{"id":489313,"date":"2025-10-10T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:22:10","slug":"germany-4-0-luxembourg-10-oct-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489313\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany 4-0 Luxembourg (10 Oct, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain Joshua Kimmich<\/a> scored twice in a comfortable 4-0 win over 10-man Luxembourg as Germany<\/a> moved top of their World Cup qualifying group after a stuttering start to their campaign.<\/p>\n

Defeat to Slovakia<\/a> last month had put some pressure on head coach Julian Nagelsmann, who had won just 13 of his previous 25 matches in charge.<\/p>\n

However, they never looked like coming close to an upset against a team ranked 96th in the world — whom they had not played in a competitive match since 1991 — who played 70 minutes at a numerical disadvantage after Dirk Carlson was dismissed for handball.<\/p>\n

The defender stuck out an arm to prevent Serge Gnabry<\/a> flicking the ball past him and, already leading from left-back David Raum<\/a>‘s 12th-minute free-kick which he bent around the wall and inside the near post, Kimmich converted the penalty.<\/p>\n

From there the hosts, who had kicked off third in Group A, controlled the game and cruised to victory.<\/p>\n

Newcastle striker Nick Woltemade<\/a> curled a left-footed drive wide of the post, Raum volleyed into the side-netting, Jonathan Tah<\/a> saw his close-range header blocked and Kimmich was denied by goalkeeper Anthony Moris<\/a> before half-time.<\/p>\n

\"\"Germany got their qualifying campaign back on the right track on Friday.<\/p>\n

DANIEL ROLAND\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

But it took just three minutes of the second half for Germany to extend their lead when Gnabry benefited from a fortuitous rebound off Eric Veiga, trying to cut out Karim Adeyemi<\/a>‘s through-ball, and fired home an angled shot.<\/p>\n

When Luxembourg made a mess of trying to clear a 50th-minute corner Kimmich had no difficulty firing home from three yards.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> playmaker Florian Wirtz<\/a> hit the outside of a post with a free-kick and also poked wide Ridle Baku<\/a>‘s clever flick, two of 29 shots the hosts had in a one-sided affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Joshua Kimmich scored twice in a comfortable 4-0 win over 10-man Luxembourg as Germany moved top of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-489313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351974224235275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}