BONN, June 5: Germany believe -rekindled team spirit will enable them to avenge their World Cup defeat when they play Bulgaria on Wednesday in their first encounter since Hristo Stoiphkpv'S side beat them in New YUrk^l^st year, reports AFP

Bulgaria top Group Seven with 15 points from five successive wins. Germany, held 1-1 by Wales the last time dut in April, have 13 points in their campaign for q place in next year's finals in England.

Juergen Klinsmann keeps the captaifi’s armband in place pf Lothar Matthaeus whose Achilles tendon injury prevents him from adding to his 122 caps.

Klinsmann, who has moved tp Bayern Munich after a fine season with Tottenham in England, is one of only four survivors from that New York match Germany lost.to a Sto-ichkov free-kick and a Yordan Lechkov diving header.

Matthias Sammer will marshall a reshuffled defence which is also misSing the in-. jured Juergen Kohler, Ralf Weber and Steffen Freund.

MArkus Babbel,comes in at right back but Vogts has yet to decide between Thomas Haessler and Andreas Moller for his playmaker.

Probable German team: Andreas Koepke. Matthias Sammer. Markus Babble. Stefan Ruter. Thomas 'Strunz (Dieter Eilts). Thomas Helmer. Christian Ziege, Mario Basler, Andreas Moeller (Thomas Haessler), Jurgen Klinsmann leapt), Heiko Herrlich.