Against Cyprus and Bosnia
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ÖFB team boss Ralf Rangnick presented the last squad of the year on Tuesday for the decisive games in the World Cup qualification against Cyprus and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Of the 24 men from the October course, no one was left out of the squad, but two new players, the recovered Xaver Schlager and Nicolas Kristof, are added. This is the first nomination for the 25-year-old goalkeeper from the German second division club SV Elversberg; the Heidelberg native last played for the ÖFB team in 2015 in the U16 team (more on the squad in detail).
The complete squad:
GOAL: Nicolas KRISTOF (SV Elversberg/GER; 0), Patrick PENTZ (Bröndby IF/DEN; 17), Nikolas POLSTER (RZ Pellets WAC; 0), Alexander SCHLAGER (FC Red Bull Salzburg; 22)
DEFENSE: David ALABA (Real Madrid CF/ESP; 111/15), Kevin DANSO (Tottenham Hotspur/ENG; 28/0), Marco FRIEDL (SV Werder Bremen/GER; 7/0), Philipp LIENHART (SC Freiburg/GER; 36/3), Phillipp MWENE (1. FSV Mainz 05/GER; 26/0), Stefan POSCH (Como 1907/ITA; 47/4), Alexander PRASS (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim/GER; 16/0), Leopold QUERFELD (1. FC Union Berlin/GER; 5/0)
MIDFIELD: Christoph BAUMGARTNER (RB Leipzig/GER; 54/19), Florian GRILLITSCH (SC Braga/POR; 57/1), Marco GRÜLL (SV Werder Bremen/GER; 7/0), Konrad LAIMER (FC Bayern Munich/GER; 53/7), Marcel SABITZER (Borussia Dortmund/GER; 93/23), Xaver SCHLAGER (RB Leipzig/GER; 47/4), Romano SCHMID (SV Werder Bremen/GER; 29/3), Alessandro SCHÖPF (RZ Pellets WAC; 34/6), Nicolas SEIWALD (RB Leipzig/GER; 42/0), Patrick WIMMER (VfL Wolfsburg/GER; 26/1)
ATTACK: Marko ARNAUTOVIC (SD Crvena Zvezda/SRB; 128/45), Raul FLORUCZ (Royale Union St. Gilloise/BEL; 3/0), Michael GREGORITSCH (Bröndby IF/DEN; 70/22), Nikolaus WURMBRAND (SK Rapid; 1/1)