Florian Wirtz scored after just seven seconds as Germany grabbed a surprise 2-0 friendly win over France in Lyon. (More Football News)
The 20-year-old Bayer Leverkusen forward struck moments afte💛r kick-off as the Euro 2024 hosts stunned the tournament favourites.
There was also an immediate assist for Toni Kroos, back in a Germany shirt three yꦫears after announcing his iꦫnternational retirement.
Straight from the whistle, the🌳 34-year-old chipped the ball forward to Wirtz, 💯who had darted to midway inside the France half.
Wirtz controlled the ball, took two more touches as he strolled forward before lashing his shotﷺ home from 20 yards.
It was the youngster’s first goal for his country and would have been the fastest international goal on record had Austria’s Christoph Baumgartner not opened t꧅he scoring after six seconds in his country’s friendly against Slovakia earlier on Saturday.
The previous quickest was Lukas Podolski’s💟 strike for Germany against Ecuador𝕴 in 2013.
France dominated the rest of the first half but M🦹arcus Thuram side-footed their first decent chance over the crossbar from the edge of the box.
Kylian Mbappe then brought down a cross in the area only to sℱhank🧸 his shot wide, before Aurelien Tchouameni skied a cross from Ousmane Dembele.
But Germany made it to half-time in front and promptly doubled their🥃 lead three minutes into the🎉 second half.
Wirtz turned provider, lifting the ball into the path of Jamal Musiala,ไ who drove diagona⛄lly round France goalkeeper Brice Samba.
The Bayern Munich winger reached the byline before pulling the ball ꦇ🦄back for Arsenal forward Havertz to slot in his 15th international goal.
Mbappe, enduring a quiet evening, got himself booked after a tusslওe with Robert Andrich before firing an ambitious shot wide.
Stuttgart defender Ma𒁃ximilian Mittelstadt almost made it a debut to remember 10 minutes from full-time when he strode forward and fired goalwards.
His shot looked destined to nestle inside the far post until Samba stretched to get a fingertip to the ball🐭 and divert it wide.
Samba also denied Thomas Muller with a fineไ one-handed save after the substitute shot from 14 yards.
Mittelstadt was spared a comical own goal late on by a goal-line clearance fro🦹m Antonio Rud🥀iger, who sliced the ball onto his own crossbar to cap an ultimately disappointing night for the French.
