Former world champions Germany will hope that 2019 brings a new dawn to the national side as they prepare to face Serbia in a friendly encounter in Wolfsburg on Wednesday.
Joachim Low’s side saw their reign on top of the globe come to a humiliating end in Russia last year where they failed to make it past the group stages, before they suffered the subsequent ignominy of a Nations League relegation to boot.
The 59-year-old has therefore swung the axe, handing first call-ups to new blood while evicting several perennial members of his squad from international consideration.