🗣️ Kevin Schade im Sky-IV über Flick: „Er hat mich zum Wechsel beglückwünscht und gesagt, dass ich weiter Gas geben soll.“ @DFB_Team: „Ein Kindheitstraum! Meine Prio liegt jetzt auf Brentford. Aber es wäre ein Traum. Hoffentlich nimmt er (Flick) mich mal mit.“@SkySportDE 🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/bhNrcpeHEF— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) January 31, 2023 Kevin Schade in Sky-IV about Flick: "He congratulated me on the move and said that I should keep pushing." @DFB_Team : "A childhood dream! My priority is now on Brentford. But it would be a dream. Hopefully he (Flick) will take me with him."
New DFB director Rudi Völler: "Apart from Messi who is of course outstanding, nobody can tell me that Argentina are better than us. But they defended with incredible passion. They defended in an impressive way and that's what made them world champions" [@KSTA] pic.twitter.com/hcKuaMUQ6M— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) February 1, 2023 Völler: "The national team is the most important team we have. The players have to act in every friendly game as if it were a qualifier. Of course, the clubs have other interests. I know that because I come from club football. But we have to find solutions if there are any issues— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) February 1, 2023
Funnily enough seems they are struggling to produce elite CB’s or 9’s as well. I’m happy with a lot of what Völler is saying but of course talk is cheap, we need to see results from the DFB. I also would like to see DM and RB mentioned as well, again these seem like areas where we’ve struggled to produce enough talents for a while. Tbh I still don’t really understand why certain important basics training needed for specialised positions such as CB or CF were ever neglected in the first place.
Rudi voller is the man of the People. He understands what it means to represent the National team in the era when we were the juggernaut of world football.
Absolutely agree, I believe he understands the problem. What he can do about it, and get Flick to fall in line, is another matter.
"win tackles" Sounds absurd. I worry this is another old man living in the past. The thing he did point out correctly is Argentina don't have better players. However the Messi thing is under-appreciated because he enables you to score goals without committing players forward. In international football, with less time for drilling etc, it helps to have any easy gameplan
For me hes spot on. The basic principles that made Germany a power house in world football have been forgotten. Organisation Art of defending Characters Team ethics. We can instil all these with the technical side of the game then we are somewhere close to the 2014 team which had it all.
1 - Among goalkeepers from Europe's big five leagues, Marc-André ter Stegen tops the following rankings in 2022-23 (5+ games):🥇Best save percentage (85%)🥇Most clean sheets (13)🥇Fewest goals conceded per game (0.35) Invincible. pic.twitter.com/f0J2tMu8J5— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) January 27, 2023 13 - Werder Bremen's Niclas Füllkrug scored a brace in the 2-1 win against VfL Wolfsburg marking his 12th and 13th goal of the Bundesliga season. The last Bremen player to score more goals after 18 matchdays of a BL season was Miroslav Klose in 2005-06 (16). Goalgetter. #SVWWOB pic.twitter.com/r3b8Jh5y6Y— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) January 28, 2023 50 – Julian Brandt has collected his 50th assist in the #Bundesliga today, since det. data collection 2004-05 only Thomas Müller (25 years 3 months 6 days) and Marco Reus (26y 8m 13d) were younger than Brandt (26y 8m 27d), when they reached that mark. Milestone. #B04BVB pic.twitter.com/jr3TzN2zLe— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) January 29, 2023 16 - Julian Chabot made 16 clearances against FC Schalke 04, a #Bundesliga record for this season by a player in a single match and the highest number of clearances by a player from 1. FC Köln since Dominic Maroh in April 2018 against SC Freiburg (18). Chapeau. pic.twitter.com/U7MiMf6kWe— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) January 30, 2023 53 – Thomas Müller has won a match in the DFB-Pokal the 53rd time in his career, now the outright most match wins of any player in the competition's history. Winner. #M05FCB @esmuellert_ https://t.co/qorikWB1em— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) February 1, 2023
Spain are struggling to produce CFs 100%. Not just that but even in younger age groups, CFs wise it really bodes down to just a few names. if those don't pan out could be years before we see a Spanish CF of any relevance. Less we forget when they poached a Brazilian CF, LOL. Their version of Cacau. I think for us, CF is fine, we have slowly growing pool of CF options. And a lot of interesting/promising options for future too. and even DM is fine. Issue with DM is more that Flick only interested in 3 Ms and just call up too many attackers. And from those 3 none are DMs. RB is real problem position from outfield. Although I feel like its fine with Klostermann, Henrichs, Baku it should be fine. None are world class/Elite but you don't need that type for every position.
