Germany flirted with chaos and ridicule against Ivory Coast, who after having them down 1-0 by Franck Kessié in the 30th minute, failed to handle the result to allow Deniz Undav, with goals at 66 and 90 4, to turn the score around to add a distressing victory.

The Stuttgart striker of Kurdish origin, but born in Germany, jumped off the bench to resolve the match for coach Julian Nagelsmann, who got tired of colliding with an orange wall for 60 minutes of the match until Undav appeared, who jumped onto the field from the bench to put on the cape and become a hero.

Unsav's goals saved the Germans from failure, who had reasons to celebrate the 21 World Cup matches of German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, which was the key to Germany staying in the game and with many options to advance to the next phase.

The surprise in the game was that Ivory Coast did not limit itself to resisting or playing a toss against the Germans, but was aggressive and put a lot of pressure in the center of the field, in addition to putting Joshua Kimmich in trouble.

In the actions, Germany was more powerful when Kai Havertz warned as soon as he started with a high shot and then forced Yahia Fofana to intervene with a dangerous header; then Jamal Musiala also came close to scoring in the 17th minute, with a shot that went very close to the post. But German rule was more territorial than forceful.

But then Ivory Coast grew with its physical power, causing Ange-Yoan Bonny to appear on both sides to help Amad Diallo threaten inside the area and Diomande shook up the game every time he received an open shot.

The effort brought dividends in the 29th minute when Diomande started the action from the left, Amad could not finish against the German defense and the rebound was open to Franck Kessié, who hit with authority to make it 0-1.

The German reaction

The advantage of the Africans caused Germany to become chaos on the field, which caused the arrivals to be clear to the goal of Neuer, who began to play as a libero to freeze the fast arrivals of the Ivorians.

The definitive reaction seemed to come with the German triple change of match time. Nadiem Amiri, Deniz Undav and Jamie Leweling came in for Pavlovic, Musiala and Leroy Sané. The changes gave more energy and depth to Germany, who increased the pressure and began to trap Ivory Coast in their area.

The tie came in the 68th minute. Amiri filtered a perfect cross, Undav controlled inside the area and scored against Yahia Fofana. It was a clean play, with few touches, born from one of the few Ivorian defensive errors, after Odilon Kossounou was unable to clear the previous delivery with a header.

The match opened at 1-1. Côte d'Ivoire, which had fallen back too much after the break, recovered meters with the changes of Simon Adingra, Seko Fofana and Evann Guessand.

Later, Guela Doué replaced the injured Wilfried Singo and Nicolas Pépé came on for Diomande, who left the field after having been the most disruptive attacker on his team.

Germany had the best final chances. Yahia Fofana sustained Côte d'Ivoire with a great stretch against Nathaniel Brown in the 89th minute and, a minute later, he responded again to Amiri's centered shot from the penalty spot. Côte d'Ivoire was also able to win it in a run by Pépé down the right, but Adingra failed to control it alone in front of goal.

When the tie seemed final, Undav appeared again. In the 90 4 minute, the German striker benefited from a marking error by Emmanuel Agbadou, the Ivorian number 20, and buried the ball in the net to complete the German comeback.