Germany 3-0 Russia: Sane scores his 1st international goal as Gnabry on target

Manchester City's Leroy Sane scored his first goal for Germany in his 16th appearance, after being left out of the World Cup squad.

Match Events

8'GOAL! Germany 1-0 Russia (Sane)

GOAL! SANE BREAKS THE DEADLOCK! The Manchester City winger sidefoots the ball past Lunev after more possession play from the home side conducted by Kimmich, finding Kehrer who picks out Gnabry. The Bayern Munich man outpaces and stretches the visiting defence, and cuts the ball on to the onrushing Sane who finishes with ease! 1-0 to the Germans!

23' CHANCE! Sane's header saved

25'GOAL! Germany 2-0 Russia (Sule)

GOAL! GERMANY DOUBLE THEIR LEAD! The hosts win a corner off Dzhikiya, and Kimmich floats the set-piece in towards the huge figure of Rudiger, but the Chelsea defender can only knock it down towards Sule, who finds himself in space in the penalty area and calmly strokes the ball past Lunev! 2-0 to Low’s youngsters, and they are cruising in Leipzig!

40'GOAL! Germany 3-0 Russia (Gnabry)

GOAL!! AND GERMANY GET THEIR THIRD!! Russia get caught napping again by a rampant home side, as Havertz unlocks the visiting defence with a pin-point throughball that Gnabry runs on to before hitting it past Lunev and nestling it into the top-left corner! 3-0 to the Germans, and they are running riot right now!

Match Report

Leroy Sane showed Germany what they were missing at the World Cup as he scored his first goal for his country in a comfortable 3-0 friendly win over Russia on Thursday.

The Manchester City winger, who was controversially left out of Germany's squad before their shambolic title defence at Russia 2018, slotted home Germany's early opener and tormented Stanislav Cherchesov's side with his pace as Die Mannschaft cantered to a morale-boosting victory.

Joachim Low's men went into the game on the back of consecutive Nations League defeats to Netherlands and France but further first-half goals from Niklas Sule and Serge Gnabry put the game beyond the visitors.

The result was a welcome one for the beleaguered Low but he is unlikely to enjoy such a strong performance for long if his men fail to embark on a spell of form and avoid Nations League relegation.

Line-ups

Germany XI: M. Neuer, J. Hector, A. Rüdiger, N. Süle, Gnabry, M. Ginter, T. Werner, J. Kimmich, Kehrer, Sané, Havertz

Subs: M. Hummels, T. Müller, S. Rudy, K. Trapp, M. Reus, B. Leno, Schulz, L. Goretzka, J. Brandt, J.Tah

Russia XI: Ari, K. Nababkin, A. Ionov, A. Erokhin, K.Rausch, R. Neustädter, Y. Gazinskiy, A. Lunev, G. Dzhikiya, D. Kuzyaev, Aleksey Miranchuk

Subs: F. Kudryashov, A. Shunin, Guilherme, V. Ignatyev, Ruslan Kambolov, A. Semenov, A. Zabolotnyi, D. Poloz, Pavel Mogilevets, Anton Miranchuk, E. Sorokin, F. Chalov