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After the World Cup, Schweinsteiger is shocked and gives a devastating verdict on the DFB team

2022-12-02T04:37:55.496Z


After the World Cup, Schweinsteiger is shocked and gives a devastating verdict on the DFB team Created: 2022-12-02 05:29 By: Patrick Mayer Critical ARD expert: Bastian Schweinsteiger after Germany's exit from the World Cup in conversation with moderator Esther Sedlaczek. © screenshot ARD Germany is out at the 2022 World Cup. ARD expert Bastian Schweinsteiger ruthlessly analyzes the DFB team af


After the World Cup, Schweinsteiger is shocked and gives a devastating verdict on the DFB team

Created: 2022-12-02 05:29

By: Patrick Mayer

Critical ARD expert: Bastian Schweinsteiger after Germany's exit from the World Cup in conversation with moderator Esther Sedlaczek.

© screenshot ARD

Germany is out at the 2022 World Cup. ARD expert Bastian Schweinsteiger ruthlessly analyzes the DFB team afterwards.

The world champion denies the quality of individual players.

Munich/al-Chaur – Devastating criticism from the world champion: After the German national team left the 2022 World Cup early on, Bastian Schweinsteiger literally dismantled the DFB team and clearly denied the quality of the selection of national coach Hansi Flick.

Germany is eliminated from the 2022 World Cup: devastating criticism from Bastian Schweinsteiger

"I'm really disappointed and shocked how it went today.

Also the game itself.

Of course we had a lot of chances to score.

But: how it went, how the game went: very restless, everything.

That you are dependent on other teams," said the 38-year-old from Upper Bavaria late Thursday evening on ARD: "The appearance of the national team is not enough and that's not enough and that's why we were eliminated."

Germany had previously won 4-2 (1-0) against Costa Rica, but because Japan defeated their favorite Spain 2-1 (0-1) in the parallel game, their own victory was ultimately not enough.

The DFB team was only third in the group - as in 2018, it's over after the preliminary round.

The World Cup round of 16 was missed miserably.

The German Football Association (DFB) had declared its team as one of the favorites ahead of the World Cup in Qatar (November 20 to December 18).

In the video: World Cup disaster – DFB team eliminated in Qatar despite beating Costa Rica

Schweinsteiger analyzed relentlessly on ARD: "From the 35th minute, when we gave up the great opportunity through Fuller and when Manuel Neuer made a great save, the game changed immediately.

And the Costa Ricans believed that they had a chance to beat Germany here," explained the former FC Bayern player: "It was similar to the one against Japan (

1-2, ed

.).

That we don't have the peace and quiet to just check the game.

And don't give the opponent this belief.

I'm disappointed in that.

We didn't have that before.

We didn't let the opponent get into the game anymore."

Bastian Schweinsteiger: ARD expert dismantles the DFB team after the World Cup

The fundamental problem is “that we often invite the opponent.

He takes advantage of that, scores the goals and gets us into trouble," said Schweinsteiger.

German football must get back to the point where “we train leaders who control these games when things get difficult or the score is 0-0”.

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The former DFB captain was particularly harsh on some positions.

"When we talk about individual positions: the full-backs, the center forwards - we have a big gap there," he said and didn't mean goalscorer Niclas "Lücke" Füllkrug.

Are we a tournament team?

No, we are not at all

ARD expert Bastian Schweinsteiger

Even more: moderator Esther Sedlaczek wanted to know from the long-time Munich player whether individual players didn't have the quality to play a better role in such a tournament.

"Yes, one hundred percent!

We only have one player on the defensive who plays at a high level: that's Toni Rüdiger (

Real Madrid, ed.

).

The others, that's normal Bundesliga level," said Schweinsteiger, probably referring to the two Dortmund players Niklas Süle and Nico Schlotterbeck.

Bastian Schweinsteiger: ARD expert harshly criticizes the German defense after the World Cup

"We have to get back to putting up a decent defense," he said: "Are we a tournament team?

No, we are not at all.

You need a good defence, you need stability in the team and that starts at the back.

You have to manage to take teams out of the game.

You were 1-0 up twice and managed to turn the game around again.

These things can't happen.” Looking at the defense, he asked, “Where's that fire?

This greed?

That it sometimes rattles and you counteract it.

No, we stand away.”

Especially against teams like Japan and Costa Rica, Schweinsteiger added, he expects “that we as the German national team have the game under control.

Of course there may be times when the opponent comes.

But there must be no break."

(pm)

Source: merkur

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