equalizing goal in the
07:39corner from ghana
07:46and the follow-up chance is denied that was alexander jiku and that was one of the more
07:56scintillating moves we've seen from germany all night
08:00that's the second really big chance that both of monetize in this game if you go back to the
08:05opening what was it five six minutes where he has the chance off the cutback this time it's more
08:10traditional center forward play really slick football clever movement the initial touch from
08:16voltamata that opens up the game and then it's a free header it's a free header that he
08:26carl trying to keep it in play union berlin man on top of the set piece finding jordan ayu in
08:31space
08:31tries to put it on frame and look like it might have taken a deflection still waiting for the
08:36first word from the referee stewart atwell this is straight off the training ground you see the
08:42game and a and players all split and feudage
08:48decent looking ball in let it carl cushions it down it's gonna black stars with
08:53kimmick standing over it and we'll be around and that's a decent looking effort that had the
08:58interest of a sorry for a moment
09:02well we've seen
09:06kimmick figured why not in a camp while you're so far away from your respective club and your actual
09:12home as kuhn turns the corner good chance here and fatahou scores germany picked apart
09:18and abdul fatahou has been on the field for just several minutes and ghana are leveling stuttgart
09:37despite germany's dominance for loris felt in this game the vulnerability was there defensively
09:46and the feeling was always one of such that if ghana could just execute and be
09:5320 year old caleb uran game took a clever was angled towards voltamata falls for carl
10:01voltamata heavy first touch coming off is carl slicing up the good day in defense
10:06leaves it for leroi sonny on rushing to keep the ball because you've been defending for such large
10:11periods of time
10:19free for a 20 year old
10:21first touch the trees just oozing confidence this is
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