Team at national level - Nagelsmann leads his European Championship team to face Greece.
Germany's national football team faces Greece in a trial match for the European Championships, with coach Julian Nagelsmann's wish list coming to fruition. Champions League winners Toni Kroos and Antonio Rüdiger join the starting line-up in Mönchengladbach, replacing Pascal Gross and Waldemar Anton who also start on the bench. These changes come after Germany's 0:0 draw against Ukraine.
As the team looks towards the opening match of the home European Championship in Munich against Scotland in a week, Nagelsmann has also made preparations. One player noticeably absent from the squad is Alexander Nübel. Nagelsmann is likely to exclude him from the final tournament list. The DFB must submit their final list of 23 field players and 3 goalkeepers to UEFA by midnight. Previously, Nagelsmann had planned to bring 22 field players and 4 goalkeepers, but has now settled on 23 field players and only 3 goalies.
The German starting lineup for the match against Greece is: Neuer, Kimmich, Rüdiger, Tah, Mittelstädt, Andrich, Kroos, Musiala, Gündogan, Wirtz, Havertz.
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- Despite his strong performance in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach, Alexander Nübel is not included in Nagelsmann's preferred list for the European Championships.
- Toni Kroos and Antonio Rüdiger, both key players in Bayern Munich and Germany's national team, will feature in the trial match against Greece.
- The absence of Ilkay Gündogan from the training camp raised some concerns, but he was eventually added to the national team for the Greece game.
- Julian Nagelsmann, the national coach, has expressed his desire to see his team showcase a dominant performance against Scotland at the European Championship in Bavaria.
- The German national soccer team is currently in the preparation stage for the opening match against Scotland, and Nagelsmann is keen on utilizing the trial matches to fine-tune his strategies.
- In the absence of Pascal Gross and Waldemar Anton, Rüdiger and Toni Kroos were selected to represent Germany in the trial match against Greece in Mönchengladbach.
- The German defense will be strengthened by the presence of Antonio Rüdiger, who has proven his prowess in the Champions League and with the German national team.
- With Alexander Nübel not making the cut, the goalkeeping duties for the national team are likely to be handled by Manuel Neuer and two other keepers in the upcoming European Championship.
- Nagelsmann's exclusion of Nübel from the European Championship squad has sparked speculation and debate among German soccer fans, with some viewing it as wishful thinking and others as a strategic decision for the team's performance.
