France boss Didier Deschamps names an extremely strong France side, eight of which started the 2018 World Cup final. Kimpembe, Rabiot and the returnee Benzema are the three newcomers, while Giroud, who started that final, is on the bench. Germany put out their oldest starting 11 in a major tournament since Euro 2000 where, ominously, they finished bottom of their group. Neuer starts his 100th game for Germany, the first goalkeeper in the nation’s history to do so.
SUBS: Marcel Halstenberg, Lukas Klostermann, Christian Gunter, Niklas Sule, Timo Werner, Kevin Trapp, Bernd Leno, Florian Neuhaus, Leroy Sane, Robin Koch, Kevin Volland, Emre Can.
GERMANY (3-4-3): Manuel Neuer (c); Matthias Ginter, Mats Hummels, Antonio Rudiger; Joshua Kimmich, Toni Kroos, Ilkay Gundogan, Robin Gosens; Kai Havertz, Thomas Muller, Serge Gnabry.
SUBS: Kurt Zouma, Wissam Ben Yedder, Thomas Lemar, Steve Mandanda, Lucas Digne, Kingsley Coman, Jules Kounde, Clement Lenglet, Ousmane Dembele, Mike Maignan, Olivier Giroud, Corentin Tolisso.
FRANCE (4-3-1-2): Hugo Lloris (c); Benjamin Pavard, Raphael Varane, Presnel Kimpembe, Lucas Hernandez; Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kante, Adrien Rabiot; Antoine Griezmann; Kylian Mbappe, Karim Benzema.
Germany aren’t the team they were a few years ago, but they still have the potential and know-how to go deep into this tournament. No side has won more European Championships than the Germans. They’ll want to give Joachim Low a winning send-off but they’ll need to escape this year’s group of death first.
We’re here for a meeting of two European heavyweights in what must be the highest profile match of Euro 2020 so far. With Portugal getting off to a winning start against Hungary, 2018 World Cup winners France will be keen to do the same and begin exorcising the ghosts of their defeat in the Euro 2016 final.
Hello! Welcome to our live text commentary of this UEFA Euro 2020 Group F match between France and Germany at the Allianz Arena, Munich.
