Germany overhaul on track, eye win over Estonia: Gnabry

Germany’s effort to rebuild a competitive squad after last year’s shock World Cup exit is on track and a third Euro 2020 qualifying win over Estonia on Tuesday will further boost their confidence, winger Serge Gnabry has said.

The Germans have won their two Euro qualifiers so far against the Dutch and Belarus on Saturday, with coach Joachim Loew having refreshed his team, dropping former stalwarts including Mats Hummels, Thomas Mueller and Jerome Boateng.

“We have a very youthful team, we understand each other very well because we have known each other since the youth teams and this development of the team is a lot of fun,” the 23-year-old Gnabry told a news conference on Monday.

The Germans are on six points in Group C, three behind leaders Northern Ireland who beat Estonia 2-1 on Saturday for their third win in three qualifiers.

“We feel young, we trust each other. We are better this year. We have two wins (from our qualifiers) and hopefully tomorrow we will win again,” Gnabry said.

“The development is very positive and the fact that we know each other well makes things a lot easier. Now we want to keep going down this path together.”

The Germans beat Belarus 2-0 in Borisov but they could have scored several more goals.

“We are obviously the favourites against Estonia. We will try to do our best to bag the three points again. We had many goal chances and should have scored more against Belarus,” he added.

Meanwhile, Gnabry said on Monday he would ‘love’ to see Germany teammate and Manchester City star Leroy Sane join him at Allianz Arena.

“I would love to have him at Bayern. I am having fun playing with him and he would be an improvement for our team,” Gnabry, 23, told reporters ahead of Germany’s Euro 2020 qualifier with Estonia on Tuesday.

Sane, also 23, has been heavily linked with a transfer to Bayern in recent weeks, having reportedly grown frustrated with a lack of game time under Pep Guardiola at City.

Agence France-Presse