Germany v England: the revenge match for the “machines”

Nearly a year after the confrontation between Germany and England in the eighth final of the European Football Cup and ended with the latter’s victory (2-0), the “German Machines” are playing a revenge match against the “Three Lions” team today, Tuesday (21:45 Beirut time) in Munich during the second round of the European Nations League. The two teams need to win after England lost their opening match against Hungary (0-1) in the third group of the first level, while Germany suffered a tie against Italy, which played in a substitute squad after playing the “Finalissima” match against Argentina only three days ago.

The Munich stadium bears a good memory for the England national team because it inflicted its German counterpart with a heavy loss (5-1) in September 2001 in the World Cup qualifiers in South Korea and Japan.
On the other hand, the German national team has not lost in 10 matches so far since Hansi Flick received his coaching after the last European Cup, where his team achieved 8 victories in a row before two draws in the last two matches, but most of the teams he faced so far were modest, while his team did not make two offers Good against the Netherlands in March (1-1) in a friendly and against Italy (1-1) a few days ago in the European Nations League.
Flick commented on the last match against Italy, saying: “The result was not up to our expectations. We lacked momentum, coordination, especially in defence. We have better quality, we lacked precision.” Flick relies on a large group of Bayern Munich players, led by goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka and Serge Gnabry.
Despite the failure of “National Manchaft” in the last two tournaments by exiting from the first round in the World Cup Russia in 2018 in an easy group that included Mexico, Sweden and South Korea in which it ranked last, and then falling in the eighth final against England in the last European Cup, the German team trusts its chances in the possibility of Winning the world title in the World Cup in Qatar, scheduled from November 21 to December 18 next, and equalizing the record for Brazil (5 times). And his journey in the Nations League will give a clearer idea of ​​the extent of the capabilities of the Germans to compete for the world title or not.
In the most prominent matches today, Italy will play Hungary and Lithuania with Turkey at the same time (21:45 Beirut time).