After the injuries to Felix Nmecha and Aleksandar Pavlovic, national‑team coach Julian Nagelsmann will also have to drop Jamie Leweling from the upcoming internationals. The DFB announced on Tuesday that the four‑time national player from VfB Stuttgart left the team’s accommodation in Herzogenaurach due to muscular problems, thereby removing him from the squad. For Nmecha and Pavlovic Nagelsmann has named Angelo Stiller and Chris Führich from VfB Stuttgart as their replacements. No replacement has been lined up for Leweling, so the squad shrinks from 26 to 25 players.
Germany will open its World‑Cup‑year campaign on 27 March in Basel against Switzerland, followed on 30 March by a match in Stuttgart against Ghana. In all 54 matches played against the Swiss, Germany has recorded 36 victories, nine defeats and nine draws. Ghana has faced the German side three times: a 6‑1 friendly win for Germany in 1993 in Bochum, a victory in the 2010 World Cup and a draw in 2014.