German Fraulein National Team 2020 & beyond

I think MVT was seen in Leverkusen at that time but I guess she have told Pawollek before this decision that she doesn`t play a role in MVT`s plans. I don`t think that USA is interested in a player that currently plays for Bayern II.

 

I'll give MVT a little credit for finally using a true CM within one of the double 6 roles of her teams 4-2-3-1. But are you also really trying to compare the squad of a 6th place Eintracht Frankfurt, with the options available to MVT's German wnt lol....

MVT has CM options like Lattwein, Oberdorf, Leupolz, Nüsken, Lohmann, to use within double 6 roles for a 4-2-3-1 formation. Making the need to ever see Marozsan - Däbritz starting together again.... completely redundant.

Just comparing Nüsken-Däbritz, to Marozsan-Däbritz, it's blatant to anyone with minimal football knowledge just how inferior the more gifted Marozsan-Däbritz partnership are in the 4-2-3-1.

 

... She was awful for HUGE stretches of both matches. So poor even MVT would make post match comments about Krumbiegel's confused actions, saying she had to constantly talk/direct her throughout the match.

Honestly... for a player who can't get into her club side ahead of a younger Brand, it should be easy to acknowledge just how far beyond her current capabilities senior wnt football is for Krumbiegel right now.

In a few years she may be ready... but the Krumbiegel we currently see has the slow reaction speed, poor balance, and low awareness, you simply can't justify/accept as a starter within a senior wnt blessed with far better options.

Looking beyond MVT's main three WF's (Huth, Bühl, Waßmuth), I see Däbritz, Brand, Gwinn, Anyomi, Wamser, all vastly superior to Krumbiegel. Oh, and this with me also leaving out potential wnt WF options like a young but impressive Corley, or a deceptively effective Loos from SC Sand.

Plus Krumbiegel isn't even quick lol... so I have absolutely zero idea why you continue to mention this as a positive attribute of her game.

 

Donhauser gets enough playing time...for Bayern II.

 

Just saw the cup final, and honestly... I feel like Kleinherne could have easily been called POTM, no...?

So yes... she definitely has some obvious issues with the execution of her various attempts to carry the ball into mid-field, but there's also a pretty strong emerging international caliber CB for MVT to select too.

I mean, both Kleinherne and Doorsoun are weak in the air, providing very similar attributes in speed during 1v1 duels; but I still feel like Kleinherne the overall better calmer/less impetuous defender when to comes to making tackles in or around the penalty area.

 

A reborn Hegering as a #1st choice club and wnt CB, would probably function best with a CB partner like Kleinherne. As Kleinherne's speed is similar to Doorsoun (good to cover Hegering's aggressiveness attacking the ball), but with the bonus of her being far better on the ball... even if it comes with overconfidence dribbling leading to self imposed expensive errors.

Meaning if Kleinherne - Doorsoun - Hegering - Feldkamp are MVT's 4 main CB options now, she'll need to test the defense without Hegering, if this new look team doesn't have CB options like Elsig part of the future plans.

Doorsoun/Kleinherne = both not physically strong, but both pretty quick. Lacking strength winning balls in the air, showcasing insecurities whenever tasked with responsibilities in moving the ball into mid-field.

This isn't great if Feldkamp becomes the latest CM being asked to play at CB. Surely forcing MVT to look at a Wirtz, Wedemeyer, or Stegemann.

 

Oh, and can somebody explain why Wolter has never held any role within MVT's plans...?

I remember she was excellent within Germany's last U-20 WWC winning team as a CB, and has all the obvious attributes of a strong RB too.

Wedemeyer's exclusion can be explained (not enough starting minutes for Wolfsburg)... but Wolter's continued absence from the senior team is really puzzling...

 

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Probably a controversial take lol... but seeing her play again, I feel like Oberdorf is already a vastly superior player compared to Leupolz too; with Nüsken and Lohmann both on the path to also move beyond Leupolz very soon.

I'm not seeing evidence why Däbritz - Marozsan - Popp - Leupolz should be first choice mid-fielders for MVT's Euro's side....

 

No Simon again... and still no looks at new legitimate defensive options. It feels like the senior program/MVT will never learn...

Seeing Oberdorf, Brand, and Lattwein's names all back in the defenders list, just smells of absolute stubbornness to acknowledge the obvious flaws in the programs female player analysis (Lattwein will NEVER be a CB).

But no Wolter or Rall as FB options... as if Maier is still somehow relevant at the elite level. Bringing back Knaak..., while continuing to pretend Starke has any genuine role on the team lol.

