Germany's Quest to Not Embarrass Itself, the WC26+NL24-25 Thread

Amazing game, totally owned Slovakia.

I saw a lot of one touch passing, I thought the interplay between Woltemade and Wirtz was excellent. Almost a perfect game. Passes were crisp, sharp. Hardly a misplaced pass during the game. Can't say enough about how well the team played. The aggression to reclaim the ball, pressing, man marking were what I expected of a German team.

I thought Slovakia kind of packed it in in the second half. They seemed listless, just letting Germany do what they wanted.

I remember the first game of the group, about how the new Slovakian coach transformed the team and turned it around. Now this happened. I wonder what will happen if he loses the qualification playoffs.

 

No they were merciful, just like against Brazil in 2014. If they really wanted to, pavlovich wouldn't have been substituted and the subs would have been later. Also 0 minutes extra time? Even the ref new it was a mercy killing.

 

Great win. Congrats everyone!

 

There was no qualification for 1930, or in other words, everyone qualified and if you showed up you participated. Regardless it's a 100% qualification rate.

 

Pot 2 and Pot 3 have some good teams in it ….

 

So I guess although Baumann played well in the qualifiers - MTS will be back to take the spot?

 

Great win with great performamce. Could be the best match for Germany after Euro 24. Many positives to take from this match : Wotlemade is the undisputed striker that Germany missed since Klose retired and his position should be fixed in the WC. At just 23 yrs we solved the striker issue for the next 10 yrs. Sane proved everyone wrong with his performance yesterday and Nagelsmann won his bet on Sane as a super sub at least when Musiala is back. Pavlovic is getting more and more involved and Nagelsmann looks convinced that he should be starter in midfield. Kimmich showed everyone that he is very important player as a rb. Wirtz has nothing to proof, he is already the star of the team and watching the ball under his feet is a joy for every german fan. Schlotterbeck and Tah so far are our starting CBs for the WC. Raum did not have his best match yesterday but he is still our best lb with brown not far away but needs match experience. The best news yesterday was the substitution of Quedraogo that I was hoping Nagelsmann would make. Scoring such a beautiful goal in less than 2 min with your first touch shows the enormous talent he possesses and how lucky we are to have such talents after all these years struggling after Euro 2016. With Musiala and Havetz back , Germany would be the team to beat in WC.

 

What about the losers after these 2 matches ? I think adeyemi tops the list. He needs to start impressing for Germany to keep his place in the WC squad especially with Sane being trusted by Nagelsmann and with karl and El Mala who could be another two options as wingers.

 

yes Agree Rudiger to sub for Tah and Schlottie... but good to know we will have quite a few good CB for the the tourney ...

In midfield we currently have three sets of players

• The Old - Goretska, Sane, Havertz and Gnabry
• The young established players - Musiala, Wirtz, Pavlovic
• The new youngsters - ... there are many options .....
• JL has to find the correct mix.....for a total of 10/11 players

 

On another note Woltemade was also involved in three other goals ,
Sane second goal
Baku goal
And the new youngsters goal

also good to see his build up play

 

that is a list of 54 players - wow

I would love to see the core team and with the few extra places a few youngsters like a Karl or Bischoff or some one else. who ever prooves themselves in the next 6 months ...

 

If Karl's and Ouedraogo's development curve keeps rising through the season, then I can see a bolter Selection for either.

 

I think goretzka should not be in first group ( more into the 2nd). Groß, Andrich ,Amiri, and Füllkrug to the 3rd group. Quedraogo, El Mala, Karl and especially Bischof to the 2nd group