Germany is still waiting for its first UEFA Nations League victory.After a 1–1 draw against Spain on Thursday, Germany beat Switzerland on Sunday.In neither game, the Nationalmannschaft failed to put an advantage on the line, and Sunday’s split time may have been the worst functionality since Germany’s 2-0 defeat to South Korea at the 2018 World Cup.
Both results, in fact, can renew calls for DFB to make radical changes, starting with German coach Joachim Lew.After all, the German national team has had a downward trajectory since won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
This may also be due to the fact that Joachim Lew lost to his right-hand man Hansi Flick, the long-time assistant left by staff after the World Cup.summer in which he took Bayern Munich to the first team in history to win the Champions League without defeat.
What about Lew? Germany, despite having one of the most talented groups on the planet, failed to win the Euros in 2016 and then collapsed at the 2018 World Cup.The UEFA Nations League relegation has only been avoided by one rule.replace, and the flawless classification for the Euro 2020 was painted in many tactical cracks in the existing configuration.
“Having the lead twice and winning behind Spain or Switzerland is boring,” Lunw said after the adjustment against Switzerland.”We will attack at the October games. Not all of our players are in a wonderful way right now.”There are some. In fact, although you have only limited your team, other groups are also dealing with this issue.
After the World Cup and the deficient effects on the League of Nations, he withdrew, perhaps unnecessarily, Thomas Muller, Jerome Boateng and Mats Hummels, provided that Muller and Boateng, along with the other Bayern players who won the Champions League, would not have been anyway, but the insistence on betting has an oppressed taste for counterattack, as would Niko Kova’s insistence on betting on Bayern with defensive football.
Even in reconstruction, Germany will be the favorite nine out of ten times.Against Spain on Thursday, Roja was invited back to the attack, the draw won in extra time was only consequential for the way Germany made the adjustment in the full 90 minutes.Meanwhile, the Swiss might have gone through a long undefeated streak at home; however, Germany deserves to make this adjustment in a dominant way and not sit deeply, exposing its baseline and waiting for counterattacks.
“As in the match against Spain, we deserved to score the goal of the moment, which would have given us more security,” Lunw said after the match.”We let them go back to the game, we lost too many balls and we weren’t decisive enough.”. The result is a faithful representation of the party.”
It is true that Germany had occasions to score a goal at the time, but in the middle of the moment, the Swiss were the biggest team, taking advantage of the merit of the area that gave them a poorly organized German lag.”We were in a smart position in this fit and once back we didn’t win,” striker Ilkay Gondogan said of the fit in Switzerland.”We’re missing some solutions, we’re a little tired. It’s very boring.”
The sentence of the moment is devastating in many ways. Even with Joshua Kimmich and Serge Gnabry absent due to Bayern Munich’s victory in the Champions League, there was still a lot of world-class skill on the field, to put that in perspective, the combined market price of the German team is $789.25 million, the Swiss team is priced at just $197.18 million.
That’s right, cash doesn’t score goals. But the combined maximum values of the market have in fact been reflected in the field, where Germany has shown more dominance.Instead, there was little inspiration in midfield, out-of-control races and no coherent tactical plan.
“We want more answers when we’re in a competitive hurry,” Captain Toni Kroos said after the match.”We have to work on that, we want players to ball it, even when we’re under pressure.”These responses wish to be temporarily evolved through a training team, led through Lew, who since 2018 have shown little sign of true tactical innovation.
Manuel Veth is the editor-in-chief of the Futbolgrad network and Area Manager USA in Transfermarkt, he has also been to The Guardian, Newsweek, Howler, Pro Soccer USA and several other media outlets.Follow him on Twitter: @ManuelVeth