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

Argentina were just an arrogant team, LOL. Who recalls the "Ball Boy Muller", LMAO.

I mean crybaby Argentinian Draxler played a role in Muller getting suspended for Spain game. Thus missing our best player for SF.

 

the problem is that Low worshipped Spanish footy, LOL.

just look at how after WC10 he went full on Spanish footy mode with Germany.

majority of Germany's current issue legit go back to Low's transitioning Germany into Spain 2.0. which eventually led to Germany crashing.

instead of taking the interesting Spanish elements and fusing it with German footy he wanted a rehash.

 

haven't seen it in ages but didn't the ball go on Messi arm followed by hitting Muller's hand, LMAO.

in what world was that a yellow???

I also recall Messi bitching like crazy for Muller to be carded too, LULZ.

 

we've been unlucky with way too many suspensions that ruined tourneys.
-WC02=Ballack missing final. In the final one of our best players was missing. Its an interesting match. As missing Ballack, Kahn makes a rare mistake. More interesting is that Brazil's Ronaldo admitted that it was NOT an easy game to win and that Germany had chances to win like that Neuville hitting post. Game could have went Germany's way. Imagine Ballack wasn't suspended. Ballack's suspension did cause FIFA to change rule so that NO Player can miss WC final due to card accumulation.

haha, the whole world would have went BONKERS if Germany had won WC02. That team is almost always considered one of the worst teams to make WC final too.

-WC06=Dumbass Argentina and their BS of attacking our players for being piss poor sore losers got Frings suspended post match in that brawl. Frings missed SF vs Italy, crucial miss as he was important for us in M. Frings always gave me Khedira vibes, in that important player that you only notice his importance when he's missing, LOL.

-WC10=Dumbass Argentina again and their bitching got Muller suspended for SF vs Spain.

concerning Spain, one can say they themselves got lucky to get out of GS at WC10, LOL. They really should have been eliminated in GS. Had that happened would have been hilarious. I do recall refs making BS calls in their favor in GS too.


the Germany 2002-2016 is some of the unluckiest side ever, tbh. How many tourneys would we have won if things aligned better??? Instead of 1 trophy....we could have won like MIN 3. Instead of this Spanish Golden Gen BS, Germany could have been the one making history.

 

funny part is how they are declared best team ever when they just got super lucky.
-EC08=needed a PK shootout just to beat Italy. In final vs Germany, a dumb misunderstanding between Lahm and Lehmann allowed Torres to score winner, super lucky on their part.
-WC10=should 100% have been eliminated in GS, they got saved by ref
-EC12=dispatched Portugal to PK shootout

3/3 could easily have been no trophy. I dont buy the "best team of all Time" if you need PK shootouts to dispatch teams.

they are the MOST lucky team in history. And yeah the tiki taka BS was such garbage footy.

 

I think its more that Low has no real plan Bs. Germany under him the key to winning, was never go down first, LOL.

Under Low, Germany rarely came back from matches.

take WC14 for example, Argentina had chances to score, had they done so Germany would likely have lost the match. But once we scored it sealed the deal.

on that front, it does look better under Nagelsmann for example.

 

Julian Nagelsmann on...
...the absences of Nico Schlotterbeck and Joshua Kimmich: Now other players have the chance to prove themselves. Ridle Baku will replace Kimmich. He's done a fantastic job in the training sessions so far and is a regular starter at RB Leipzig. We haven't decided who will replace Schlotterbeck yet. But with Malick Thiaw and Waldemar Anton, we have good options who can fill in well, even if they are a bit different. Hopefully, both of them will be available again on Monday.

...the captaincy question: Jonathan Tah will replace Joshua Kimmich as captain. Before the Nations League, we established a team council. Jonathan is the one of them who plays, and he deserves it based on his performances. He's established himself at FC Bayern and is having an outstanding season. He's earned it and will wear the armband. I don't even know if he knows yet, but now he does (laughs).

...the development of Nick Woltemade: That's been a very positive development. Moving to another country with a different style of football is never easy. He's already scored a few goals, feels comfortable in the city, and I think the overall situation feels great for both him and us. He's an excellent player who quickly went from the U21 European Championship final to a regular starter for us. He's in high demand right now because he's doing so well and has already scored. He's welcome to keep it up tomorrow and Monday (laughs). I'm very happy with him.

