Big blow for Germany ahead of the World Cup

in #sprtshub6 years ago

Germany have received a major blow with just ten days remaining for the World Cup as playmaker Mesut Özil has suffered a knee injury. The midfielder faces a stern test to prove himself fit to coach Joachim Löw with just ten days remaining for the World Cup.

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Mesut Özil is one of the most important players in the Germany squad and clearly one of the first names on the team sheet. The Arsenal playmaker has won the German Player of The Year Award five times in the last seven years, which does say a lot about how much the team needs him. He faces a lot of criticism for his performances while playing for Arsenal, but for Germany, Özil is an absolute beast. He has had 63 goal contributions in mere 90 games for the Germans. His recent contribution came against Austria last week, where he scored Germany's only goal in a 2-1 loss.

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But he hasn't trained since that game after suffering a knee injury. Özil has reportedly missed training with the first team for the last five days. To be fair, he Özil has been carrying the injury since the Arsenal games. He played the Europa League Semi-final against Atletico Madrid while being injured and missed the last four games of the season for the Gunners. So both Germany and Arsenal have been very cautious with him considering his importance to the National team in the World Cup.

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As for replacements, there aren't a lot of names in world football who you can call as a replacement for Mesut Özil, let alone in Germany. What Löw could do though, is maybe play Draxler or Müller centrally and bring in Leroy Sane in the team to play wide. Or maybe he could bring in Mario Götze. But Germany will certainly hope that all of this is not needed and Mesut Özil does come out fit before the World Cup begins.

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