Both sides were in friendly action earlier in the week, although neither would likely reflect fondly on those outings. Ukraine were thrashed 7-1 by world champions France, while Germany lost the lead three times to draw at home to Turkey.
Remarkably, Germany still have not won a Nations League match since the tournament's inception in 2018. They are a point behind Ukraine in Group A4, having drawn with Spain and Switzerland while their opponents beat the Swiss.
Ukraine (4-2-3-1): Georgi Bushchan; Oleksandr Karavaev, Illia Zabarnyi, Vitalii Mykolenko, Eduard Sobol; Ruslan Malinovskiy, Serhiy Sydorchuk; Viktor Kovalenko, Andriy Yarmolenko, Roman Yaremchuk; Viktor Tsygankov.
Subs: Mykyta Shevchenko, Dmytro Riznyk, Igor Plastun, Yevhen Cheberko, Mykola Shaparenko, Marlos Bonfim, Yukhym Konoplia, Ihor Kharatin, Volodymyr Shepelev, Bogdan Mykhaylichenko, Evgeniy Makarenko, Oleksandr Zubkov.
Germany (3-4-3): Manuel Neuer; Matthias Ginter, Niklas Sule, Antonio Rudiger; Lukas Klostermann, Joshua Kimmich, Toni Kroos, Marcel Halstenberg; Leon Goretzka, Serge Gnabry, Julian Draxler.
Subs: Bernd Leno, Kevin Trapp, Robin Koch, Jonathan Tah, Timo Werner, Julian Brandt, Gian-Luca Waldschmidt, Florian Neuhaus, Jonas Hofmann, Robin Gosens, Kai Havertz, Emre Can.
Germany make nine changes as all eight of the players whose absence for the Turkey match was pre-agreed return to the XI. Ginter, an unused substitute in that friendly, also comes in, with only Rudiger and Draxler keeping their places. Ukraine change six players.
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This is the first meeting between the sides since a group-stage clash at Euro 2016. Germany were 2-0 winners on that occasion, with Neuer, Kroos and Draxler - starters today - all involved.
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