The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

"Then let's do it immediately!": World champion Breitner gives a relentless analysis after the opening debacle

2022-11-24T07:26:33.771Z


"Then let's do it immediately!": World champion Breitner gives a relentless analysis after the opening debacle Created: 11/24/2022, 8:13 am By: Jose Carlos Menzel Lopez Symbolic picture: Paul Breitner at a performance. © IMAGO/Eibner press photo What failed the World Cup game against Japan on Wednesday? Former world champion and FCB legend Paul Breitner analyzes Germany's opening debacle. Qat


"Then let's do it immediately!": World champion Breitner gives a relentless analysis after the opening debacle

Created: 11/24/2022, 8:13 am

By: Jose Carlos Menzel Lopez

Symbolic picture: Paul Breitner at a performance.

© IMAGO/Eibner press photo

What failed the World Cup game against Japan on Wednesday?

Former world champion and FCB legend Paul Breitner analyzes Germany's opening debacle.

Qatar - The German team started the 2022 World Cup with a 1-2 draw against Japan, which already makes the second game against Spain on Sunday a crucial one in terms of survival in the group.

But how should the first appearance of the team of national coach Hansi Flick be assessed, far from the pure result?

What was it?

what went wrong

The

tz

asked a world champion about it!

With DFB and FCB legend Paul Breitner, who followed the DFB team's messed-up debut and took a

close look at it with

tz .

The interview with the 71-year-old final hero from 1974:

Mr. Breitner, how do you rate the first appearance of the German team?

 Breitner: Well, there's a saying that goes with this game that I've actually never liked.

The little ones keep getting bigger.

This is no coincidence, but has to do with the fact that the supposedly great, in this case the German eleven, fell back from a grade of 2 to a minus 5 within less than 60 minutes.

If this is the case, such a result and the end result that goes with it come about.

The Japanese played for a whole hour with the greatest respect for the German team, but as soon as they put their little finger down with careless positional mistakes in midfield and defense, it immediately went batsch.

How do you explain the two faces of the German team before and after the 60th minute?

 Breitner: Well, through the changes, the first two came in the 67th minute.

I just don't understand why so many head coaches, come hell or high water, have to make a change at some point in the game.

Especially when the gameplay fits.

I'm just tearing the game apart.

It is a mystery to me why Thomas Müller and Ilkay Gündogan were substituted, but there was no good reason for that.

Everything worked out.

Even when I was active, I didn't understand why people changed so often - simply for the sake of changing.

I don't mean to say that Hansi is such a coach, but I didn't understand the changes against Japan at all.

Former national soccer player Paul Breitner.

(Archive photo) © Bernd Thissen/dpa

World Cup 2022: Analysis of Germany's opening debacle - "The result has little to do with the goal chances"

But the German team also had enough chances to win the game in the first half.

Breitner: In my opinion, the lack of chances wasn't the main reason for this defeat, but rather that the team stopped playing from a certain point on like before.

From the 20th to the 60th minute she showed some great football, but then she incomprehensibly switched the lever to administration.

The result has little to do with the goal chances.

If I pull on the handbrake at a certain moment, I can't expect to walk past the World Cup as a winner and walk past it.

also read

In the last seconds of the World Cup broadcast: ZDF sends a strong signal against the DFB team

Anger analysis after World Cup disgrace: Schweinsteiger disassembles DFB-Elf after debacle

And now it's against the Spaniards...

Breitner: An all or nothing game!

Regardless of the result in Japan, I would have gone into the game against Spain with a stomach ache.

The fact that the German team has meanwhile marched and played forward could have led to it going under, but it was partly obvious: Antonio Rüdiger's left and right didn't fit at all, the appearance of Niklas Süle and Nico Schlotterbeck had anything to do with it nothing to do with World Cup top.

If there is a small silver lining on the horizon, then it was Rüdiger.

I was only partially convinced of him when Real Madrid signed him - but here you can see again what value can make.

The self-confidence that the transfer gave him made him 20 percent better.

He was the outstanding man on the German side today.

And may I tell you something else?

Please!

Breitner: At a World Cup, I've rarely seen a team of referees from an exotic country whistling so brilliantly for 90 minutes.

I would like to see them in the Bundesliga.

Interview: Jose Carlos Menzel Lopez

Source: merkur

All sports articles on 2022-11-24

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.