2023-11-22 22:45:23
“I am stunned by this development and don’t know which screws you need to turn to get rid of this chaos in the short term,” said the 71-year-old man from FC Bayern Munich to the trade magazine “kicker”. In his opinion, there is a system error and the players are winning too few duels.
The German media landscape was equally horrified. The “Bild” asked about the “black night in Vienna: Oh God, what was that? So we can forget the European Championships!” The Munich “Abendzeitung” wrote about a “severely confused DFB eleven”, and the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” even described the current situation as a “mood of demolition”.
German national team under criticism
The recent weak performances have clearly left their mark on the German national football team. On Tuesday, during the 0-2 defeat against Austria in Vienna, Leroy Sane was tempted to attack Phillipp Mwene and received a red card.
“An unbelievable amount of work”
National coach Julian Nagelsmann was correspondingly frustrated after his second defeat in the fourth game. You have to accept that there is “an incredible amount of work. There are things where we have to start. It’s all about extremely hard work and German virtues, that’s a fact. We cannot die beautifully. We won’t be defensive monsters in the summer either.”
GEPA/Armin Rauthner Julian Nagelsmann was also surprised by his team’s performance
The young coach also sees a mental problem among his players: “The team is not liberated. We are not this unit that we are off the field. We’re not full of self-confidence, that’s just a fact. That’s obvious when you look at the last few years.” Nagelsmann still doesn’t want to deviate from his path.
“Now you can of course say that I’ll change everything again in March and come up with a completely different idea,” said the former Bayern coach. “Or we say, we’ll go further and try to follow the path of a top team.” Nagelsmann defended Kai Havertz’s controversial role on the left wing, complained about “absurd” ball losses and appeared combative. “I now want to slowly get out of this victim role, how bad everything has been in the last few years, and how few games we win, and, and, and.”
Kickers put their rods in the window
The coach put the rod in the window for his kickers. “In the end, for us it’s a bit about being aware of the situation and choosing the right players who might not be as good a fit at another time, but who might fit a little better at the moment in the status in which they are the national team is currently in.”
Press reviews
“Vienna Watschn while sweeping” for the DFB team
Sports director Rudi Völler also gave the players something. “It’s not primarily about the result, but the way it went, it’s not nice, we can’t put up with it, and it has to get better,” said the 1990 world champion. “I know that’s always a problem Term, a word that is overused, but we lack a bit of German virtues.” The DFB selection must bring “the five to ten percent of passion, dynamism, energy” into play. “Otherwise it will be difficult,” said Völler.
Building a real team is a priority
Meanwhile, Nagelsmann emphasized that the latest results were not due to internal discontent. Aside from the games, his team is a “very closed community with incredibly good cooperation.” There are still “too many lone fighters” in the game. His job now is to form a real team.
“Basically, the mindset of a coach is not: I have an idea and I’ll throw it into a team, but of course we look at what kind of players we have?” said the 36-year-old, later reporting that There may be “five sixes” and “five tens”, but only one and a half strikers and, if at all, half a left-back. “Then you might have to bite your fist and say, maybe one less top talent and one more worker,” said the national coach. Nagelsmann can worry about that until the next game in four months.
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