Injured Ozil to miss Germany's final World Cup warm-up

AFP  |  Berlin 

Arsenal star Ozil will miss Germany's final warm-up match tomorrow with a knee injury, but the attacking midfielder's participation in is not in danger, according to the German football federation.

The midfielder, who picked up the in Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Austria, has not taken part in full training over the last four days at Germany's pre-camp in Eppan,

"It's nothing dramatic, we just don't want to take any risk and he was able to sprint in training. I assume he will be okay for the World Cup," said Germany's

Ozil, who finished the 2017/18 season with a back injury, faces a race to get his knee ready for Germany's first game against in on June 17 having also drawn and in Group F.

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First Published: Thu, June 07 2018. 17:00 IST