Arsenal playmaker Mesut Özil is set to miss international action with Germany at the end of the week following a knee-injury.

The club confirmed that Özil missed the Newcastle United game due to injury on their official Twitter account.

The Independent reported that Özil will be out for a week which would rule him out of the Germany national team games against.

Germany take on Poland on 4 September and Scotland on 7 September.

Germany squad in full:

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Marc-André ter Stegen (Barcelona), Ron-Robert Zieler(Hannover)

Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich) Emre Can (Liverpool), Matthias Ginter and Mats Hummels(Borussia Dortmund) Jonas Hector(Köln), Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia), Sebastian Rudy (Hoffenheim)

Midfielders: Karim Bellarabi and Christoph Kramer (Bayer Leverkusen), Ilkay Gundogan and Marco Reus(Dortmund), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Lukas Podolski(Galatasaray), Andre Schurrle (Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger ((Manchester United)

Forwards: Mario Gotze (Bayern Munich), Max Kruse (Wolfsburg), Kevin Volland (Hoffenheim)

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