Comments and predictions for Slovakia vs Germany: The tanks are too strong

Latest Slovakia vs Germany team information

Slovakia are without Lukas Haraslin with a groin injury, while Denis Vavro (Wolfsburg) has had surgery on his adductor muscle and is also absent. Samuel Kozlovsky and Dominik Javorcek are injured; Ivan Schranz and Laszlo Benes have stomach pains and need further tests.

After experimenting with a back three in the defeat to Israel, coach Calzona is likely to return to his familiar 4-3-3. 38-year-old veteran Peter Pekarik will hope to make his 136th appearance at right-back. Stanislav Lobotka (Napoli), Matus Bero (VfL Bochum) and Robert Bozenik (Stoke City) could all start.

On the German side, the absentee list is very long: Jamal Musiala, Kai Havertz, Marc-André ter Stegen, Nico Schlotterbeck, Niklas Süle, Benjamin Henrichs, Tim Kleindienst and Tom Bischof are all injured. The trio of Nathaniel Brown, Max Rosenfelder and Nicolas Kuhn also missed the opportunity to debut for the same reason.

Nnamdi Collins (Eintracht Frankfurt) and Paul Nebel (Mainz 05) have been called up for the first time and are ready to make their debuts. Antonio Rüdiger returns alongside Angelo Stiller, Jamie Leweling and Nadiem Amiri, and the Real Madrid centre-back is likely to start alongside Jonathan Tah.

Liverpool's expensive new signing Florian Wirtz is looking for his first goal for his new club, but could be deployed as number 10. Up front, Nick Woltemade (Newcastle) - who scored 6 goals in 5 matches at the U21 European Championship this summer - has the chance to start his third match for Germany, ahead of Niclas Füllkrug.

Latest expected lineup Slovakia vs Germany

Slovakia:

Dubravka; Pekarik, Skriniar, Gyomber, Hancko; Duda, Lobotka, Bero; Schranz, Bozenik, Duris

Virtue:

Baumann; Kimmich, Tah, Rudiger, Raum; Goretzka, Stiller; Adeyemi, Wirtz, Gnabry; Woltemade

Latest football commentary Slovakia vs Germany

Germany are set to play their first international since their UEFA Nations League exit on home soil in June, losing 2-1 to Portugal in the semi-finals and then losing 2-0 to France in the third-place play-off.

Currently ranked 9th in FIFA,The Mannschafthave won just 12 of their 23 games (D6 L5) in all competitions – including friendlies – since Julian Nagelsmann took over in September 2023. Improving their defence is certainly a big priority, with Germany keeping just five clean sheets in their last 16 games and conceding two or more goals in all four of their 2025 games.

However, Germany are still considered strong candidates to qualify for the World Cup from Group A. Based on their Nations League performance, they have secured a play-off spot, but the clear goal is to win first place to get a direct ticket to the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Before the trip to Slovakia, Germany were on a seven-game winning streak in World Cup qualifying, and had won three of their last five meetings with the opposition. The last time they visited Bratislava (October 2006), Germany won 4-1 in Euro qualifying.

Slovakia, under coach Francesco Calzona, are struggling to regain form after a four-match winless streak in 2025, starting with a painful defeat in the Nations League play-off round.

Despite collecting 13 points in Group C3 of the 2024 Nations League, they missed out on promotion in March when they lost 0-1 to Slovenia over two matches, with the decisive goal coming in the 95th minute.

Since then, Slovakia has dropped to 52nd in FIFA rankings after two consecutive friendly defeats against Greece (1-4) and Israel (0-1).

Having only once qualified for the World Cup as an independent nation (South Africa 2010), Slovakia are aiming to qualify for next year's finals, as they finished second in Group A, ahead of Northern Ireland and Luxembourg.

Although they are considered underdogs against Germany, they still have reason to hope as they have won 2/5 recent confrontations: 2-0 at home (2005) and 3-1 in Germany (2016), although both were friendly matches.

Latest Slovakia vs Germany score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Slovakia vs Germanyas follows:

• Sportsmole:Slovakia 0-2 Germany

• WhoScore:Slovakia 1-3 Germany
• Our newspaper predicts:Slovakia 1-3 Germany

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