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Thomas Müller celebrates after his goal to 8-0 against Liechtenstein
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Sebastian Räppold / Matthias Koch / imago images / Matthias Koch
With his 109th appearance for the German Football Association (DFB), Thomas Müller overtook former national coach Jürgen Klinsmann in the German national game list.
Manuel Neuer caught up with Klinsmann on his 108th mission.
The two players from the German record champions Bayern Munich were in the starting line-up against Liechtenstein.
Müller is now the only sixth and is four games behind his former teammate Philipp Lahm.
Lothar Matthäus is still the undisputed leader in the list of record players with 150 games ahead of Miroslav Klose (137) and Lukas Podolski (130).
There is a change in the top 20 ranking of the best German goal scorers after the 9-0 victory of the DFB against Liechtenstein: Double goalscorer Müller caught up with former captain Michael Ballack with his 41 and 42 goals.
Müller has scored the most goals in the current squad.
Timo Werner (21 goals) follows before Serge Gnabry (20).
With 71 goals, Klose remains the record scorer ahead of Gerd Müller (68), Joachim Streich (55) and Podolski (49).
With the victory over Liechtenstein, the German national soccer team also won the sixth World Cup qualifying game under Hansi Flick - giving the new national coach the only start record.
The DFB-Elf defeated outsiders Liechtenstein on Thursday in Wolfsburg 9-0 (4-0).
Flick surpassed his predecessor Joachim Löw, who was said goodbye before the encounter.
In front of 25,984 spectators in the sold-out stadium, the following players met: Ilkay Gündoğan (11th, penalty kick), Daniel Kaufmann (20th, own goal), Leroy Sané (22nd / 49th, according to video evidence), Marco Reus (23rd), Thomas Müller (76./86.) And Ridle Baku (80./89.).
You can read more about the game here, the individual review can be found here.
The German team was the first team in the world to win the ticket to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as early as October.
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