We can now bring you our experts’ predicted teams as well as player news for Thursday’s upcoming World Cup game.
Costa Rica are hoping to win again following a 0-1 World Cup success vs Japan. It’s our opinion that Los Ticos should line up in a 5-4-1 system, utilising Keylor Navas, Keysher Fuller, Daniel Chacón, Oscar Duarte, Kendall Waston, Bryan Oviedo, Gerson Torres, Celso Borges, Y. Ignacio Tejeda, Joel Campbell and Anthony Contreras.
Costa Rica manager will be happy not to have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match with a fully healthy group to pick from.
How Costa Rica might line up vs Germany
In their last fixture, Germany drew 1-1 in the World Cup match with Spain. We believe Die Mannschaft could decide to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Manuel Neuer, Thilo Kehrer, Niklas Süle, Antonio Rüdiger, David Raum, Joshua Kimmich, Ilkay Gündogan, Leroy Sane, Thomas Müller, Jamal Musiala and Niclas Füllkrug.
With a fully healthy group to pick from, Germany manager Hansi Flick has no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game.
Predicted Germany team
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