Germany vs Ivory Coast Highlights 🌎🏆 2026 FIFA World Cup

Julian Nagelsmann retains an unchanged Germany side from the 11 that started the 7-1 victory over Curaçao. 40-year-old Manuel Neuer becomes the most capped Germany goalkeeper at a World Cup, breaking the record of Jens Lehmann. Defender Jonathan Thar could have played for Ivory Coast due to his mother. Metcher and Pavlovic anchor the midfield. Jamal Mousiala continues to work his way back to full fitness after severe injury last summer. Leroy Zane keeps his place despite criticism in the German media for his performance against Curaçao. For Ivory Coast, MS Fahy makes five changes to the side to beat Ecuador 1-0. Wilfried Singo moves over to right back. Odilon Cusunu comes into partner Emmanuel Agbidu. Geladoua and Seiko Fafana are on yellow cards and drop to the bench. Ibrahim Sangare and Christ Ulayi come into midfield. Ahmad Diallo of Manchester United comes in from the start after scoring the late match winner post. All in orange and a place in the last 32 is the effort they're taking today. Hot effort by Havertz. Germany awaking, wasting no time whatsoever. On the front foot after scoring them seven goals. Jacob, we've been lucky enough to be at four stadiums. This just has a feel of a proper game. Metcalf, Pavlovic, Metcalf scored in the last game. Timmy, oh that's a clever header. That is a very handy save from Fafana. A little bit of vulnerability at the back post and then it's a wonderful delivery and Kai Havertz has got great technique, great ability just to try and get it off the bounce and Kiba does well to come across but I think they've started the game really well. When they have the ball at the back, they're quite happy to let Brown on that left hand side push up. To join this guy. Oh what about the strike? That's an excellent, excellent effort from Jamal Noziala. I just love his feet when he gets into the area. Just watching, have the ball under control. Fizz into him, touch. The second touch gets out of his feet and then he's just trying to guide that into the corner and from this angle just get straight on the ball. Rather than get his foot around it like a Beckham type of effort, he's hit it straight on but again just the signs that they have, the little thumbs up. Oh and that's a nice ball into the feet of Kai Havertz. His movement is so good. Now here's Metscher. He's full of confidence. Let's know what's coming. Kimmich. Oh and that'll be pulled back. Surely the ball's in the back of the net. Well is that a foul on the goalkeeper? Yeah the foul against the goalkeeper. Those don't tend to stand. It wasn't an actual foul. There was contact but not enough. Judge for yourself. Yeah I think you look at the arm there on the face. From the, when you looked at the back, sure it was just a collision but he led with his arm. He's having a very forward thinking and that's a decade ago he was doing things like that. Diomande always wants to run at defenders. He's up against the great Joshua Kimmich here. He's got the better of him as well. Diomande what a ball. Surely it's 1-0. It is now and it's the skipper Frank Kassier to put Ivory Coast in front against the four-time world champions. The teenage superstar setting up the legend of the Ivory Coast. So Kimmich has shown him the line and you don't want to do that when someone's quicker than you but that's the great part about them. They can't get across and what a wonderful finish. There's your first block. You think you've saved the day and there's your captain leading in poking it in the back of the net but I'm telling you if someone's quicker than you, you cannot show him the end line. He gets out and what a nice little finish as well. He didn't hesitate. He's made that run in behind. We see it in the opening moments of the game. He's quite happy to do that. They are in dreamland. Don't tell me this game doesn't mean anything. There were suggestions given that five changes for this game. The last to run at defences. Bonnie. Bonnie going for goal. Manuel Neuer saw it all the way. There's a 40-year-old just picking it out there at his position there. There was a sign the turnover. Silly. No. Take any unnecessary risk. Oh and it could be in here Germany. Surely. Havertz. Oh and the referee has stopped play. Well Ivory Coast living so so dangerously and so nearly punished. He let the foul go for what it seemed like at least two three seconds. It was a foul as the ball gets stuck under the feet here and comes across but he didn't blow the whistle. It sort of kept going and allowed the momentum of the game. Let's bring in Mark Klappenberg. What did you make of that Mark? Why did he wait to blow the whistle? Yeah because we're so used to in the past of allowing. It just comes to a standstill then you know where the Ivory Coast when they get into them areas. Zane. Zane. Oh that's lovely play. And now Havertz. Couldn't get the power on the final effort. I'm thinking a little topo. Then you can get some power. Couldn't quite get out of his feet. There's a certain fella in the studio that would have improvised there. Has it just come stuck under his feet. It was on side. Clearly on side. Just got stuck. Put your toe through it. Just poke it as hard as you can. It might end up in the back of the neck. A little bit of frustration by the Germans. Here's a skip up on Kessier. Finally Amad Diallo. Talking on Brown. Kessier's in again. Looking for a second goal of the game. He does that so well. He drives through the heart of the defence. Then he gets the ball and number eight will just stand still. His next thought is I want to go forward. He does it. Got the goal. It might be one of them. There's Amad Diallo now. Receiving it from Ulayi. Wanted on his left foot. Ulayi. What an opportunity. Just slightly behind him. But again on the pace. Their first thought is can I take you on. Wonderful feat. He breaks the press. Now he picks the decision out on this right hand side. But look at him just wait for the ball. And he just got it stuck under his feet. He's just glorious arena. Downtown