Football: 'Germany's van Dijk' - Suele learning to lead wobbly defence

HAMBURG: Fresh from a stinging defeat by the Dutch, Joachim Loew's fragile young Germany team will look to their new defensive general Niklas Suele when they test their mettle in a must-win Euro 2020 qualifier at Northern Ireland on Monday .

"Niklas now has responsibility, we expect more from him. He has to organise and direct things at the back" said Loew at the time. Fellow centre-backs Matthias Ginter and Jonathan Tah, who scored an own goal, came in for stinging criticism in the press, with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper writing that Tah had"legs of jelly".

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