{"id":2608,"date":"2026-09-25T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:16:16","slug":"first-goal-of-klopp-era-arrives-amid-controversy-with-brobbey-down-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/first-goal-of-klopp-era-arrives-amid-controversy-with-brobbey-down-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"First goal of &#8216;Klopp era&#8217; arrives amid controversy with Brobbey down injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-34.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-34-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-34-766x430.png 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Felix Nmecha struck Germany&#8217;s first goal of the &#8216;Jurgen Klopp era&#8217; as the Netherlands furiously demanded play be stopped following an injury to Brian Brobbey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A non-contact muscle injury suffered by Brian Brobbey in the middle of the park sparked furious protests from the entire Netherlands side, with Virgil van Dijk leading the outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Felix Nmecha pounced on a loose ball inside the penalty area to fire Germany ahead on a night that marked the managerial debuts of both Xavi Hernandez and Jurgen Klopp at the helm of their respective national sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the contest, the Dutch had already seen an opener chalked off when referee Hernandez Hernandez, following a VAR review prompted by Del Cerro Grande, penalised an alleged foul on Ter Stegen before Van Dijk headed into the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Nmecha struck Germany&#8217;s first goal of the &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}