With one week to go before the start of the 2024 European Championship, host nation Germany came from behind to beat Greece 2-1 in their final friendly ahead of the tournament.

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Germany 2-1 Greece
Goals: 0-1 Masouras (34’), 1-1 Havertz 56’ (assist: Sané), 2-1 Groß (89')

Greece may not have qualified for EURO 2024 but they began determined to show they should have done, and they put Julian Nagelsmann’s side under pressure early on at Borussia-Park. Manuel Neuer was forced to make a brilliant double save from Fortuna Düsseldorf’s Christos Tzolis in just the sixth minute to keep the game goalless, and it wasn’t until the 22nd minute that Germany mustered their first real effort, but Jamal Musiala’s attempt from the edge of the box was comfortably gathered by goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos. Greece edged in front just after the half-hour mark when Neuer could only parry another Tzolis shot into the path of Georgios Masouras, who tapped in the rebound. Jonathan Tah could have equalised just before the interval, but the Bayer Leverkusen defender headed wide from a Toni Kroos free-kick.

Nagelsmann introduced Leroy Sané and David Raum at the interval, and the former was involved in Germany’s equaliser early in the second half. The Bayern winger skipped forward down the right on a counter-attack and fed the ball into Kai Havertz, who executed a superb turn before levelling the score. Kroos’ set pieces were a source of danger throughout, and look set to be a valuable weapon for Germany at EURO 2024, with the towering Tah and Antonio Rüdiger imposing targets to aim at. Tah lashed a volley wide in the closing stages as Germany pushed for a winner, while Nico Schlotterbeck had an effort saved, Benjamin Henrichs hit the crossbar with a thundering drive from outside the box, and Niclas Füllkrug had a header thwarted by the goalkeeper. Their pressure eventually took its toll, with substitute Pascal Groß firing in a last-minute winner to give Germany a confidence-boosting result ahead of next week's big tournament opener against Scotland. 

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Match stats

• Havertz scored his 16th international goal on his 46th outing for Germany.
• Groß's goal was his first at senior level for Germany.
• Füllkrug is Germany’s top scorer in the Nagelsmann era with four goals from six games (plus an assist). Havertz is next with three.
• Nagelsmann’s record in charge of the national team (all friendly matches) is four wins, two draws and two defeats.
• Germany have never lost against Greece, with seven wins and three draws. The most recent encounter prior to this game was a 4-2 win in the quarter-finals of Euro 2012.
• No players from Greece appeared in the Bundesliga this past season, but Tzolis finished as joint-top scorer in the second division with 22 goals for Düsseldorf.

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Line-ups

Germany: Neuer - Kimmich (Henrichs 68'), Tah, Rüdiger (Schlotterbeck 69'), Mittelstädt (Raum 46') - Kroos, Andrich (Groß 68') - Musiala, Gündoğan (c) (Füllkrug 68'), Wirtz (Sané 46') - Havertz
Unused subs: Baumann, Beier, Führich, Koch, Müller, Pavlović, Ter Stegen, Undav
Out: - 
Coach: Julian Nagelsmann

Greece: Vlachodimos (Athanasiadis 78') - Rota, Mavropanos, Hatzidiakos, Giannoulis - Siopis, Mantalos (Kourbelis 78') - Bakasetas (Bouchalakis 68') - Masouras (Douvikas 68'), Ioannidis (Pavlidis 10'), Tzolis
Unused subs: Mandas, Tzolakis, Kotsiras, Koulierakis, Kyriakopoulos, Ntoi, Retsos, Saliakas, Limnios, Tsingaras
Out: 
Coach: Nikos Papadopoulos

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