Germany have announced that captain Joshua Kimmich will miss their World Cup qualifier against Luxembourg on Thursday due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n
Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s side are currently top of Group A, level with Slovakia on nine points after four games, while Northern Ireland are on six points in third.<\/p>\n
Luxembourg are yet to pick up any points in the group, scoring just once across their four matches and losing 4-0 to Germany in October.<\/p>\n
Kimmich scored twice in that match and is currently Germany\u2019s joint-top scorer in this qualifying campaign, alongside Serge Gnabry (both two).<\/p>\n
Germany released a statement that said: \u201cOur captain picked up a capsule injury in his right ankle during yesterday’s training session and will indeed travel with the team to Luxembourg tomorrow, but he won’t be playing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmich has played every minute in Germany\u2019s four qualifying matches so far, starting in the back four rather than in midfield.<\/p>\n
RB Leipzig\u2019s Ridle Baku is Kimmich\u2019s most likely replacement, while Borussia Dortmund\u2019s Waldemar Anton is also an option for Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n
Bayern Munich will hope Kimmich’s injury is not serious, as the Bundesliga leaders prepare for a busy few weeks that include a Champions League trip to Arsenal, on November 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany have announced that captain Joshua Kimmich will miss their World Cup qualifier against Luxembourg on Thursday due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-567951","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\/115543301389866575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567951","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=567951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}