Borussia Mönchengladbach’s Florian Neuhaus and RB Leipzig’s Yussuf Poulsen exchanged goals as Germany and Denmark drew 1-1 in their pre-Euro 2020 friendly, as Thomas Müller and Mats Hummels returned to the international stage.

Germany 1-1 Denmark
Goals: 1-0 Neuhaus (48’), 1-1 Poulsen (71’)

Germany dominated the first half of the game and it was Gladbach's Neuhaus who had the first telling effort when running onto the ball and driving a left-footed effort at Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. The best chance fell to the returning Müller, though, after a lovely long ball from Bayern Munich teammate Joshua Kimmich into the box. The Raumdeuter interpreted the space perfectly, but only put his header at Schmeichel. Another recently crowned Bundesliga champion had the next chance after Neuhaus’ dug out a ball, but Leroy Sane fired over from close range. Robin Gosens had a powerful drive deflected behind before Serge Gnabry rattled the crossbar with a curling effort from the edge of the box. Despite the chances, though, it remained goalless at the break in Innsbruck.

Parity only lasted a matter of minutes after the restart when Neuhaus took advantage of a loose ball in the box after Kimmich’s touch saw the ball bounce off a defender. It appeared to spark the Danes – and Poulsen in particular – into life as the RB Leipzig striker twice created moments of danger in the Germany box, but neither time managed to test Manuel Neuer on his 99th international appearance. It was third time lucky with 20 minutes remaining, though, as he ran onto Christian Eriksen’s through ball from deep and fired clinically past Neuer to equalise. Poulsen’s former roommate at Leipzig, Kimmich, then came close to restoring the lead for Germany but his touch at the near post only took the ball onto the frame of the Danish goal.

Match stats

• Neuhaus scored his second goal on his sixth appearance for Germany’s senior team.
• Poulsen’s goal was his first past Neuer. He’d previously scored against Bayern in 2016/17, but Tom Starke was in net that day.
• Freiburg left-back Christian Günter earned his second cap for Germany. His first came against Poland in a 0-0 draw in May 2014.
• Neuer made his 99th appearance for the national team.
• Germany’s final friendly before the Euros is against Latvia on Monday 7 June. They will play all three of their group matches at the tournament at the Allianz Arena against France (15 June), Portugal (19 June), and Hungary (23 June).

Line-ups

Germany: Neuer (c) - Süle, Hummels, Ginter - Klostermann (Koch 60’), Kimmich, Neuhaus, Gosens (Günter 79’) - Gnabry (Volland 79’), Müller, Sane (Hofmann 86’)
Unused subs: Leno, Trapp, Halstenberg, Hofmann, Musiala
Out: Goretzka (thigh), Güngodan, Havertz, Rüdiger, Werner (all yet to join squad)
Coach: Joachim Löw

Denmark: Schmeichel - Wass (Christiansen 85’), Kjaer (c) (Zanka 80’), Vestergaard, Maehle - Hojbjerg (Stryger Larsen 68’), Delaney - Poulsen (Damsgaard 80’), Eriksen, Olsen (Dolberg 46’) - Braithwaite (Boilesen 80’)
Unused subs: Lössl, Rönnow, Skov, Wind, Cornelius
Out: -
Coach: Kasper Hjulmand

As it happened

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