Germany saves draw against Serbia early in the 2019 season | 1 NEWS NOW

For Germany, 2019 has started and 2018 is over – with a disappointing draw.

Leon Goretzka needed a tying goal in the second half to allow Germany to recover a 1-1 draw against Serbia this morning, four days before the start of its qualifying campaign for the UEFA Champions League. Europe, the Netherlands.

This is a difficult test since the Netherlands drew 2-2 with Germany in the last competitive game of the team and beat Germany 3-0 in October. . The Germans won one of seven competitive matches played in 2018, having failed in their reigning world champion group as defending champions and were relegated to second place in the League of Nations.

Coach Joachim Loew tried to shake the team against Serbia, but ended up relying on older faces after a mediocre first period.

Luka Jovic gave the advantage to Serbia in the 12th minute as one of Loew's new players, the first-year defender Lukas Klostermann, missed a clearance and sent the ball directly to the striker Serbian.

It was the first international goal for Jovic, who scored 22 goals for Frankfurt this season, and an encouraging sign for Serbia ahead of his qualifying match for Portugal on Tuesday morning. Serbia could have scored again but Adam Ljajic pulled the bar to ruin a good shot of the team.

Timo Werner, Leroy Sane and Ilkay Gundogan missed a series of good chances for Germany before Goretzka reached a 1-1 score in 69th place from the edge of the box after a pbad from his replacing Marco Reus.

Of the three uncapped players of the team, only Klostermann debuted. While Germany struggled again, Loew chose to leave Maximilian Eggestein, of Werder Bremen, and Niklas Stark, of Hertha Berlin, both midfielders.

Klostermann appeared to be injured late in the groin, while Milan Pavkov, Serbian substitute, was expelled at the end of a game stoppage for sinking his stallions into Sane's leg.