Four-time champions Germany and 2010 winners Spain are set to collide in Qatar after being drawn to meet in the same group at the World Cup finals.
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The European giants will also face Japan as well as the winners of an intercontinental play-off between Costa Rica and New Zealand in Group E.
Spain thrashed Germany 6-0 in a Nations League match in November 2020.
Germany goalkeeper and captain Manuel Neuer said: “It was inevitable that we were going to get a strong opponent from the pot.
“We have negative memories, but something like that doesn’t happen to us twice,” he said, referring to the heavy away defeat in Spain.
“We’re confident, we’re going to have a good tournament,” the Bayern Munich player added.
“They are all serious opponents, we will have to be on our toes.”
Germany crashed out of the group stages at the 2018 World Cup and lost to England in the last 16 of the European championship finals last June.