Germany vs Ukraine Football Euro 2016

Germany, reigning world champions, will seek on Sunday in his debut at Euro victory against Ukraine to confirm its status as hot favorites for the title, after twenty years without win the continental trophy.

On paper, Joachim Löw should not fail to Ukraine at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy Lille in northwestern France; a first step to impose their authority on Group C affordable, completing Northern Ireland and Poland.

Germany, runners-up in Europe, is a solid block and tanning major events that ranked as first in its group for the tournament (seven wins, one draw and one defeat), ahead of Poland and Ireland.

But the Germans reach the European Championship with two of their headdresses protagonists, Hummels and Schweinsteiger, low Reus, Gündogan and Rüdiger, without the side Philipp Lahm, retired from the national team.

A moderate dose of uncertainty that the recent surprise defeat against Slovakia (1-3), a justifiable stumble on a waterlogged pitch corrected the Germans against Hungary (2-0) in the last test before Euro adds.

In the possible starting lineup tomorrow, the right course of Germany will rest on the experience under the sticks of Manuel Neuer and the fuel Toni Kroos, Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira in midfield. It will be the hard core accompanying one of the players called to strive to be the star of the tournament: Thomas Müller.

Germany, the youngest team of 24 at stake in France (25 years and 81 days) will also draw on the talents of new beads Bundesliga as Julian Draxler, Leroy Sane, Jonas Hector, Julian Weigl or Joshua Kimmich to finish the team Mario Götze on the tip of the attack.

Third in their qualifying group, behind Turkey and Hungary, Ukraine arrives in France as a footballing standard of a country much changed since it was host Euro 2012 with Poland.

The armed conflict has with Russia, also represented in the European Championship, make the French authorities have placed among the most sensitive equipment within an organization already geared to maximum safety of the competition.

In addition, the meeting will return to French soil of the German team, who disputed a friendly against Les Bleus on 13 November at the Estade de France in Paris when there were the first attacks of the series of simultaneous jihadist attacks that killed 130 dead in Paris.