"It was a vicious foul," Loew said. "Sane was lucky and got away with not getting hurt, but such fouls can break bones."

Still, it was apparent the youthful Germany squad is ongoingly stumbling over a stony road trying to regaining sovereignty after national coach's Joachim Loew's decision to no longer count on experienced forces such as Mats Hummels (30), Jerome Boateng (30) and Thomas Mueller (29/all Bayern Munich).

Against Serbia, seven German performers were 23 or younger. That might change Sunday as Toni Kroos (29/Real Madrid), Marco Reus (29/Borussia Dortmund) and Antonio Ruediger (26/Chelsea) will return to the starting 11.

"It might have hurt not to be selected in 2018, but it helped him to develop. He learned from this, he changed his approach and made his conclusions; apparently, it was the right ones," former U.S. and German national teams' coach Juergen Klinsmann commented.

The young upstart has developed to a determined professional after he became a father of a daughter last September and made his way in one of Europe's best side' counting on the support of his Manchester coach Pep Guardiola.

And, maybe most important, the son of a German mother and a Senegalese father strictly followed the Spaniard's advice to take more responsibility for his action on and off the pitch after having won the PFA Young Player of the Year award in 2017/2018 when he scored 10 goals and assisted 15 times.

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