Mustafi - Why I held up a Reus shirt

Shkodran Mustafi has revealed why he held up a Marco Reus shirt to celebrate winning the World Cup with Germany.

The Arsenal defender only made his international debut a month before the 2014 tournament and said that he would not have even travelled to Brazil were it not for Reus’ injury.

“I played a game just before the World Cup,” Mustafi told Arsenal Player. “I was in the last 27 but I didn’t make the last 23. But then Marco got injured and I got a call to join the team again, so I went to Brazil.

“When you think that you didn’t make the 23 players the first time, you think, ‘OK, I go there now, but my chances of playing aren’t going to be that big’. But straight away in the first game, you…