Germany vs Costa Rica live today: Everything revolves around the filling jug question

Created: 12/01/2022, 15:25

By: Patrick Mayer

Goal scorer Germany: Niclas Füllkrug from Werder Bremen.

© IMAGO / Ulmer/Team photo

Germany is fighting Costa Rica this Thursday evening for a place in the round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup. Which line-up will Hansi Flick choose?

Can Niclas Füllkrug play from the start?

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• World Cup 2022: Costa Rica – Germany, Thursday, 8 p.m. (CET)

• Starting eleven for Niclas Füllkrug?

  Fans and World Cup pundits call for "gap" from the start.

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Update from December 1, 3:23 p.m .:

The countdown is on!

In around four and a half hours, Germany will be fighting Costa Rica for a place in the round of 16 at the World Cup.

Costa Rica - Germany -:- (-:-), Thursday, 20:00 (CET)

First report from November 30, 6:01 p.m.:

Munich/al-Chaur – Niclas “Lücke” Füllkrug needed a full 76 minutes for two goals in the DFB jersey.

This means that the Werder Bremen striker will promptly become a beacon of hope at the 2022 World Cup (schedule).

Does football Germany have a “real nine” with him again?

A center forward with rough edges?

A clipper on the front line?

The hymns of praise for the beefy attacker can be heard at least everywhere after the German national team's 1-1 (0-0) win against Spain.

Now the 29-year-old attacker is supposed to take on Costa Rica this Thursday (8 p.m. CET).

So that after a botched start something will still happen with the World Cup round of 16.

At least that's how many fans see it - according to social media - and also experts for the World Cup in Qatar (November 20th to December 18th).

Starting eleven for Niclas Füllkrug?

Fans and World Cup pundits call for "gap" from the start

A fan wrote on Twitter under the hashtag #full mug: "Long live the center forward with more than 85 kg and more than 185 cm.

The jug tore the damned net.

Please @DFB_Team stop with this wrong 9 tactic... We need REAL NINES.” Ex-soccer player Sami Khedira was asked in the ARD panel of experts what it takes to progress.

"Filling jug," replied the 2014 world champion dryly and directly at the same time.

In the same program, ex-national goalkeeper Almuth Schult promoted a starting eleven for the new German fan favorite.

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The experts from

agreed.

Lars Stind from Borussia Mönchengladbach explained: "When he came in, with his presence, he gives us a different touch in the game.

And how he asserts himself in this situation, how he takes the ball away from Jamal Musiala and hits the ball into the far corner with conviction.”

Costa Rica – Germany in the live ticker: Showdown for the World Cup round of 16 in Qatar

He also liked the "jubilee run", said Stindl, "how happy the team was for him".

Ex-national player Michael Ballack confirmed on

: "Of course there is this momentum that you need in a tournament like this.

That the team really believes in itself again.

That (

.) is a player who brings something different: The body language, the type of striker that we kind of long for.

That was a statement coming in like that.”

The body language, the type of striker that we kind of thirst for.

Michael Ballack on Niclas "Lücke" Füllkrug

Berti Vogts, who became European champion as a coach with Germany in 1996, even promoted a new centre-forward campaign in German football.

When asked about the filling mug, Vogts told the

: "That's a good German tradition.

Let’s think of Uwe Seeler, Gerd Müller, Horst Hrubesch, Rudi Völler, Jürgen Klinsmann and Oliver Bierhoff.”

Does national coach Hansi Flick hear them all when setting up the DFB team?

Germany needs a win against Costa Rica – and support from the Spaniards.

Follow the showdown for the World Cup round of 16 here in the live ticker.