With two victories she Men’s national team under 19 years old. A place in the semi-finals of the European Championship in Wales is already secured, but the biggest challenge still faces DFB coach Christian Werns’ team: the DFB team will play today in the final match of the preliminary round against Spain (from 15:00 CET, live). DFB.TV, RTL+ And YouTube) in Denbighshire for winning Group A.
Starting eleven: Kamga – Wallentowitz, Stapelmann, Erlein, Kossherski – Engelns, Mamuza Lum (K), Poller – Licina – Fields, Etzibasi.
“Spain have qualified. They are very compact defensively and don’t make many mistakes,” says Werns: “There were some minor injuries after the second group game against Wales, but fortunately we have no injuries and can take full advantage of the game against Spain. Only Mirza Katovic will have to sit out due to a yellow card suspension. Since we are already through to the semi-finals, we will be rotating the squad to give all the players tournament practice and know where they are all at in terms of performance.” We are not conceding anything in the classic match against Spain. We really want to win and win the group. It will be important that we force the Spanish to duel and start as a group to win the ball early, otherwise Spain will find gaps and overcome them because all the players have excellent technique, are flexible and make few mistakes.
The DFB players will play at Central Park in Denbighshire wearing their white home kit. The goalkeeper’s shirt is green. The match will be judged by Swedish referee Joakim Östling. The refereeing panel is completed by assistants Simon Christenson (Sweden) and Adam Jeffrey (Northern Ireland), as well as fourth official Marius Hansen Grotta (Norway).