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And a warm welcome to the show, which I will correctly title ESPNFC tonight in the company of Craig Burley,

you reminded me of my mistake yesterday, and Shaka Hislop.

Went back to the old days.

Yeah, yesterday of nostalgia.

We will continue what we were talking about yesterday with World Cup qualifying more games today.

And Germany took care of business in fairly unconvincing fashion.

Two-0 winners against Luxembourg.

Slovakia got a late winner to hold off Northern Ireland.

So it all leads to a big clash on Monday in Leipzig where Germany plays Slovakia to win the group in automatic qualification.

Now then, joined also by Frank Leboof and Janager Fiortov, the evening gentleman to both of you.

Let's start with Germany. Actually, Craig, give us your reaction to what you saw from the Germans today.

I thought they struggled for long periods

against this Luxembourg side. I mean, Germany, Luxembourg, they're struggling. Fair play to

Luxembourg for that, but this is a very, I mean, should we call it an average German side? I mean,

that's probably been nice. We were just talking before we came on air and yawning myself about Germany, because he covers

a lot of it obviously.

And this Slovakia game is now huge.

Now in days gone by, you think Germany at home against Slovakia, very professional, should get the job done.

That might be the case.

But when you watch this German team play in this group stage, when you watch them play today, there is nothing, and I mean nothing convincing about them

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