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Germany's 2018 World Cup squad: Who joins Muller & Ozil in 23-man squad?

The 2014 winners are looking to defend their title in Russia and Joachim Low had many tough decisions to make as he chose his final panel

World Cup holders Germany are one of the favourites to win the trophy this summer in Russia, with expectations further heightened by their perfect qualification record and 2017 Confederations Cup victory.

Germany won all 10 of their qualifying games, putting seven past San Marino, beating Norway 6-1 and recording a 5-1 win over Azerbaijan to comfortably progress to their 19th World Cup. This impressive run was broken up by a trip to Russia last summer which saw Joachim Low bring a panel of fringe and young players to the Confederations Cup where a 1-0 win over Chile in the final gave them another international trophy.