Euro 2024 hosts Germany ease to victory against tournament favourites France
Florian Wirtz scored after just seven seconds as Germany grabbed a surprise 2-0 friendly win over France in Lyon.
The 20-year-old Bayer Leverkusen forward struck moments after 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 years after announcing his international retirement.
Straight from the whistle, the 34-year-old chipped the ball forward to Wirtz, who had darted to midway inside the France half.
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Wirtz controlled the ball, took two more touches as he strolled forward before lashing his shot 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 the 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 Ecuador in 2013.
France dominated the rest of the first half but Marcus 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 shank 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.
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