Germany’s Loew to rest Mueller, Hummels against Austria

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File: Germany’s Thomas Muller, Niklas Sule, Antonio Rudiger, Joshua Kimmich and Mats Hummels during training REUTERS

LONDON: Germany’s Thomas Mueller and Mats Hummels will not travel with the world champions to Austria for their World Cup warm-up match on Saturday and get an extra day of rest, coach Joachim Loew said on Friday.

The Germans are facing Austria in Klagenfurt in their penultimate test ahead of this month’s World Cup. They also host Saudi Arabia on June 8 before leaving for Russia.

Mueller and Hummels will remain at their northern Italy training camp along with Bayern Munich team mate Jerome Boateng, working back towards full fitness following a muscle injury late in the season.

“Mueller had many games this season, Hummels had many games this season. We know what they can do so it is good for them to clear their head a bit this weekend,” Loew told a news conference.

Midfielder Toni Kroos will arrive in Italy on Saturday after a brief break following his Champions League victory with Real Madrid.

Loew said that fellow 2014 World Cup winners Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira, who suffered late-season injuries, would be on the pitch on Saturday to get much needed match practice.

Surprise addition Nils Petersen will also get playing time against Austria with Loew praising the Freiburg forward, who is battling for a spot in the squad along with fellow forwards Mario Gomez and Timo Werner.

“The impression I have of him has only been getting better,” Loew said of the versatile forward. “He is working really hard.”

Loew has taken 27 players into his preliminary squad and will cut four of them, including one goalkeeper, on Monday for his final 23.

The Germans are in World Cup Group F with Sweden, South Korea and Mexico. The tournament starts on June 14.

“Not everything is working perfectly yet,” Loew said. “But at this stage that is normal. Everything has gone according to plan. We have no injuries after about 10 days and that is a good feeling to have at this point.”

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NBA trade rumors: Celtics interested in Mo Bamba, could move up in draft, SN sources say

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Sources told Sporting News that the Celtics have expressed interest in Texas big man Mo Bamba, including interviewing him at the Chicago pre-draft combine two weeks ago.

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Nigeria vs Congo DR: TV channel, live stream, squad news & preview

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Gernot Rohr will begin finalising his World Cup strategies with an encounter against Florent Ibenge’s men in Port Harcourt

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Neymar: I’m not at 100 per cent yet

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With just three weeks until Brazil’s World Cup opener, the PSG star has admitted he is not yet back to full fitness

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Mexico vs. Wales: TV channel, live stream, team news & match preview

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El Tri begin to put the final touches on their World Cup preparations but may be shorthanded at the Rose Bowl because of injuries

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England defender Tarkowski off World Cup standby list with hernia injury

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The defenders’s hopes of playing in Russia are over following the news that he requires an operation

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England v Pakistan: second Test, day one – live!

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Strong morning for England, and despite suggestions that they should have more wickets by this point, I’d wager they would have whipped your arm off like a hungry shark if you’d offered them this at the start of play. Of the three bowlers only Curran has looked a bit innocuous, and we’ll let him off that for now as he’s not old enough to rent a car.

26th over: Pakistan 68-4 (Usman 3, Sarfraz 6) Sarfraz spends a decent amount of time complaining about movement behind the bowler’s arm, which brings up two thoughts: 1) is it really that distracting if someone shifts a little bit near the sight screen and 2) the players’ balconies are right above said sight screen – isn’t that going to cause a few problems? Anyway, Sarfraz settles himself enough to drive Broad through the covers for four, despite a despairing dive from Curran, then flick another round the corner. And that’s lunch.

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‘When Real Madrid call, you have to listen’ says Mauricio Pochettino

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Mauricio Pochettino has said that “when Real Madrid call you, you have to listen” after the Champions League winners identified him as the manager they want to replace Zinedine Zidane.

Pochettino signed a new five-year Tottenham contract just over a week ago but was quoted by the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial: “When Real Madrid call you, you have to listen to them. Although in this case it doesn’t depend on me. I have just signed a long contract with Tottenham and I am very happy here.

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French Open 2018 day six: Zverev and Djokovic in action, Dimitrov out – live!

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Somehow Dzumhur has got to pick himself up after that disappointment, as he’s still but a tiebreak away from victory.

Djokovic has now won four games on the spin, taking a 2-0 lead in the second set against Bautitsta Agut. Meanwhile Dzumhur’s attempt to serve for the match against Zverev didn’t go well – he’s just been broken to love!

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Viv Anderson picks his all-time England XI

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The former full-back selects a well-balanced 4-3-3 with a mouth-watering attack consisting of Charlton, Shearer and Barnes. Now you can do the same with our interactive tool

This is the most difficult thing, to choose a team of players, transcending different eras, some of whom I’ve played with and others I’ve seen only briefly. But there are also some very easy decisions and the goalkeeper is one of them.

Peter Shilton was a fantastic keeper who was nearly 41 when he played the last of his 125 games for his country, but there’s one thing missing from his CV: he never won the big one. So Gordon Banks is in for what he achieved in 1966, and that fantastic save from Pelé in 1970.

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