All 11 of Germany’s EURO 2024 goals, ranked

The hosts are out but their entertaining run will not soon be forgotten.

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Germany scored 11 goals and conceded thrice at EURO 2024. Let’s take a look back and relieve them all — ranking them from ordinary to most extraordinary.

11. Kai Havertz — 45+1’ (P), Scotland

The first of two penalties for Germany. Jamal Musiala dribbles through a thicket of bodies to find İlkay Gündoğan, who lays it back for Joshua Kimmich. The Bayern Munich right-back’s cross floats in for Gündoğan, whose header is too strong for Scotland keeper Angus Gunn. Havertz overruns the rebound but it falls for Gündoğan, who gets taken out by a straight red card challenge from Scotland defender Ryan Porteous. It’s up to Havertz to convert the penalty and he does it coolly.

10. Kai Havertz — 53’ (P), Denmark

Germany’s penalty maestro strikes again. Kasper Schmeichel guesses the right way but the Arsenal striker places it perfectly, rolling it into the bottom right corner.

The penalty was awarded after review, courtesy of the match ball’s embedded sensor technology registering a clear second impact off Joachim Andersen’s fingertips following a David Raum cross. A cruel turn for Andersen, who moments ago had a would-be opening goal chopped off by VAR for an offside by, no exaggeration, the slimmest of margins.

9. Jamal Musiala — 22’, Hungary

Germany picks up in the second game where it left off. Florian Wirtz on the wing connects to Musiala in the center, who tries a tricky chip in towards İlkay Gündoğan. The Barça man doesn’t quite reach it but neither does anyone else, and shows incredible industry in fighting for the loose ball. He lays it back towards Musiala and it’s all too easy for the Germans in the end.

8. Emre Can — 90+3’, Scotland

A carbon copy of Germany’s fourth goal from the opener shows off Julian Nagelsmann’s attacking automatisms. Thomas Müller makes the same run for the same position as the man he came into the game for, Gündoğan, which led to the fourth goal. This time Leroy Sané is threading the ball through and Emre Can is the one to run onto it.

7. Niclas Füllkrug — 68’, Scotland

Here is the reason Germany fans get so excited every time the Borussia Dortmund striker strides onto the pitch. Musiala’s inch-perfect pass threads through to Gündoğan in the box, and the veteran lays it back first time for anyone to run onto. Füllkrug was there and strikes it ferociously to put the game well out of reach.

6. Jamal Musiala — 19’, Scotland

Toni Kroos slips the ball through the lines to İlkay Gündoğan, who turns and drives into space. The FC Barcelona star slices through everybody to deliver a pass into the box for Kai Havertz, whose hesitation rewards him for the first and last time in the tournament as he picks out Musiala. The Bayern wonderkid takes a touch away from his marker and lashes home. A fantastic team goal.

5. Florian Wirtz — 10’, Scotland

The first goal of the entire tournament came in just the 10th minute of the opening match. Germany squeeze Scotland narrow and Toni Kroos finds wing-back Joshua Kimmich for the switch. İlkay Gündoğan makes a forward run from attacking midfield, clearing the space behind him. Kimmich slots into that space and Wirtz, arriving late, latches on first time to send the home crowd into raptures.

Another look at the same goal.

4. İlkay Gündoğan — 67’, Hungary

Hungary knocked on the door a few times in Germany’s second group stage match, threatening to steal a point off the hosts if they didn’t tidy up. But Gündoğan put the game away midway through the second half, firing home from near the penalty spot from a Maximilian Mittelstädt cross. Musiala makes the hockey assist, and also drops back to combine with Niclas Füllkrug — who peeled away towards the far post — to clear space for Gündoğan. The captain sweeps it home.

3. Niclas Füllkrug — 90+2’, Switzerland

Germany was headed towards defeat in its final group stage match until Niclas Füllkrug’s towering and well-placed header in stoppage time finally beat Yann Sommer. A well-worked goal from a David Raum cross…but did the result, which landed Germany in the more difficult side of the bracket, cut short Germany’s run in the knockouts?

2. Jamal Musiala — 68’, Denmark

Nico Schlotterbeck provided an otherworldly assist out of central defense, hitting a long ball over the top that Denmark keeper Schmeichel started to go for before thinking better of it. But there were no good options. Musiala took it at a gallop and picked out the far corner with pinpoint accuracy. Good thing the Bayern man didn’t miss — he had teammate Leroy Sané blazing free towards the far post and could have gone for the tap-in. But Musiala chose magic, and delivered.

Julian Nagelsmann was amped, too. But then again, when is he not?

1. Florian Wirtz — 89’, Spain

Germany’s final goal of the tournament was also its best. Facing elimination, the seconds ticking away, Germany threw everything it had against Spain until it finally paid off. It isn’t enough to simply spam crosses. Bayern right-back Joshua Kimmich showed his monster mentality by out-dueling Marc Cucurella at the far post, and at the same time ice-cold composure by knocking it back, but not too strong, straight into the danger zone. Leverkusen maestro Florian Wirtz was Johnny-on-the-spot, pouncing before the ball even landed at his feet — and lashing his strike into the ground and towards the inside of the post.

The strike gave Germany hope again and ensured that whatever happened, the team would not exit the tournament with a whimper — but rather with their heads held high.