2-1: Kroos’ Germany continue on the recovery path

Germany lost this Tuesday Netherlands 2-1, achieving their second consecutive victory after the return of Toni Kroos and, at least for now, seems to have emerged from the crisis it had in November with two disappointing defeats

The orange team took an early lead, in the 4th minute, until Joey Veermann in a play that started with a mistake by Maximilian Mittelstädt. The German left back produced an inaccurate backwards pass to find Jonathan Tah and Memphis Depay stole the ball to reach the area and cross for Veermann to score with a volley.

The goal against, after the euphoria generated by the victory over France, led to fears that Germany The insecurity that he had in the previous games fell again but nothing happened but the Mannschaft controlled the match and found the equalizer early, in the 11th minute.

Property Mittelstädt He turned the page on his mistake by scoring the tying goal with a powerful shot from outside the area after Jamal’s pass Musiala after a corner kick is taken Toni Kroos.

Germany, again included Ter Stegen, Gündogan, Kroos and Rüdiger as starters, had a lot of possession throughout the first half and also had the ball in the opposite half. however, Netherlands the center was able to be closed so there were few arrivals. The best came in the 18th minute when Ilkay Güngogan He failed to finish inside the area after a good pass from Musiala.

The Dutch bet mainly on long balls from the back and they had a good arrival just moments later Donnyel Malen He beat the back of the German defense but found no receiver for his centre.

In the second part Netherlands He showed clear progress and took control of the game from the Germans, taking the ball and creating arrivals.

The first warning was a powerful volley from Malen in the 50th minute that went too central and Marc André Ter Stegen controlled it with no problem. In ’58 and ’61 Reimders and Depay They had great chances through Malen’s centre.

Germany He only showed signs of life again in the opposing area in the 65th minute with a shot from Mittelstädt which Verbruggen deflected with a corner kick.

Mitelstädt’s shooting was the beginning of a new phase of the match where Germany was again the most active team and where Verbruggen He was close to being the figure of the match with excellent interventions against shots by Musiala in the 76th and Müller in the 82nd.

However, the Dutch goalkeeper could not do anything about a shot, using his shoulder, from Niklas Fullkrug in a corner kick taken by Cross. Verbruggen reached for the ball but it crossed the goal line.