“What a pity! We’re out,” reads the huge headline of tabloid Bild, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Germany, which best summarizes the general feeling in this country after the elimination of the World Cup in the group stage despite a 4- against- 1 win 2 in the last game against Costa Rica. In his comments, he recalls, like the rest of the German press, that “Germany failed to reach the KO stage of the World Cup for the second time in a row” and repeats the failure of the previous tournament in Moscow. “The bitter balance: an embarrassing defeat against Japan, a strong draw against Spain and a thrilling win against Costa Rica,” says Bild, for whom “this is downright ridiculous”.
He adds that “after Russia 2018 we don’t think there could be anything worse”, but he points out that at Euro 2021 we “also had to set the sails prematurely in the round of 16″ after the 0-2 defeat to England. “Three consecutive tournaments in which we achieved nothing. The football world trembled for us. They praised us as the ‘Mannschaft’ (team) of tournaments. Now Germany is just a football dwarf,” the newspaper said.
“A few millimeters and, despite everything, miles away from the world leadership,” headlines Der Spiegel, for whom “eventually a controversial goal from the Japanese doomed the German federation team” and notes that “As the pitch manager of the Doha stadium had drawn a finer line around the field, we would now celebrate the resurrection of our national team He also recalls that Tanaka “only plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the German second division, but he blasted his blue samurai to a sensational victory against Spain , while also kicking Germany out of the tournament.”
And when it comes to analyzing the game of the German team, he points out that «in the second half of the match against the Ticos, signs of weakness appeared that were already seen in the defeat against Japan. As at the beginning of the tournament, the German eleven lost all control of the game with the departure of Gündogan, as the line of four together with Antonio Rüdiger missed at least one point of support and if we judge the team in retrospect, we must admit He was immature and vulnerable.”
The Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) headlines “Down the German team: the next collapse” and highlights that “Germany has suffered a brutal self-deception at the World Cup in Qatar”, speaks of the “third consecutive debacle in the third major tournament” and states that “The performance against Costa Rica was perhaps the weakest and most shocking by a German team in decades in a major tournament over the course of an hour.” The FAZ criticizes that “the national team’s line-up was as indecisive as his team’s performance.
“Flick initially only relied on the Bayern players and placed Kimmich as a defender on the right side, but nothing worked well, on the contrary, also because Müller did not lead the attack, but was a disappointment,” the Frankfurt newspaper added. And he criticizes that “strikers who score goals like Havertz and Füllkrug stayed on the bench for so long, where they shouldn’t have been.” He emphasizes that both managed to turn the score around, but too late and concludes that “the three games show the complete German failure in Qatar, for which the national coach is partly responsible. It has been the next collapse ».
Finally, the conservative “Die Welt” headlines “It’s over in the previous phase: the German debacle is a fact”, notes that the premature elimination in Qatar “is a disgrace” and affirms that “German football has reached its nadir » . The Berlin newspaper assures that as a result of Qatar’s failure “many things have to change in the German Football Association and the Bundesliga. Courageous decisions and personal changes are needed, including from senior federal officials.
When it comes to giving notes to the players of the German team, Die Welt suspends the majority, from Kimmich to Süle, through Rüdiger, Raum, Goretzka, Klostermann, Sané and even the veteran Thomas Müller. The goalkeeper Neuer, the striker Gnabry and the game organizer Gündogan approve crabs. The only standout is for Füllkrug, who again acted as a wild card and condemned the game against Costa Rica in favor of Germany, but notes that the German defense against Costa Rica “wrecked” and in attack the forwards “lost opportunities in a series”.
Source: La Verdad
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