{"id":123855,"date":"2025-09-06T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123855\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:39:13","slug":"explosion-at-cricket-match-in-pakistans-northwest-kills-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123855\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at cricket match in Pakistan\u2019s northwest kills one"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\tBERLIN: Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann on Saturday pledged changes to his side for Sunday\u2019s crunch World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland in Cologne after falling to a 2-0 defeat in Slovakia.

\n\tThe Germans were thoroughly outclassed against Slovakia on Thursday, losing to the underdog side for the first time in their history.

\n\tThe four-time World Cup winners had never previously lost a qualification match for the tournament.

\n\tA further disappointment against Northern Ireland would leave Nagelsmann\u2019s men with little room for error in their bid to qualify directly for the World Cup.

\n\tNagelsmann, 38, slammed his players\u2019 attitude after the defeat on Thursday, saying they lacked emotion and were \u201cmiles away\u201d from a good performance.

\n\t\u201cWe had five decent minutes. That\u2019s not enough,\u201d the coach said.

\n\tAt full-time, captain Joshua Kimmich said \u201cif we perform like we did today, we\u2019ll definitely not qualify\u201d for the World Cup.

\n\tOn Saturday, Nagelsmann said: \u201cThere will certainly be some changes in terms of personnel. Not all 10 players will be rotated, but we have to put in a better performance than we did on Thursday.\u201d

\n\tGermany have improved under Nagelsmann after a poor decade, with group stage exits at the Russia and Qatar World Cups bookending a last-16 Euros defeat to England in 2021.

\n\tTaking over in late 2023, Germany lost just one of 15 matches in 2024 \u2014 a quarter-final exit at the hands of eventual champions Spain at the European Championships.

\n\tThis year, Germany have lost three and drawn one of their five games and risk an unthinkable failure to qualify for next year\u2019s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

\n\tThe coach said he had no fears about his future despite copping criticism in the German press, saying \u201cit\u2019s never good to be afraid.\u201d

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m still brave enough and I want to win every game and we\u2019ll try and do our best tomorrow,\u201d he said.

\n\t\u201cThe team is important, not me, and I think we\u2019ll do a better job tomorrow than on Thursday.\u201d

\n\tGermany were given a rare bit of good news on Saturday, with forward Serge Gnabry cleared to play after picking up an arm injury against Slovakia.

\n\tThe Germans are dealing with an injury crisis, particularly up front, with Jamal Musiala, Kai Havertz, Tim Kleindienst and Niclas Fuellkrug all missing through injury.

\n\tOn Thursday, Germany called up Borussia Dortmund forward Maximilian Beier to replace the injured Fuellkrug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BERLIN: Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann on Saturday pledged changes to his side for Sunday\u2019s crunch World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-123855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}