5-2: Germany humiliates Italy by historic hand

Germany, Spain’s rival in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, has yet to win the current edition of the Nations League but has now made its debut by endorsing an embarrassing 5-2 win over Italy at Borussia-Park in Mönchengladbach . It was the biggest win for the ‘Mannschaft’ against the ‘azzurra’ in 37 clashes between these two European football powers and the equivalent of another 5-2 in 1939.

After missing the second consecutive World Cup, Italy’s trial seemed endless and, just 11 months after winning the European Championship, they scored five goals in a game for the first time since they lost the first, 6-1. Yugoslavia in 1957.

A relentless defeat resulted in him losing the Nations League Group 3 lead for the benefit of Hungary, giving England another historic defeat (0-4). Germany remain undefeated (13 games) since Hansi Flick arrived and moved from third to second place one point behind the Magyars, while Italy remain two points behind the leaders.

First big win

Germany, who tied on a goal against Italy, England and Hungary, dominated this great European classic from start to finish and didn’t take long to open the scoring just seconds after Manuel Neuer avoided 0-1 through of deflecting with a save. a volley from Giacomo Raspadori.

Italy had the option to change the script of the game there, but Germany didn’t give it any more because in the 10th minute they took advantage of a defensive mistake to score 1-0. The play was born from a long ball to Timo Werner, who opened on the left for David Raum to cross into the middle of the area. Joshua Kimmich, coming from behind, received absolutely no mark and, despite not shooting in the area, his shot went between Gianluigi Donnarumma’s legs.

Germany, absolute dominator

In their favor of the score, Germany controlled the game at will, replacing long short possession with a quick long run that allowed them to combine with speed.

Donarrumma avoided a 2-0 draw by dismissing a cross from Jonas Hofmann (34 ‘), another cross from Leroy Sané (40’) and a third by Weerner (41 ‘), but at the time of injury in the first half he took Alessandro Bastoni. an unnecessary penalty by pushing Hofmann and Ilkay Gündogan converted it in the middle (45+4 ‘).

Müller and a double from Werner

Revised Italy seem determined to change their image after the break. Roberto Mancini brought in Giorgio Scalvini and Gianluca Caprari instead of Raspadori and Matteo Politano. Bryan Cristante made it 2-1 with the ball falling to him but his shot widened slightly (46 ‘).

It was a mirage as it went 3-0 on a defensive rebound that Thomas Müller took advantage of. His shot was centered but he caught Donnarumma and reached the net (51 ‘).

The game was doomed but Serge Gnabry’s entry during playing time gave Germany more fuel.

In the 68th minute, Thomas Müller put up a great bounce pass to Gnabry himself, who played first from the right of the area so Werner only had to push the ball (68 ‘).

The next minute Donnarumma became arrogant and, under Werner’s pressure, the ball was mishandled and Gnabry took advantage of the gift to assist, leaving only Werne himself, who beat the PSG goalkeeper.

Gnonto, Italy’s youngest goalcorer

Italy saved the honor with two goals in the final minutes. First, the very young Wilfried Gnonto made his debut as a scorer when he finished with an empty goal after neutralizing a shot by Federico Dimarco at short range (79 ‘).

So Gnonto became, at 18 years and 222 days, the youngest player to score a goal for the Italian national team, surpassing Bruno Nicolè, who held the record since 1958 at 18 years and 259 days.

At stoppage time, Bastoni made it 5-2 by heading in a corner kick taken by Dimarco.