Germany vs. Ghana - prediction, team news, lineups

Reeling from a dense decision astatine the hands of Austria, Ghana look an adjacent much hard situation connected Monday erstwhile they instrumentality connected in-form Germany astatine MHPArena successful different warm-up lucifer for the 2026 World Cup.

Otto Addo’s men person present suffered 3 defeats successful a row, and they volition request a importantly improved show to debar slipping to a 4th against a broadside connected a six-match winning run.

Match preview

Ghana’s lack from the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations meant that the Black Stars’ level heading into Friday’s affable against Austria was unclear, with their past competitory crippled taking spot past October.

Although they faced Ralf Rangnick’s squad successful a tune-up lucifer for this summer’s World Cup, fewer would person anticipated the 5-1 hammering suffered by the West African giants, who person present mislaid 3 connected the bounce since defeating Comoros 1-0 successful October.

Having suffered 2-0 and 1-0 losses to Japan and South Korea successful November, conceding 5 for the archetypal clip since a 5-0 thrashing by Saudi Arabia successful September 2007 underlined the daze of their latest setback.

More worrying inactive was the second-half illness that saw Addo’s squad concede 4 goals, having fto successful lone a 12th-minute Marcel Sabitzer punishment earlier half-time.

Fortunately for Ghana, the Black Stars inactive person clip — albeit lone 3 months — to enactment close the wrongs of Friday’s humiliation earlier their World Cup opener against Panama connected 18 June.

However, the task appears adjacent tougher connected Monday, erstwhile they indispensable someway find answers against an in-form Germany broadside connected an awesome winning run.

Die Nationalelf’s closing series of victories successful World Cup qualifying was built connected cleanable sheets successful 4 of 5 games against Luxembourg (4-0, 2-0), Northern Ireland (1-0) and Slovakia (6-0), truthful fewer expected a goal-fest against Switzerland.

Nonetheless, a high-scoring brushwood unfolded successful Basel arsenic the DFB squad came from 1-0 and 2-1 down to triumph 4-3 aft a Florian Wirtz-inspired show astatine St Jakob-Park.

The Leverkusen prima had a nonstop manus successful each 4 goals, scoring doubly and providing 2 assists from the left, with licence to drift into the inside-left transmission and cardinal areas to devastating effect.

Nagelsmann whitethorn beryllium inclined to marque changes to the broadside that extended the four-time satellite champions’ winning streak, but immoderate XI sent retired successful Stuttgart volition beryllium fancied to inflict further misery connected the Black Stars, adjacent if determination are nary contiguous consequences for triumph oregon defeat.

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Team News

Although Antoine Semenyo, Jordan Ayew and Thomas Partey played 86 minutes successful the humiliation by Austria, each 3 could commencement successful Stuttgart, with Addo apt to sanction a beardown side.

The West Africans whitethorn marque changes astatine full-back, with Gideon Mensah and Marvin Senaya replacing Derrick Kohn and Caleb Yirenkyi astatine left-back and right-back, respectively.

Ayew netted his 34th planetary extremity successful the dense nonaccomplishment to Austria, and the guardant volition anticipation to adhd to that tally successful a much affirmative effect for his side.

The hosts whitethorn marque a raft of changes to the squad that contested a seven-goal thriller with Switzerland, with Nagelsmann tempted to springiness Bayern Munich’s Lennart Karl his archetypal Germany start.

Karl replaced Leroy Sane aft 63 minutes successful Basel, and the erstwhile Bayern brag could opt to commencement the 18-year-old, fixed that the crippled volition beryllium played connected location ungraded and against out-of-form opposition.

Nick Woltemade could pb the enactment with Kai Havertz handed a breather, portion Pascal Gross and Anton Stach whitethorn travel successful for Angelo Stiller and Leon Goretzka successful midfield.

At the back, in-demand Eintracht Frankfurt left-back Nathaniel Brown could commencement up of David Raum, portion Antonio Rudiger and Malick Thiaw whitethorn get the motion astatine centre-back.

Germany imaginable starting lineup:

Baumann; Kimmich, Thiaw, Rudiger, Brown; Gnabry, Gross, Stach; Karl, Woltemade, Schade

Ghana imaginable starting lineup:

Ghana: Zigi; Senaya, Pfeiffer, Djiku, Mensah; Issahaku, Partey, Sulemana, Semenyo; Adu, Ayew

We say: Germany 3-0 Ghana

Otto Addo’s men whitethorn commencement brightly successful an effort to banish the representation of their second-half illness against Austria, but Germany’s extent successful attacking areas should yet deterioration them down arsenic the European heavyweights easiness to a comfy victory.

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