as Amad Diallo as he shirt pulls. We have the perfect angle. The referee didn't. Diallo and Kessier. He's so difficult to pick up Kessier because he drifts into areas. He don't stand in there. He doesn't walk in there. Just watch now the top of the screen in the middle. As he gets it one on one. He's not already there. He's just waiting. And then he's guiding himself in there. Just doesn't run into the areas. He's not already standing still. So Rüdiger can come across and block him off. Kimmich looking to float it in towards Wirtz. Amad Diallo away by Amad Diallo for a corner to Germany. It was going to make the substitution but just said no wait. Will it be different this time for Germany? No. Let's give the Germans a little bit of time to make them substitution. He's already down on the ground. Now the triple sub to be made. Musiala making way. Zane making way. Musiala remember still working his way back to full fitness. Full confidence after his horrific injury last summer. Pavlovic also coming off. The midfielder with labeling coming on. Amiri and Undarv. Here's Undarv denied again by Singo. You can tell what the German fans think about it. They're starting to get behind their team. They're starting to believe that they can cause this back line a little bit of problem. Don't forget in qualification, the Leverkusen didn't concede a goal. They won eight games, drew two and didn't concede a goal. So they have that mentality to suffer, to handle the pressure, togetherness, that spirit. They kept a clean sheet, got the goal in the dying moments of the game. And they try again from the corner. Kimmich again. A slightly different outcome. Havertz on the end of it that time. He's not too convincing even with that foul that was here. He's not too convincing. He's stretching there. Havertz has got to go back across the goal. It's quite a tame header in the end. You know, I think if you head it back towards, it might come off of someone's shoulder. Players to behave. That's Kimmich with another corner for Germany and away by Fafana. As far as Amiri. I think the players are asking the same question. He's stretching for the ball. Just watch maybe as he lands. Only he knows. Only he knows. He can sit there and guess one of his own players that hit him in the back. So if that's what he's saying, it wasn't a contact from a German player. 51B was dotted around the old town as Germany attack once again. And Havertz. Oh, and this time it's the substitute Dennis Onda who finally breaks through for Germany. It's been a long, long time in coming. Totally delighted. Again, the two subs coming in. What a ball. What a delivery. No pressure on the ball. The two subs. And I told you he's a finisher. That is a difficult technique, but he just let it kiss off his foot. He doesn't have to put the power, the weight of the ball is perfect. And he just lets it cushion off his foot. Look how composed he is. Look how relaxed he is when he goes in the back of the net. That's when a coach earns his money. He made the change, took players off, put a goal scorer on. They are absolutely delighted. And they are back in this game. They believe. Dennis Onda finding on the waterfront here at Exhibition Place, just west of downtown. And Frank Kessier deep in conversation with the left back, Conor. As if to say, right, we need to step up again. We've played so well so far. Now there's going to be a triple change. Well, Gesson is coming on first of all. Levan Gesson. That's a player in the World Cup. Looking ball in towards Gesson. But Tah was there first. He's here to win it. Onda with a lovely turn. Losing his power and going for goal as well. Why not? When you're in the goal scoring form that he's in. It's Onda at Stuttgart these days. Having had a spell at Brighton and in Belgium too. Now Ivory Coast on the charge. Nicolas Pepe has Gesson in the centre. On this could be the moment for Ivory Coast. But a dingerous touch let him down at the back. About the movement up top for him. There's nothing in the moment apart from Witz. And Brown. What a save. He's vulnerable from crosses. Brown's come in again. The energy that this kid has shown. That the attitude and the concentration when the goal down going down to his left. Everyone around us is standing up across there on the other side. Leverling. So slow open isn't it? He's trying to slow down. It is. It's in the Germans point of view. They want to have control. They want to have possession. They want to work their way up there. But it's becoming a end-to-end game. And they don't particularly want that. Particularly with the firepower that Ivory Coast have got breaking now. And you're thinking he's rolled it to him. Perfect. Now just hit it with your right foot. That's a real tough game. The Ivory Coast in theory. Just to put the Germans into the knockout round for the first time since 2014. Well you never write off the Germans. That's the saying in Europe. Same applies in North America. But just look as the ball is played in. He's onside. That was my first thought. Good touch. But he is a natural finisher. He is a goal scoring machine. He doesn't look at the goal. That ain't moving. What a finish. The touch at the highest level. And he just drills that into the back of that. That's where all the German fans are behind. What a moment. What a substitution. And what a finisher. Julian Nagelsmann's changes have made the difference. And that's when we were in the mess earlier. That's when he knew he sort of took his chance. And that's the fine line. We know your name my friend. We know your name. Simon Odinga is absolutely devastated. It had opened right up for him up the other end. But he cut inside instead of taking his chance. Well just the awareness of course. On top of that if there's a goal. And that's it. It's all over. Germany are in the last 32 for the first time since they won it in Brazil. Julian Nagelsmann's changes making all the difference. The subs combining. And Dennis Unda, the main man. And he's deserved that cuddle from his boss. Germany having come from behind.