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Germany v Curacao team news: Sane + Brown start

14 June 2026 135 comments
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Sunday’s FIFA World Cup action gets underway with the biggest mismatch of the tournament so far: Germany v Curacao.

Kick-off in Houston is at 18:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

The team news is pretty much as expected from Germany.

Nathaniel Brown ($4.7m) starts over David Raum ($4.9m) at left-back, as was heavily signposted by Nationalmannschaft’s final three pre-tournament friendlies.

And the injury to Lennart Karl has cleared a path for Leroy Sane ($7.4m) to start on the right wing.

Also as anticipated, Kai Havertz ($7.8m) leads the line ahead of positional rivals Nick Woltemade ($7.2m) and Deniz Undav ($6.6m).

Manuel Neuer ($5.0m) follows in the footsteps of Lothar Matthaus and becomes the second German to play in five World Cups.

Jurgen Locadia ($4.1m), sent off in the warm-up game against Scotland, returns to lead the line for Curacao.

Six Germany players are owned by more than 10% of World Cup Fantasy managers: Neuer, Havertz, Joshua Kimmich ($5.5m), Florian Wirtz ($7.5m), Jamal Musiala ($8.0m) and Antonio Rudiger ($5.5m). The latter, however, is a substitute this evening.

No Curacao player has ownership of greater than 0.5%.

LINE-UPS

Germany XI: Neuer; Kimmich, Tah, Schlotterbeck, Brown; Nmecha, Pavlovic; Sane, Musiala, Wirtz; Havertz.

Curacao XI: Room; Floranus, Obispo, Bazoer, Fonville; Comenencia, L Bacuna; J Bacuna, Chong, Hansen; Locadia.

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  1. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    2 hours, 15 mins ago

    Havertz x2

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  2. JBG
    • 8 Years
    2 hours, 14 mins ago

    Undav haul

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    1. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      2 hours, 12 mins ago

      Took a chance on him
      2nd highest scorer in German league?

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  3. Fifa las vegas
    • 13 Years
    2 hours, 14 mins ago

    That probably means I stick with Havertz captain then.

    Fun’s over 😆

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    1. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 hours, 11 mins ago

      That's why Max Captain is best played in this round .
      Plenty more miss matched games still to come .

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      1. Nightcrawler
        • 7 Years
        2 hours, 5 mins ago

        and thats why basically everyone's going to get a haul for captain

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      2. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        2 hours, 4 mins ago

        That a fair point, I hadn’t planned ahead that much for this game.

        There’s mismatched games every round though

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        1. Fifa las vegas
          • 13 Years
          2 hours, 2 mins ago

          I could also envisage a benefit in much later rounds, even semis or final where everyone has much same team but no chance to change captain, it might give an advantage if you happen upon that random goalscorer in those games

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          1. Fifa las vegas
            • 13 Years
            2 hours ago

            I didn’t even know there was such a thing as qualification booster until I decided to actually look up the rules now.

            This game…

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          2. Christina.
            • 16 Years
            1 hour, 54 mins ago

            Exactly.

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    2. Dank Squid
      • 7 Years
      1 hour, 44 mins ago

      Wirtz/Havertz, still having "fun". No, I ignored the gut feeling and failed. Jealous. I hope Haaland scores a goal or two

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  4. Underdogs11
    • 5 Years
    2 hours, 14 mins ago

    Can you see how many teams are involved? I can only see my total rank.

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    1. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      2 hours, 13 mins ago

      You cannot

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    2. FOREST FOREVER 2
      • 1 Year
      2 hours, 4 mins ago

      I am also curious to know.
      I think top 10k finish is still a tough job here. Most of the managers are pretty engaged.
      i finished around 4k in Euro 2024. But surely the total number is much higher here.

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    3. Aido1975
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      1 hour, 57 mins ago

      I had nobody playing in the first 4 matches and I was just inside the top 900k on zero points at that stage. So I reckon there are probably around 1 million players., maybe slightly more as a few others would have been in the same boat.

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    4. Christina.
      • 16 Years
      1 hour, 54 mins ago

      When I had 0 my rank was 1.3m

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      1. Underdogs11
        • 5 Years
        1 hour, 19 mins ago

        Ok, thanx! I'll use that. 😉

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  5. DocSocrates
    • 8 Years
    2 hours, 11 mins ago

    Wirtz a sell next round - involved but not deadly

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    1. Thanos
      • 4 Years
      2 hours, 6 mins ago

      For sure

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    2. Dank Squid
      • 7 Years
      1 hour, 38 mins ago

      Never was (deadly). The Switzerland game (2g 2a) boosted his stats/returns. He's a nice guy, too nice, doing bits, mates scoring. Great team player

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