This is likely also because his role at Leverkusen has changed in the meantime. Under Kasper Hjulmand, Andrich mainly plays as a centre-back in a back three at Leverkusen \u2013 and Nagelsmann certainly isn\u2019t short of centre-backs ahead of the World Cup, at least for the time being. Jonathan Tah, Nico Schlotterbeck, Antonio R\u00fcdiger and Waldemar Anton have all secured their places in the World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
In central midfield, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Leon Goretzka, Pascal Gro\u00df and the currently injured Felix Nmecha are ahead of him. Should Nmecha miss out, Angelo Stiller or Anton Stach would likely be called upon before Andrich. Nevertheless, the Leverkusen captain remains a key figure for Bayer 04 this term, chipping in with vital goals.<\/p>\n
In the first leg of the Champions League last 16 against Arsenal, the Leverkusen captain rose to head the decisive 1-0 winner, and on Matchday 29 he struck from distance to down Borussia Dortmund. After that goal, Andrich revealed he had spoken with the national coach at the start of the year; Nagelsmann had offered encouragement and left the door to Qatar ajar. \u201cMy chance is still there,\u201d Andrich said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about playing time and performance. I can\u2019t fault myself in that regard. I\u2019m on the pitch in every game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is likely also because his role at Leverkusen has changed in the meantime. Under Kasper Hjulmand, Andrich…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1147,6741,144,6740,5,1159,6739,284],"class_list":["post-6948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-bayer-leverkusen","tag-bayer-leverkusen-vs-bayern-munich","tag-bayern-munich","tag-dfb-pokal","tag-germany","tag-j-nagelsmann","tag-r-andrich","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}