Maybe. Like all of his teammates he seemed to be thinking too much. He was thinking quicker than his own arms could react to it.
I think our attacking 3 were fine tbh, we created plenty of chances and half chances.. My concern was the lack of anything from the midfield. Also some weak links in the back four. Swap out howedes and swap out khedira and I am happy. Because I knlw low won't make drastic changes, so I am stating the most realistic change.
Excellent point. It was Höwedes after all with the assist to Klose if you will. Just gives us another option in attack. One we didn't have before. There's really a feeling goals can come from multiple outlets now.
i went to local german bar in new york. and the crowd here was awesome. they really love their team and their bier. i had a chance to try out radeberger. and it was great. two sausages boiled in water with rye bread and german mustard was good food too. met nice friend from hamburg, glad to see these people's reaction on camera.
Ghana played a full gegen press until 75mins Amazing physical beasting of the game. Khedira was really not in peak physical shape for this and was routinely bested in midfield Things look better later with extra passing and movement via Schweini The front 3 created a huge amount of chances but there was great defending at times. Entertaining game which Germany should really have won in the last 10 mins
He and Kroos really struggled with that level of physicality Personally I though Germany were a bit naive to try to go toe to toe in midfield Ghana came very high up the pitch in possession - Germany might have better focussed on trying to create transitions in the low block rather than in central midfield.
I personally feel Khedira, Ozil, and Boateng should be kicked off the team for not singing the national anthem with the rest of their teammates. The Italians and Spaniards always sing heartily -- every single one of them.
Kroos struggled in that game? oh boy, here we go.. where is that dude that said kroos doesnt get criticism ?
no one gives a shit about the NT anthem ... what the hell does that have to do with anything? Spain sang heartily and we all saw what happened to them
Not to forget the German NT has a tradition of players not singing at all until the early 90ies. And even after that not wholeheartedly like Buffon or others.
The trouble is that defence coughed up 2 goals As predicted the issue is not the attack but the brittle defending which concedes too many soft goals.
Maybe the game looked different in America but FWIW I watched with a large group of Germans and no one thought he played well. Opinions in southern germany may vary. He isn't used to being physically bossed like that, though he coped better than Khedira who lacks the technical quality for these kind of games. Overall it was all just a bit naive. Getting sucked into a physical battle instead of letting the ball do the work. But Kroos is only 24 so you would not expect him to dominate games in that way just yet. Personally I think he is playing too deep to be very effective
yeah the brodcast was a bit sluggish here in the US . I heard everything is better in Germany and europe
As the players said after the game: the Ghanians did well interfering the buildup between all them three: Kroos, Khedira and Lahm. Kroos looked best of them, Lahm played the worst game since 2008 and Khedira lost every ball. So still, at a time when our whole midfield and fullbacks performed badly, we got the draw. After leading 1:0. After getting 2014 World Cup'd to a 1:2. This physical battle will do wonders for games to come.
Have these guys ever played a game where the other team adopts gegen pressing until the last 15 mins? Kroos, Khedira and Lahm looked quite uncomfortable against such a relentless high press. The thing is though - you normally ride it out for 25, 45 or maybe 60 mins at the outside (e.g. Barca) Ghana did not drop into a medium block until 75 mins when they seemed done in and quite demoralised about the equaliser That is an insane physical output. Yet nevertheless Ghana did fall off badly in central midfield when Germany starter to pour through - really the win was there for the taking if not for some bad missed in the last 10-15 mins Amazing stuff though. On the other side of the coin - Ghana routinely had 3 attackers on the last shoulder waiting for the cross - so the big backline helped with that - save for the disaster on the first goal And that really says it all. A bad blunder lets Ghana in to the game. That really is germany's weakness
It really was amazing how high up the pitch they played both with and without possession. Germany struggled to deal with that due to the difficulty in playing longer out balls. It really wasn't until Schweinsteiger came on that you saw more intelligent midfield play to work the ball around the make the defenders run