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    Germany FLIPPED THE SCRIPT! 🇩🇪 + Florian Wirtz or Jamal Musiala? | ESPN FC
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    Germany FLIPPED THE SCRIPT! 🇩🇪 + Florian Wirtz or Jamal Musiala? | ESPN FC



    Jurgen Klinsmann joins Dan Thomas, Ale Moreno, Shaka Hislop and Steve Nicol on ESPN FC to describe his outlook for Germany in UEFA Euro 2024 after defeating France and Netherlands in International Friendlies.

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    2. @CharlieVane21 on

      Friendlies mean nothing. I know the media must go off in the 24/7 digital world, but that doesn't mean friendlies have any meaning. I would also add that these friendlies mean even less given it is the business end of the domestic season.

    4. @kcirtap00 on

      Musiala, Wirtz > Bellingham.
      Even if the biased English media and 90% of fans who have probably never seen Wirtz play won't understand that.

    7. @sylla7863 on

      Tiktok compilation Gen Z and the knowledge of football competitions. In nowadays tournaments, there will be no teams that give you any space to play power football like the Netherlands and France did for Germany in meaningless friendlies. It's obvious that you need a constantly ploughing, solid, balanced midfield to get through a long tournament, as the Argentinians and Croats do, as seen in the past when they were in the last 4 of the World Cup. It's not enough to have magicians in offensively joyous squad, even a talented Brazil lost to Croatia or Germany had to feel it in the last group stages without Kroos or not, what good is it to have him alone if Wirtz and Musiala don't help him out, i.e. help out at the back in the permanent act and manner. They are completely the wrong type of players against physically brutal midfield teams. It's also noticeable in the last title-winning teams that their midfield is more remarkably for its defensive brilliance than its attacking finesse. The Croatian, French and the English even Spanish with trio Rodri, Koke and Gavi come closer to this ideal than the current offensively loaded Germany. On the contrary, the Germans will predictably struggle against primarly defensively-minded counter-attacking teams such as Hungary, Austria or Denmark, and may even fail.

    10. @A.Rostov on

      This two are very ,very young and talented players and looks like they found very , very good left back as the defence is still not a world class , but the one advantage what Germany have is their coach .I think he is the best coach of any European national team there and is as well easily top 5 – 6 coaches in all Europe.

    15. @ezraezra2928 on

      With some big teams struggling to win the friendlies, especially England with the best midfielder trios and France with the best player (Mbappe ghosted in both games), it's not really surprised that Germany will do the similar script when they performed better in the 2006 World Cup, also at the home soil, despite having a dreadful friendlies at that time. As long as Wirtz and Musiala didn't commit a serious injury before the final preparation, while rallying their respective clubs to the possible success in both domestic and Europe, that would be a good idea.

      Qatar in Asian Cup and Ivory Coast in AFCON did so while hosting the tournaments. Even the USMNT, who will stage the Copa America, had a chance to upset Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay in that tournament with fairly underrated squad thanks to Nations League victory! I think it will be a great year for the tournament hosts!

    16. @sivaramlord9151 on

      Huge Joke. Apart from Kroos and Gundogan, Germany has no world class players and Neuer is too old. The likes of Rashford, Saka, Rice, Bellingham and Phoden will put 4-5 goals past this German team. Most of them farmers league players,

    19. @christianwagenseil9621 on

      As much as I like Musiala and Wirtz…what Germany needs against very defensive teams is less dribbling and more high assists to players who are good headers like Füllkrug. Musiala also has to be more clinical in front of the goal.

    20. @thaRealShady1 on

      Musiala has the highest potential out of any young player right now. He is not far from being the leader Bellingham at this ylung age, but also is a more talented player without a doubt.

    25. @julian77Heh on

      thats right mursialas finishing and shot Power has to improve. i think wirtz is more complete. but foden from england is better than both inthink

    40. @mrherbal on

      It's not really about Wirtz and Musiala, as they have both been part of the team before. It's the midfield combination and the decision to move on from a lot of players that's making a difference. Nearly all players from Borussia Dortmund (BVB) are gone, and for good reasons. Additionally, Germany had an abundance of offensive central midfielders. However, playing two of them in central midfield leads to a lack of structure. Simply telling these players that one must adopt a defensive role wasn't effective. Consequently, Kimmich is no longer in midfield, Can and Goretzka are out, and Gündogan is barred from playing central midfield.

      Kroos, considered the best build-up player in the world, is back. Pairing him with a real defender like Andrich or Groß seems to be the solution.

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