 

Wolter is a really strong multifunctional role player at Wolfsburg, who's unfortunately moved to them as a highly promising CB, and instead found herself deployed anywhere but at CB by her new coaches...

And what's worse is knowing fools within the WNT program would rather select/waste talented young CM's like Oberdorf, Feldkamp, Lattwein, in CB roles, when these fools witnessed what potential Wolter has a CB helping the U-20's win a world title.

Examples like this for me highlighting how incompetent the DFB's female program remains at tracking/analyzing it's talent. As wnt's with far less to work with, simply wouldn't allow a defensive talent like Wolter to disappear; they'd select her regardless of her club's decisions.

 

Did you not see how suffocated Frankfurt's mid-field/attack was for HUGE stretches of that final...? If Kleinherne didn't attempt to move the ball forward, her team would have never left their half with any degree of accuracy over the 90 mins of normal time.

Besides one clear dribbling error Vs Wolfsburg, I think Kleinherne proved she's probably a better defender than Doorsoun. Meaning her true test will be what happens when teams sit back, allowing her to have the ball believing she incapable of passing the ball forward accurately.

As right now believing her player pool without the CB talent to both defend, and progress the ball into mid-fielders and forwards with accuracy, MVT has turned to converting CM's (with limited success), into patchwork CB's.

So can't a young Kleinherne be a better option than MVT needlessly wasting time converting CM's into panicked CB's..?

 

MVT should just concentrate on constructing a strong team from a mere 14 players first. Then Germany's 22 player wnt squad may actually accomplish something more than failing at the elite level of competition when it matters most...

Seriously.... wasting time on Krumbiegel or Knaak, knowing Wasmer exists as a superior future prospect within a wnt already filed with WF options like Bühl - Brand - Anyomi - Huth - Waßmuth - Däbritz... is pointless.

And the same goes for Küver, who at 17 seems impressive, but this for a program who's already got seniors like Simon, Hendrich, Maier, Rauch, Rall available for MVT to waste.

I feel like Rall currently facing Hendrich, and Maier, is the FB who deserves the opportunity to validate future senior team opportunities. But at 17, it's obvious Küver's time will come...

 

... Not only did you ignore Kleinherne's actual improved level of performance as a CB this season, your also going to pretend she didn't showcase a clear POTM display during the cup final lol.

Oh, and this before you randomly decided to sneak in an entire new dimension of weird bias, somehow finding a way to select Däbritz as a LB in your potential national team; within what looks like a defense only Germany's biggest enemy's would love lol.

 

Again... none of this is a serious problem. Not if it's done by players who truly understand their defensive roles within attacking systems of play, but also understand HOW to time any offensive runs forward correctly within said systems.

I haven't even been paying much attention to the international scene, and I'm still 100% convinced any wnt's attempting to play like the US, where a rigid system of play, is counter balanced with high athleticism, aren't doing anything but aid the USwnt in their ability to continue winning trophies.

So maybe Spain's low end product, high tactical/technical skill set, removes Netherland's US-lite approach from Europe's summit; finally providing the USwnt with an actual European test again. But the idea female players will ever move faster than the ball, is still a pretty dumb narrative...

 

Freigang isn't really as good as you seem to think she is, and when did Schüller (a fw known for her direct speed) become slow, lol...? Not long ago, I'm sure you were pretty vocal about a "quicker" Schüller needing to start over a slow Popp, and now its' Schüller who's slow... all because..?

Däbritz as a WF scores 13 goals in 24 league games during her final season with Bayern, and you think she's a LB because coaches aren't using her within her best role anymore. And now you've decided Schüller a slow irrelevant forward, because Bayern doesn't use the same counter attacking style as a mid-table Essen...

Freigang has her qualities as a FW... but none of them are about speed, or being particularly impressive outside the penalty area. So maybe you should look at Frankfurt's coaches rather underwhelming display Vs Wolsburg. Where he uses a 4-4-2, without it having any clear objective in exploiting Wolfsburg's defensive weakness chasing long balls.

 

... Who honestly believes Lattwein makes anymore sense at CB, than Oberdorf ever did...? Replacing one positional error in the team, shouldn't instantly result in MVT just making another one lol. Lattwein is a CM, and in my opinion... on the little i've seen, she's a really underrated one too.

Plus FW's like Huth, Anyomi, Freigang, Schüller, and Starke, are all in this squad too. Creating a lot of hypocrisy here, as I saw a certain person questioning the potential negative effects of MVT wasting Brand in a FB role Vs Norway, only to now see the same person push the idea she should randomly start as a lone FW Vs France lol.