Chelsea stars – Kai Havertz and Timo Werner were both on target to help Germany extend their winning run with a 2-0 victory over Israel during their international friendly on Saturday night.
The hosts won by a comfortable margin, with both goals coming in the first half at the PreZero Stadium.
Germany entered the match having won all seven of their World Cup qualifiers, finishing first in their group and keeping five clean sheets in the process.
While Israel has won five of their past ten games, they came into this encounter on the heels of a 3-2 victory against the Faroe Islands in November.
Goals from Kai Havertz & Timo Werner ⚽️ ⚽️
Germany 🇩🇪 2-0 Israel 🇮🇱960th German International Match
Is a Chelsea Thing 💙 pic.twitter.com/9wFwN4eFqk— ³⁰ (@CFCMid) March 26, 2022
Havertz gave the home team the lead 36 minutes into the game by flicking a corner in at the near post.
Raum curled in a wonderful corner, putting the Chelsea forward in front of the spectators in the box. Marciano could only watch as his header nestled into the back of his net after he flicked it on at the near post.
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Before the halftime, Werner tucked Gundogan’s free-kick past Marciano to double the lead for the Hansi Flick side.
Germany won a free-kick slightly beyond the box which was taken by Gundogan and Werner pulls away to slot in near post. The Chelsea winger got in front of Avraham to help push the ball past Marciano and into the near bottom corner.
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Werner could have doubled his tally of the night but had the goal was called out for offside, and Germany was awarded a late penalty, which Muller slammed off the outside of the post.
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In the final minute, Israel had a chance to get a consolation goal from the penalty spot, but Trapp got down to prevent Cohen’s effort.
Our boiz dey deliver for both their club and country!! 🔵🇩🇪
HT | Germany 2-0 Israel #GERISR
36' | KING Kai Havertz ⚽
46' | Timo "TURBO" Werner ⚽#ChelseaFC | #CFC | #Chelsea | #CFCPidgin pic.twitter.com/LPLSYSSUQO— Chelsea FC in Pidgin (@ChelseaPidginFC) March 26, 2022
Germany has won each of their past eight matches in all competitions, and they will travel to the Netherlands for their final friendly before the Nations League on Tuesday.
Israel, on the other hand, will also be hosting Romania in a friendly match.
A solid win coupled with a clean sheet 💪🇩🇪#DieMannschaft #GERISR#Germany #TheTeamGermany #GermanyFootball #GermanySoccer pic.twitter.com/xZPhxnRRlO
— The Team Germany Football (@TheTeamGermany) March 26, 2022
🎙 “There are differences in the style of play between football at Chelsea and here. Maybe the one at the national team suits me better. Here, I always have scoring chances, I can score goals. I feel very comfortable here.” – Timo Werner
𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕? 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒙!
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