Yep - but in the end there are always a number of teams who could win, but crash out due to tactical incoherence, bad luck, squad dynamics, internal feuding etc etc. Argentina only scraped past Holland for example '14 was a successful campaign because they learned so much from their mistakes in '12 I think don't think what Voller is talking about matters much for '24, except they need to have a much tighter team culture. The DfB is truly to blame for wasting '21 on Loew - Flick has not had long with the team - but he needs to use the next year and half wisely
-Trapp extends ✍️🙌 Kevin Trapp verlängert vorzeitig bei Eintracht Frankfurt!Der Torhüter bekennt sich langfristig zur Eintracht und bleibt dem Verein bis mindestens 2026 erhalten.#SGE | #Trapp2026— Eintracht Frankfurt (@Eintracht) February 3, 2023 -Nmecha is back Lukas Nmecha is available again for VfL Wolfsburg with immediate effect. The attacker has fully recovered from the torn patella tendon that threw him off track for almost three months and, according to Niko Kovač, has been part of team training since Wednesday. As a result, there are no more losses for Wolfsburg to complain about. It remains to be seen whether Nmecha will be enough for a squad place. The long break could mean some start-up time in the team. In addition, the offensive is broad. “Today's session wasn't that intense. I like him at the moment and he looks motivated," explained Kovač. "Now we have to look, because we already have an oversupply of strikers. If one more comes now, then there will be even more.” About two weeks ago, the trainer let it be known that Nmecha should be integrated into the squad and the team "step by step". After so few training sessions, it smells more like he's not in the squad against FC Bayern Munich https://www.ligainsider.de/lukas-nm...-alle-mann-an-bord-beim-vfl-wolfsburg-333311/
I've been lamenting for over a decade the loss of Germany's ironclad fighting mentality which was a trademark of previous generations. Recent generations, particularly during the Löw era, fold at the slightest adversity.
I agree, but for the vast majority of our history at WC’s we have always been tough to beat, and very rarely gone out before the QF. These last few tournaments were down to poor tactics especially from Low, however there were also weak spots both in mentality and in determination to stop opponents by whatever means necessary. We are never able to neutralise matches once in front. This should always be the basis of our identity, it doesn’t have to always be beautiful football but it does need to be tough to play us for every opponent. Currently we are set up perfectly for counter attacking sides to exploit, imo we would almost certainly have lost to Morocco if we’d managed to scrape through the group. Defending well, keeping clean sheets, winning the majority of 50/50 challenges, improving our counters and efficiency in attack with fewer players committing forwards should all be priorities, if that means winning ugly a lot so be it. We need more Effenberg types.
Our old trademark characteristics are definitely missing. We told like a pack of cards in the slightest bit of pressure applied.
Berisha scores his 6th of season and 1-0 lead vs Bayer Leverkusen. What bad defending, LMAO https://streamin.me/v/73494623 Berisha has now scored vs Bayer, Bayern (he always performs vs Bayern even in CL when he was RB Salzburg), Frankfurt, Leipzig, Gladbach, Freiburg would be surprising if no call up in March by Flick.
Kai Havertz 1st half highlights pic.twitter.com/5DgbrlPRAs— Fledgling (@FPLFledgling) February 3, 2023
6 - Mergim Berisha has been involved in each of FC Augsburg's last six home goals in the Bundesliga (4 goals, 2 assists), the longest run of goal involvements by an Augsburg player on home soil in the Bundesliga. Record. #FCAB04 pic.twitter.com/AlkqojZRN8— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) February 3, 2023 219 – Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Eintracht Frankfurt’s Kevin #Trapp has made 219 saves in all competitions, no keeper has made more saves for a team from the Bundesliga during that period. Dependable. pic.twitter.com/MTxnOD4SaD— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) February 3, 2023