Germany and Hungary’s only previous encounters in a major tournament came in the 1954 World Cup, with Hungary winning 8-3 in the group stage and Germany 3-2 in the final. In more recent times, the Germans have defeated Hungary in their two previous meetings under Low, both of them friendlies. Marco Rossi’s Hungary are a tricky team to beat though.
There’s just the one change to Germany from their win over Portugal. Muller is benched so Sane starts on the left. Neuer starts his 14th game at the Euros for Germany, matching Philipp Lahm’s record. Hungary are unchanged from their 1-1 draw with France.
SUBS: Kevin Varga, Denes Dibusz, Roland Varga, Adam Bogdan, Gergo Lovrencsics, David Siger, Szabolcs Schon, Filip Holender, Bendeguz Bolla, Akos Kecskes, Adam Lang, Nemanja Nikolic.
HUNGARY (3-5-2): Peter Gulacsi; Endre Botka, Willi Orban, Attila Szalai; Loic Nego, Laszlo Kleinheisler, Adam Nagy, Andras Schafer, Attila Fiola; Adam Szalai (c), Roland Sallai.
SUBS: Florian Neuhaus, Bernd Leno, Kevin Trapp, Emre Can, Robin Koch, Thomas Muller, Niklas Sule, Leon Goretzka, Jamal Musiala, Timo Werner, Marcel Halstenberg, Kevin Volland.
GERMANY (3-4-3): Manuel Neuer (c); Matthias Ginter, Mats Hummels, Antonio Rudiger; Joshua Kimmich, Ilkay Gundogan, Toni Kroos, Robin Gosens; Kai Havertz, Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane.
Hungary may be bottom of Group F as things stand but a well-earned draw with world champions France in their last match will give them belief that they can repeat their run to Euro 2016’s round of 16. Hungary haven’t won their last group game of a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup. They’ll need to do so now though to progress.
Germany’s rip-roaring 4-2 win over Portugal last time out has given them a very good chance of escaping Euro 2020’s group of death. Joachim Low’s men now host Hungary, knowing they’ve never crashed out in the group stage of consecutive major tournaments.
Hello! Welcome to our live text commentary of this UEFA Euro 2020 Group F match between Germany and Hungary at the Allianz Arena, Munich.
