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[01-07-2021 | Team Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Russia | 23:45 BST]
The meeting room on the second floor smelled of instant coffee and printer toner. A single projector threw the shape of tomorrow's possible lineup onto the wall, boxes and lines shifting every time someone leaned over the laptop and dragged a name from one column to another.
Löw sat at the head of the table, sleeves rolled to the elbow, a red marker capped and uncapped in his hand like a metronome. Around him, his assistants rounded the table calmly analysing the team sheet. Fredrick Bauer, his assistant manager, reached for the tablet and began moving players around.
