Overview
- Manuel Neuer has completed full goalkeeper sessions with Germany’s other keepers and was diving again during training in Winston-Salem.
- He progressed from the keeper programme onto the main pitch and stood in goal during a team scrimmage, a key step toward match fitness.
- Nagelsmann has publicly outlined a plan to play Neuer in the opener against Curaçao but says the selection is conditional on no setbacks in the remaining sessions.
- Oliver Baumann started the recent friendlies versus Finland and the USA as a precaution while Neuer recovered, allowing the coaching staff to protect Neuer’s calf.
- Reports are developing and primarily come from Sportbild/BILD, and Neuer’s return would restore Germany’s long-time first-choice keeper to the starting lineup if his fitness holds.