Overview

• Kickoff is at 20:45 local time in a sold-out Sinsheim, with live coverage on ARD.
• Strasser, appointed in August, opened qualifying with narrow defeats to Northern Ireland (1–3) and Slovakia (0–1 via a 90th-minute goal).
• Luxembourg’s rise is tied to revamped youth training and a core playing outside the country, including six in Germany plus Leandro Barreiro’s summer move to Benfica.
• Creative midfielder Danel Sinani has broken through at FC St. Pauli and Aiman Dardari is in FC Augsburg’s Bundesliga squad, reflecting the team’s growing depth.
• The federation excluded record scorer Gerson Rodrigues in August after his suspended sentence for multiple assaults, removing a prominent option up front as Germany looms.