Germany - South Korea I-- 27 June --I 3rd Group Game

good grief what a pant wetter

 

Cleaned up

 

So yesterday the times splash on divided squad, anger over DFBs penny pinching with the world cup base etc - but behind paywall

Has any german insider article dropped yet?

 

Honigstein seems to be presenting a more nuanced view of Germany crashing out

There isn't going to be any smoking gun - rather a badly mismanaged campaign

I like what Honigsteins said in his YouTube piece also - that Low probably realised alles ist schiefgelaufen but it was too late by spring 2018 to fix it so he hoped the big names could deliver

In Honigstein's view he ran a more intelligent experiment with his Confeds Cup tilt where lots of players got a chance but then he never managed to combine this into a new look team, apart from Draxler who he seemed to be way too invested in

Other issues appear to be a lack of credible social leaders in the squad. Merte, Schweini and Poldi gone. Khedira with no cred after playing so badly. Mueller ditto. Neuer not really a leader etc

But no serious rift in the squad - more a breakdown in communications and general confusion

On Germany's broken squad dynamics at the World Cup. https://t.co/eU1uWe0N9U

— Raphael Honigstein💙 (@honigstein) June 28, 2018

 

Interesting german had the most attacks in the group stage and Ozil + Kimmich tied for the most key passes of any player

Yet no german forward scored a goal.

 

i forgot Reus scored one goal

Interesting the only goal from open play comes from a Werner 1:1 take on

 

There is nothing new there - we knew all this.

One would have thought if Bild's "bling bling" theory was correct, that this would have all come pouring out - but the stories we are hearing a quite a bit different to that

Germany were awful well before the Erdogan scandal

 

Basically he said the topic hung around unsettlng things.

Khedira - who is considered a confidant of Özil and Gündogan - has now made it clear that the issue burdened the team - but did not directly criticize the people responsible: "But I'm not a crisis manager who says how to deal with it. They didn't settle the topic down, but I do not want to accept that as an excuse for leaving. "