highly-rated winger "Mesut Oezil"

"Mesut Oezil brought a lot of creativity and was technically excellent, he has a good eye and can produce some dangerous situations for us."

highly-rated winger Mesut Oezil was confirmed as a starter for Wednesday's clash with Azerbaijan.

20-year-old Werder Bremen player Oezil scored in Saturday's 2-0 friendly win over South Africa.

Coach Joachim Loew used the speed of Oezil and fellow 20-year-old winger Marko Marin to exploit space down the flanks against South Africa.

Oezil put in the most eye-catching performance of the night having been handed his first start for Germany and Loew singled him out for praise before adding the youngster will start against Azerbaijan.

"Mesut Oezil brought a lot of creativity and was technically excellent, he has a good eye and can produce some dangerous situations for us." said the coach.

"He played very well in attack, but he still has things to learn on tracking back, but I am very happy with his performance. I assume he will start against Azerbaijan."

Germany lead Group Four by a single point and face their most important game of the qualification campaign so far when they take on Russia in Moscow on October 10.