Nagelsmann can only name 26 players, and a number of them have already played their way into the squad if not the starting XI – but there is still some wiggle room with two months to go before the tournament kicks off in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Germany – champions in 1954, ’75, ’90 and 2014 – have been drawn in Group E alongside Curaçao, Côte d'Ivoire and Ecuador, and it is reasonable to assume that the starting line-up when they kick off their campaign against the first of those in Houston, Texas, will look something like this first graphic:
