Arsenal forward Kai Havertz and Sunderland’s Brian Brobbey both went off injured as the Netherlands drew with Germany in the Nations League.<\/p>\n
Both teams were managed by a new high-profile boss – with ex-Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in charge of his native Germany and Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez taking charge of the Dutch.<\/p>\n
Felix Nmecha gave Germany the lead from close range in the first half.<\/p>\n
Liverpool’s Cody Gakpo equalised in injury time when he volleyed in a brilliant cross from Ruben van Bommel.<\/p>\n
But injuries in the first half could end up being a major talking point.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Havertz was caught on the knee by a high boot from Quinten Timber in Amsterdam and had to be replaced.<\/p>\n
Netherlands forward Brobbey – off the back off a hat-trick in Sunderland’s 5-3 defeat by Manchester City – then appeared to suffer a muscle injury.<\/p>\n
Klopp and Xavi were both managing in games for the first time since leaving Liverpool and Barcelona respectively in May 2024.<\/p>\n
Germany have named two different squads for this break, with a different selection for the first two and last two games.<\/p>\n
Late substitute Van Bommel became the third generation in his family to play for the Netherlands, following father Mark van Bommel and grandfather Bert van Marwijk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal forward Kai Havertz and Sunderland’s Brian Brobbey both went off injured as the Netherlands drew with Germany…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-904184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904184","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=904184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}