FIH Hockey Men's World Cup 2026, Semis: Germany vs Argentina | #HWC2026

And now Germany and Argentina meet to decide Who will face them here on Sunday afternoon? It is Germany in the all-white strip that get us underway. They're attacking the goal away to our left-hand side in this first half. Argentina in their chain strip of all-black going the other way and joining myself Charlie Broom in the commentary box For this one, it's Toby Valter. Toby, very good evening to you. Charlie Broome in the Comchi box. Well, how much more drama has this penultimate day of men's action got in store for us? Your thoughts on this one? Another fantastic ball. Shot comes in, and from a very, very difficult angle, Stritov takes on the shot. That's a great receive from Shudov. Seemed like not wanting to take the risk on outplaying the opponent on the field, so they both choose the high ball to get higher up the field. Germany pre-hits by Warbeck and at the far post, Ruhr is there but he can't find the touch. An overhead tennis smash from Justus Warbeck. That was probably the biggest chance that Warbeck has scored like this already in the last game against Australia. You never see that defensive touch of the ground, right? Ludwig, Ludwig sliding it in, couple of deflections, Argentina having where is Sean Rappaport trying to get him to use an umpire referral to check it but he's having none of it. What a ball from Ludwig in front of the goal and Weigand in a perfect position with the beautiful deflection on the left side of his body to make it 1-0 no chance for Santiago in goal. Beautiful goal from Weygand. So. So here's Weygand with his fourth goal of the tournament. Here is a chance for Argentina. Capurro wins the penalty corner. It's the first penalty corner of the match. And Bautista Capurro, who has been at the centre of all things good for Argentina, is at the centre of this. They want to win penalty corners and that's a beautiful ball win from Capurro Kuro who then... Here it goes, Donatore! That's him! That's Argentina! He's got the score, but he's gone through the post player. He's absolutely ripped this as Thomas Dominic. ...moving it on to Montmangela. Here is Ludwig, Ludwig, lovely 3D skills from Lois Ludwig. Ludwig across the face of goal! We're going to have a little check here. It's Kaufmann, is it, on the far post? But we will just check. This is my referral. On field I've given a goal. I want you to check the ball coming across for potential danger, please. Okay, so confirming you have awarded a goal. Yes. It's a self-referral and I'm looking for potential danger in the circle. Correct, thank you. Okay. He's got himself in front of the defender. Kaufmann's goal. If it's a goal, if it's a goal. Flat back stick. Sean, there is no clear reason to change your decision. You can award a goal. Thank you. The Germans are in front. And the goal has been scored by, well, we think it is Kaufmann on the far post. He touched it before it goes over the line. It's beautifully done for Ludwig. Great positioning of Weigand and then Kaufmann to push it finally over the line. So it is Germany 2. The final seconds, Granbush would throw this long. It's collected, brilliant by Andriotti. But this has to go and that is that. Germany are in to the World Cup final. They will get a chance to defend their title they won in India back in 2023. Well, huge disappointment obviously for Argentina, but really on the balance of play, they didn't really create enough. Dannenberg didn't make a save, and he only picked the ball out of his net for the penalty corner. Yeah, and I think we always talk about small margins in big games like this. Dannenberg didn't have to make a save. Santiago had a couple of shots he had to take care of. Germany, most of the time, in ball possession on the front foot, and at the end of the day, definitely deserved that win today.