A week and a half before the start of the European Championship, the German U21 national team won a (high-scoring) test match. The German Football Association's selection won 8:0 (5:0) against RB Leipzig's U19s. Eric Martel (4th minute), Paul Nebel (16th), Max Rosenfelder (27th), Brajan Gruda (30th), Nicolò Tresoldi (35th), Ansgar Knauff (52nd) and Nelson Weiper (86th/89th) scored the goals in the match as part of the training camp in Blankenhain.
"First of all, I'm glad that nobody got injured," said coach Antonio Di Salvo after the match. "The game was decent. We practised a lot of sequences that we were able to implement in the game and which we were also able to convert into goals. We scored a set-piece goal, won balls when pressing, played quickly forward and scored goals from them. All in all, I'm satisfied."
The U-21 national team is still preparing in Weimarer Land until Wednesday for this year's U-21 European Championship, which will take place in Slovakia from June 11-28. After missing out on the preliminary round in the summer of 2023, the DFB team wants to reach the final again this time. Slovenia (June 12), the Czech Republic (June 15) and England (June 18) are the group opponents. The two group winners will qualify for the quarter-finals.
