Das Reboot and the Road to UEFA Nations League & EC2020

And at the end of the day, German defenders defended well enough to get Germany out of the group stage had the attack worked better and if they’d been more clinical

 

Id like to see us play football again like in 2010. Remember? When we were the counterattacking side scoring 2 to 4 goals a game and Löw then decided we are now Spain but with less talent? We got quick players. We got decent CB and a decent MF.

 

You can’t just decide to play counter attack football. We need to have a balanced gameplan.

 

And the thoughts spinning around your head when someone’s countering you are extreme in the heat of the moment
2vs2 is hard enough
2vs3 is a hell

Never experienced a 2v4 situation unless it’s extra time, and you’re losing therefore sending everyone forward
And considering that this has happened so many times during the games says something about Germany’s formation out there

 

The problem for Germany is that you don't really have any "superstar" level players right now, and that showed at WC 2016. You've got a lot of semi-stars (like Ozil, Muller, Kroos, etc.), but nobody at the Messi/Ronaldo level.

This was a tournament where Germany needed a ruthless striker like Klinsmann or Klose to put the ball in the back of the net, but instead they had two average strikers (Gomez & Werner) and a lot of good, but not great, attacking mids (like Muller).

 

But you don’t need a superstar
And is one of the reasons why I like Germany is due to their neglection of relying on one/two players

If Germany wants to play counter attacking football then you have Werner.... anyway Werner positively surprised me when playing against deep lying defenses
Not as half bad as I thought

 

Superstar players are not needed to win a WC. We didn’t have any super stars in 2014. Spain had none in 2010. Etc.

 

True. But we should ditch the slow build up/possession for possession's sake approach though, quicker passing, better pressing, more dynamism, more pace. If that means slightly less possession so be it.

For quite a while now the team has been too one paced and easy to defend against. Need to be less predictable, and have players prepared to take more risks.

 

If Germany had a Ronaldo or Messi it wouldn’t even be fair to play with 11.

 

I don’t think its necessarily possession for the sake of possession. Its that our coaching staff never really understood how to implement a possession system properly.

Peps teams always had at least 2 or 3 players for example who would take players on 1v1. You need that element in a possession system backed up by proactive pressing to retain the ball and keep the pressure on.

 

That is my fave away kit. I vote black for away shirt!

 

I've seen a lot of coaches named here and I have one question: why does anyone think a successful club coach would take an NT job. It seems to me you get only second tier coaches doing this - any coach currently successful in the club environment are usually looking for a greater challenge or glory, not an NT job.

Just my thought, please prove me wrong and that we can get the best available coach for the NT.

 

Unfortunately it's hard to convince opponents to play that naively against us any more :-(

Preach!

 

What if Khedira or Draxler was one of the other 11?

 

Imagine if we had gotten Tuchel to take the job after his spat with Watzke & co...we could've let one of Messi or Ronaldo join the other's team and still walked them.

People underestimate just how bad Jogi is because of just how much talent, "german work ethic", and good fortune he has had.

 

I think Jupp might do it if he's not ready to retire completely but doesn't want to deal with the club-coach schedule even as a caretaker anymore...though I don't think it's likely at all even if Hoeneß & the bayern guys asked him to do it & manipulated his Obi-Wan-Kenobi-impulses.

And I think that after Klopp leaves Liverpool...whenever that is...the NT will be the next challenge he'd want just because of what a hipster he is. He doesn't speak spanish and has said multiple times that he doesn't want to learn any more new languages or coach in La Liga; so I don't think he'll want Barca or Real; while he has expressed interest in coaching the NT "some day". Running down the list I don't see PSG being an interesting challenge for him, nor can I see him ever coaching Bayern.

So whenever his Liverpool days end, what other next-job makes sense for him?...other than Union Berlin, obviously...

 

Thats like saying someone is an overrated premadonna.

 

Its seems to me that it was obvious to start him in game 3. Oh well.