... Said El Mala and Assan Ouedraogo: Neither of them will be in the starting eleven. From the scouting department, we know their strengths and weaknesses. But for me, it's also important to observe them in training and see how they interact within the team and the group. When Assan arrived, Said welcomed him and showed him around. That's the kind of thing I want to see: how the players interact with each other. Both of them are giving it their all in training and making a good impression.

...Joshua Kimmich, who traveled to Luxembourg despite his injury: Of course, he's missed on the pitch, but he's still there. He has the ability to influence the game even from the bench. Hopefully, he'll be fit on Monday, but he'll also be important for us tomorrow.

...Leroy Sané: When we nominated him, very few people were positive. I spoke with Leroy to make it clear to him that he's under pressure. I know what he's capable of, but he has to prove to everyone who's critical of him that he's a good footballer. It's a fact that he doesn't have countless chances anymore. But he can also handle pressure.

...tomorrow's opponent, Luxembourg: After the early red card, they dropped back very quickly in the first leg. I suspect they'll want to play more offensively tomorrow. I don't expect them to just sit back. We'll see a bit more attacking play from the Luxembourg team. Nevertheless, I'll try to win the game tomorrow with my team.

 

we should have won EC16 tbh, biggest blunder of them all.

with no Gomez in that match as he got injured vs Italy, we had nobody who could finish and thus wasted the easiest tourney for Germany to bag. France was a weak team at EC16 and weren't convincing.

Low also screwed us over with his blacklisting of every CF minus Gomez that we had 0 backup.

 

I mean most of his blacklisting was nonsensical shiiiite anyways.
-Kiessling=the impression, I get from the Kiessling was that Low never rated him whatsoever. He had a very very very low opinion about him. Also that he called him up as basically eh, we need more options but over time would rather call up anyone else over him. I 100% believe that Kiessling fits the Low "World Class CF or bust" mentality that DFB had for like ages.
-Kruse=what was it? He ate too much nutella and then got into media negativity for forgetting poker winnings in a taxi......so Low axed him perm.....WTF does that have to do with anything??? LMAO. Low is a freak, he has this mentality that players are "role models to society" so that if they have negativity in media=axing.
-Kuranyi=got dumped into the stadium with some other players aka was not on bench.....he was like eh I'm outta here so bailed and didn't return to hotel. Got axed perm by Low, made him go BONKERS, LULZ.
-Stindl=I felt even though he was very very good in NT and fit like a glove, Low was never too high on him and it didn't take much for him to leave him out perm and move on. Honestly Stindl with Low reminds me of Fullkrug and Nagelsmann, in terms of a player who needs to do excess just to get chance as the coach would not call him up otherwise.
-Cacau=moved on very quickly from him
-Petersen, Uth, Helmes, Wagner, etc=axed them all very quickly. Wagner for example got SUPER pissed with Low from what I recall.


Low's blacklisting are mix of
-doesn't rate player whatsoever and when he called them up was like what the heck type of thing. He LEGIT goes would rather have no CFs than call them up, LMAO.
-pissed him off sooooo badly that he axed them perm.


from what we've seen, Low was
-very very very ruthless with CFs and numerous cases of him heading butts with them. Not sure why he never got along with players in that position. For some reason, its the 1 position where so many issues arose behind the scenes.
-only CFs that he was very high on were Klose, Gomez, and if one sees Podolski as W/CF as he did play some NT tourneys at CF as the only ones that got a pass from him.
-had that obsession with World Class or Elite CFs, otherwise the axe is coming.


its crazy to think that for a LONG TIME, our so called CF issues were all self-made issues, LULZ. Issues that arose by coach reducing the pool of option close to 0 due to BS.

even Flick continued with the close to 0 pool of CFs too.

its only Nagelsmann that brought back a real CF pool. If you accept the non-world class and Elite options than the pool is more acceptable one, LOL.

like too much time refusing to use what one has, which is dumb as frick.