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Luxembourg vs Germany Highlights

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00:00Hello and welcome.
00:12This is the sharp end of the European qualifiers for next year's FIFA Men's World Cup.
00:17And tonight we're all set in Luxembourg City for the meeting of two neighbours in Group
00:21A as Luxembourg welcomed Germany on match day five of six.
00:26So now is the stage where every point in every goal assumes added weight and significance
00:31in pursuit of automatic qualification which cannot be assured tonight.
00:36The Group A constellation has Germany and Slovakia level at the summit on nine points.
00:42Tonight in Kosice they go home to Northern Ireland before on Monday the group concludes in Leipzig
00:47with Germany keen to avenge September's loss in Bratislava with the return meeting with Slovakia.
00:53Now if Germany and Slovakia both win tonight and Monday's game is drawn then goal difference becomes a factor.
00:59In essence who's put the most goals past the bottom team Luxembourg might become decisive.
01:05Luxembourg start, the team who are so far pointless.
01:15It's 20 years since they last had a group in the World Cup without a single point taken.
01:21They've scored just one goal so far across their first four matches in this year's qualifying cycle.
01:26Here's Janss away by Baku for Germany.
01:31All of some dispossessed here by Goretzka.
01:34Goretzka, Florian Wietz!
01:38The first save of the night there for Maurice across to push the ball away from Wietz.
01:43Iman Dardari, good ball for Borrero here for Luxembourg.
01:50The pullback for Sinani!
01:53That's a great chance for the first goal for Luxembourg tonight.
01:58Danil Sinani here steals in.
02:02A miss just across the face of the goal.
02:04Zanay, Baku and here Gnabry blocked.
02:14He'll try again with the second shot and this one's wide.
02:20Gnabry here has two bites of this.
02:22The first one repelled by Olesen or maybe Valtemar in the way but his own player.
02:27And the second in the end was somewhere wide of Maurice's goal.
02:34The first shot here off Valtemar, a second past the post.
02:44It's Zanay for Valtemar!
02:49Clinical!
02:51And just like that, the goal to blow away the nerves of the German team tonight,
02:59to blow the anxiety away and to put them back on course.
03:05The pass to Zanay who got that ball under his spell magnificently.
03:09And then Valtemar steals in.
03:11The goal to break the hearts of Luxembourg and their resistance.
03:161-0 for Germany.
03:18Nick Valtemar.
03:19This is Danil Sinani all rather tight.
03:22And Dardari!
03:22And goodness me again!
03:25This young man goes very close for Luxembourg.
03:28A man with so little first-team club experience has shone for Luxembourg tonight.
03:36And this one another one that got away really for the home team.
03:38This is really close again to Barman's bottom corner.
03:44Now to Marvin Martins.
03:47Olivier Thiel and there Christopher Martins couldn't finish well.
03:51Another good chance comes and goes here for Luxembourg tonight.
03:55Here is Zanay.
04:02Zanay, no Baku.
04:06Valtemar does it again.
04:12Valtemar!
04:12His first international brace at senior level.
04:19Again Zanay on his recall has a big hand in this.
04:23He's done well tonight Leroy Zanay.
04:26And here Baku the assist provider for Nick Valtemar.
04:33You shouldn't say a man who's born into 1980s growing into the role.
04:38But he is now as Germany's leading attacker at the moment in that centre-forward position.
04:44Valtemar's goal for 2-0 Germany.
04:47That's now 3-2 caps for the big man from Newcastle.
04:52Viertz on to Mecha.
04:54And Mecha hits one.
04:56And there a tremendous reaction save to push it away from the goalkeeper Moise.
05:02And Mecha can unload a real rocket at times.
05:06And this one, one of those.
05:08Good save by Moise.
05:10This one clattered by Mecha.
05:13The goalkeeper says no.
05:18Nick Valtemar, the big man again, comes up big for Germany.
05:23As in the last game in Belfast.
05:25He is decisive once again for Julian Nagelsmann here for Germany.
05:29Luxembourg gave this one absolutely everything.
05:32They played really well tonight, but Valtemar's first ever senior international double is decisive.
05:40It means the Germans will go into the last matchday as the leaders of Group A to face Slovakia on Monday in Leipzig.
05:48And Valtemar again comes up clutch for Nagelsmann and for Germany.
05:55For Strasser and Luxembourg, they gave this one a lock, but a lock was not enough.
06:00Because the Germans in the second half found a way.
06:04And found Nick Valtemar to be the difference maker.
06:07The full-time score here, it ends Luxembourg nil, Germany 2.
06:11Here we go.
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