Germans on brink of perfect qualification

A win at home to Austria in Gelsenkirchen in their Group A qualifier would put Germany through with two games to spare and would take their qualifying record to eight wins out of eight games.

"What we want to focus on now is to seal qualification and on Friday we have a huge chance at home against Austria to achieve this," captain Philipp Lahm told reporters.

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