The second international friendly of 2016 will give Germany players a further chance to push for a place in the squad for EURO 2016. On Tuesday (20:45 CEST), the World Champions will welcome Italy to Munich. DFB.de has all the facts and figures for this match.
Stat I: The meeting with Italy in Munich will be the 909th match in the history of Germany’s national team. Since its first match ever on 5th April 1908, there have been 527 wins, 183 draws and 198 defeats. The goal record from these 908 matches, which has seen 918 different players wear Germany’s colours, is 2039-1081.
Stat II: Joachim Löw will take charge of his 129th game on Tuesday in Munich since taking over as Germany coach in August 2006. In this time he has overseen 85 wins, 22 draws and 21 defeats. Löw has used 103 players in these 128 matches, including handing 78 players their debut for the national side. The 78th and latest debutant under Löw was Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonathan Tah in the 3-2 loss to England in berlin on Saturday.
Stat III: Germany and Italy have faced each other 33 times. So far there have been seven victories for Germany, ten draws and 15 wins for Italy. The last meeting took place on 15th November 2013. Mats Hummels had put Germany ahead early on in Milan before Ignazio Abate equalised just before the half-hour mark.
The road to the EUROs: The World Champions qualified for this summer’s tournament with seven victories, one draw and two defeats in Group D. Opponents Italy were unbeaten in Group H and comfortably qualified for the EUROs in France with seven wins and three draws.
Milestones: World Champion Mario Götze is on the verge of winning his 50th cap for Germany. The 23-year-old celebrated his debut on 17th November 2010 with a 0-0 against Sweden in Gothenburg. Thomas Müller, one of Götze’s teammates at Bayern München, is also in line to make his 70th appearance for the national team. Sebastian Rudy and Shkodran Mustafi are also both in with a chance of winning their tenth caps.
Record appearance holder: Lothar Matthäus continues to lead this statistic by some distance. The former World Player of the Year won exactly 150 caps for Germany between 1980 and 2000. Out of the currently active players, Lukas Podolski leads the way with 127 caps ahead of injured captain Bastian Schweinsteiger (114).
Record goal scorer: Miroslav Klose currently leads Germany’s all-time goal-scorer chart with 71 strikes ahead of the legend Gerd Müller (68). However, Müller achieved this in just 62 appearances, whilst Klose reached his total in 137. Out of the current squad, Lukas Podolski (48), Thomas Müller (30) and Mario Gomez (26) are the most potent in front of goal.
The second international friendly of 2016 will give Germany players a further chance to push for a place in the squad for EURO 2016. On Tuesday (20:45 CEST), the World Champions will welcome Italy to Munich. DFB.de has all the facts and figures for this match.
Stat I: The meeting with Italy in Munich will be the 909th match in the history of Germany’s national team. Since its first match ever on 5th April 1908, there have been 527 wins, 183 draws and 198 defeats. The goal record from these 908 matches, which has seen 918 different players wear Germany’s colours, is 2039-1081.
Stat II: Joachim Löw will take charge of his 129th game on Tuesday in Munich since taking over as Germany coach in August 2006. In this time he has overseen 85 wins, 22 draws and 21 defeats. Löw has used 103 players in these 128 matches, including handing 78 players their debut for the national side. The 78th and latest debutant under Löw was Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonathan Tah in the 3-2 loss to England in berlin on Saturday.
Stat III: Germany and Italy have faced each other 33 times. So far there have been seven victories for Germany, ten draws and 15 wins for Italy. The last meeting took place on 15th November 2013. Mats Hummels had put Germany ahead early on in Milan before Ignazio Abate equalised just before the half-hour mark.
The road to the EUROs: The World Champions qualified for this summer’s tournament with seven victories, one draw and two defeats in Group D. Opponents Italy were unbeaten in Group H and comfortably qualified for the EUROs in France with seven wins and three draws.
Milestones: World Champion Mario Götze is on the verge of winning his 50th cap for Germany. The 23-year-old celebrated his debut on 17th November 2010 with a 0-0 against Sweden in Gothenburg. Thomas Müller, one of Götze’s teammates at Bayern München, is also in line to make his 70th appearance for the national team. Sebastian Rudy and Shkodran Mustafi are also both in with a chance of winning their tenth caps.
Record appearance holder: Lothar Matthäus continues to lead this statistic by some distance. The former World Player of the Year won exactly 150 caps for Germany between 1980 and 2000. Out of the currently active players, Lukas Podolski leads the way with 127 caps ahead of injured captain Bastian Schweinsteiger (114).
Record goal scorer: Miroslav Klose currently leads Germany’s all-time goal-scorer chart with 71 strikes ahead of the legend Gerd Müller (68). However, Müller achieved this in just 62 appearances, whilst Klose reached his total in 137. Out of the current squad, Lukas Podolski (48), Thomas Müller (30) and Mario Gomez (26) are the most potent in front of goal.
Kits: The question of which kits will be worn has a classic answer: Die Mannschaft will wear their traditional white home strip whilst Italy will wear their usual blue.
The referee: Austrian Oliver Drachta will take charge of the match in Munich. He will be assisted by fellow countrymen Roland Brandner and Stefan Kühr. Manuel Schüttengruber will be the fourth official. 38-year-old Drachta, who works at a sports-medicine institute in Linz, has been a FIFA referee since 2010 but will not officiate at the EUROs this summer.
