Das Reboot and the Road to UEFA Nations League & EC2020

🇩🇪 Your Germany Player of the Year 2019 is @MatzeGinter! 🎉

Congrats, Matthias 👏#DieMannschaft pic.twitter.com/Dfp6ClQsTH

— germanfootball_dfb (@DFB_Team_EN) January 10, 2020

feels like Gnabry deserved it more he ended up in 2nd place.

 

GK coach Kopke said Nubel is unlikely to be nominated for Germany after his Bayern move as he has to play to even be considered.

I do think we got tons of promising up and coming GKs but all of those guys are down the line like bunch of years from now.

Current options seem to be aging Neuer, ter Stegen, Leno who never convinced for Germany and the decent Trapp

 

if every player is fit for the Euro the defense will be the real issue at the tourney. Do we even have set pair or trio?Rudiger is finally back and then Sule is crosswire whether he makes it or not but even then they will lack match practice as a group going into the tourney.

 

Italians know how to dev GKs and defenders. It's one reason why Germany always struggles vs Italian.

modern day cb is becoming harder to dev, feels like the 2 spectrum of CB and CF is the one majority of countries struggle to dev.
and then just because you dev a cb or cf doesn't make them International quality.

and Kane (most undeserved WC Golden Boot winner ever) might miss the Euro too, huge blow to England.

 

even with those players they didn't really look good vs Germany and we were missing numerous players last time we met. What helped them is that we were shit at the back their defense might be better than Germany but not unpenetrable.

when discussing NT, what one does at club isn't extremely relevant since tons of players don't replicate form.

 

that's cool, did you also get tickets for the Italy game or just Spain. Let's hope we beat Spain so that it makes your game more fun!!!

 

honestly Low is rarely enthusiastic about anything but I wouldn't be surprised if Gosens is overlooked. We are getting too close to Euro to try new players and that we had so many injury problems over past year and it's last few games to prep before it's Summer.

 

playing a friendly in Atletico Madrid's stadium full of Spaniards, we need to have people supporting the team. Booo to your friend, guess a draw would be the only way to salvage the friendship.

I honestly can't stand Spain or France. I at least respect the Italians.

 

I understand why interest went down as one generation ends, it takes time for another to rise.
2014 WC was the end of Lahm, Basti (even if he played until 2016, his real end was 14), Per, Podolski, Klose all being done, end of a great era of players who all started during the bad times.

if it wasn't for the fact that I've watched every single Germany game for almost 22 years, I would also have been tempted to lose interest as one could see that the newer generation weren't going to be able to replicate the older ones and some are even saying current Germany is basically late 90s/early 00s at it's worse.

bombing at the WC and bombing at the NL does 0 to attract interest. Imagine Germany bombs at the 2024 Euro at home. That's one tourney that dfb can't embarrass themselves at.

 

why? Is it wrong for Low to call up his secret son?

Draxler was ALWAYS overrated and he currently benefits due to lack of attackers. Once more promising W/AM start to breakthrough there would be even less reason to call him up.

Stindl at least always looked good for Germany and was perfectly in synch with the younger players. At the CC, he looked more like the captain than forced Draxler.

as for defensive, I really think that had Sule-Rudiger been fit the whole time and built chemistry together, we would look better. But that's not what happened and Sule either barely makes it or he misses out.....

 

I think worst part for me is that I don't even rate Rudiger that highly and he's like one of our best options, yikes. After Sule-Rudiger the quality just goes down and down. Not looking good. Guys like Ginter are decent but that's pretty much it.

we really need to find our Hummels-Boa, doesn't have to be a 1 for 1 but in 2 CBs who can be huge difference maker.

All I'm seeing is CBs who remind me of the guys from the dark times, LOL.

On some other note
as for Kehrer he doesn't even play anymore ever since he cameback from injury. Trapp is back and Can (who I don't rate) at least has a club now where he can play. Let's hope he's not used at CB, lol.