Germany welcome Ukraine in this tight Nations League group, with both teams on six points as Germany have won just once and drawn three, but that victory came against Ukraine last month, a 2-1 win. The Germans come into the game on the back of a 1-0 success over the Czech Republic in midweek, thanks to a goal from Gian-Luca Waldschmidt.
Meanwhile Ukraine have won two and lost two of their Nations League games, beating Spain and Switzerland, to put them level with Germany and just one point behind Spain at the top of the group. The visitors also played a friendly in midweek, but they suffered a 2-0 defeat against Poland.
GERMANY (3-4-2-1): Manuel Neuer; Niklas Sule, Antonio Rudiger, Robin Koch; Matthias Ginter, Ilkay Gundogan, Leon Goretzka Philipp Max; Leroy Sane, Serge Gnabry; Timo Werner.
GERMANY SUBS: Nadiem Armiri, Jonathan Tah, Benjamin Henrichs, Kevin Trapp, Julian Brandt, Florian Neuhaus, Gian-Luca Waldschmidt, Niklas Stark, Bernd Leno, Felix Uduokhai, Mahmoud Dahoud.
UKRAINE (4-3-3): Andriy Pyatovl; Yukhym Konoplya, Mykola Matvyenko, Illia Zabarnyi, Eduard Sobol; Taras Stepanenko, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Oleksandr Zinchenko; Oleksandr Zubkov, Roman Yaremchuk, Marlos Bonfim.
UKRAINE SUBS: Valerii Bondar, Yevhen Cheberko, Andriy Lunin, Yuri Pankiv, Bogdan Mykaylichenko, Evgeniy Makarenko, Ihor Kharatin, Moraes, Sergey Krivtsov.
Only three players remain in the Germany starting line-up from the side that beat Czech Republic in midweek, with Koch, Max and Gundogan all featuring today. Whilst the likes of Neuer, Sane, Gnabry and Werner all return for the hosts.
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Ukraine make six changes to their starting line-up, with Lunin replaced in goal by Pyatovl and Kryvtsov, Mykaylichenko, Kovalenko, Makarenko and Yarmolenko all dropping out. They have been replaced by Zabarnyi, Sobol, Stepanenko, Malinovskyi and Bonfim.
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