Evening live coverage converged on Amsterdam, where JĂĽrgen Klopp debuted as Bundestrainer against the Netherlands. After Musiala's late withdrawal and Havertz going off injured, Felix Nmecha scored the first goal of the Klopp era, a disallowed van Dijk strike and Dutch protests preceded a stoppage-time equalizer that left the match 1-1, with papers judging the point fortunate.
The Berlin Left's contested victory kept generating copy: Spiegel pressed how Koçak could fail to recognize Firas Rammo, police voiced alarm, Woidke called a left government a security risk, and Gysi compared Merz's stance to that of the Nazis, while Jan Korte demanded consequences over antisemitism incidents.
Elsewhere, economic institutes doubled the 2026 growth forecast to 1.3%, the coalition haggled over the pension-at-63 compromise, and the AfD's Saxony-Anhalt takeover plans and internal criticism of its leadership drew attention.