Das Reboot and the Road to UEFA Nations League & EC2020

Marc-Andre ter Stegen is determined to be Germany's number one, telling Sport Bild: "I want to push on until Jogi Löw decides I will be the number one goalkeeper. I was convinced that I had a very good season. So the moment when Löw announced his decision was frustrating." #DFB

— Ronan Murphy (@swearimnotpaul) January 23, 2019

 

International Fixtures 2019


• 20th March: Germany vs. Serbia (Wolfsburg) Friendly

• 24th March: Netherlands vs Germany (Amsterdam) Euro Qualifier

• 8th June: Belarus vs. Germany, Euro Qualifier

• 11th June: Germany vs. Estonia (Mainz), Euro Qualifier

• 6th September: Germany vs. Netherlands (Hamburg), Euro Qualifier

• 9th September: Northern Ireland vs. Germany, Euro Qualifier

• 9th or 10th October: Opposition tbc, friendly

• 13th October: Estonia vs. Germany, Euro Qualifier

• 16th November: Germany vs. Belarus (Mönchengladbach), Euro Qualifier

• 19th November: Germany vs. Northern Ireland (Frankfurt), Euro Qualifier

All fixtures will begin at 20:45 CET.

Oliver Bierhoff, DFB Chief of the national team and academy, said: “We want to do everything we can to get back to the top of the rankings. The international fixtures are great because they allow us to travel to various different regions and see all our fans, as well as playing in both large, expansive stadiums, and smaller arenas such as Mainz.

the current talk is that Oct 9-10 missing game could be vs Brazil or Argentina.

also this whole year barely any chances to experiment as only 2 games from 10 are friendlies. Does Low even have a set XI????

 

Low promised last year that Halstenberg will get a recall in 2019. And Halstenberg wants a recall too.
https://fussball.news/artikel/halstenberg-hat-nationalmannschafts-comeback-weiter-im-blick/

currently LB options are Schulz, Halstenberg, Max, Hector, Plattenhardt.Not going to mention U21 players.

Hector needs to comeback in 1BL and perform 1st, Plattenhardt never really convinced for the NT and even his place at Hertha is in threat of being taken by one of the U21 options Mittelstadt.

 

yeah Klostermann is someone Low has brought up before but for post U21. There is also 00-Beyer from Gladbach playing CB/RB (although a cb he's played rb because he did well in friendlies during Summer and there was a need for that position) for them, had some fitness issues but is still very young. One for the future.

 

Rudy and Plattenhardt have had the biggest crashes careers post WC. Neither should be called up anymore and neither were NT material to begin with.

 

I think you meant Air Mustafi for RB and Lord Howedes for LB. lol at Low playing 4 cbs at the WC in 2014, we even beat everyone with Howedes as LB. Although Mustafi's injury was a blessing as he almost costs us the Algeria game, only then did Lahm start playing RB again.

Thats the double edge sword with Kimmich, very good in attack but attacks way too much and leaves space, needs to restrain himself. Or needs cover from midfield, which he did not have in 2018 WC. Honestly I'm not impressed with Kimmich as DM. He looks better as an RB.

Low promised in end of 2018 that Halstenberg will get a recall in 2019, so that one is settled. As for Klostermann that's a player he's mentioned by name as a senior NT call up prospect although like other youngsters seems like we might have to wait after the Summer U21 Euros. Which would mean him and any U21 player will miss 3 Euro qualifiers out of 8 games.

da Costa is also getting hard to ignore and he's stated numerous times he wants to get a call up but has heard nothing. I think further Frankfurt goes into EL the more it'll improve his chances.

 

Weigl is someone I would like to see how he does with NT in a recall. Playing cb will help improve his defense and he's gained 4kg in muscle mass too.

as for LB, we are stacked in prospective players there between Mittelstadt, Henrichs (can play both sides, needs to improve his club situation though), GL Itter, Vagnoman (can play both sides) Katterbach, Netz etc. There are plenty of other players that are emerging LB besides these guys too.

RB dev seems more of a question mark post Klostermann.

 

shame we can't add Klunter to the RB list as options since he's not a starter although when given the chance to play full game he shut down 3rd place Gladbach. Other RBs are either not worth mentioning or still emerging ones.

 

Kimmich on the World Cup: "Many factors contributed to that failure. We wanted to dominate our opponents and we lost our balance. We didn't deserve to qualify. We have to be more flexible and modern in our game to be back at the top level" pic.twitter.com/AYmDihV69C

— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) February 20, 2019