Italy held back and got their first shot on goal from Davide Frattesi. After that, she took over Squadra Azzurra the command in the game and attacked early in the build-up of the game – almost copying the German team. The reward came a hair’s breadth in the 35th minute as a striker Gianluca Scamacca a little lucky got a shot and put the ball on the left side of the post; Manuel Neuer in Germany’s goal had made himself long, but did not intervene.
Precision and coordination are missing
At this point it had been shown: Gnabry and Henrichs, who was set up as an offensive defender, harmonized better on the right side than the left side on which Leroy sane extremely little succeeded. Many players on both sides also had difficulties standing on the very heavily watered pitch.
However, it wasn’t them who had the greatest chance to score DFB-Team thwarted: In the case of a counterattack, there was a large majority of the German players, but the running paths and the precision of the play were not right. In addition, no decisiveness and a meanwhile sorted Italian defense resulted in Gnabry’s violent shot from about 18 meters, which, however, clearly went over the goal.
Italy strong after the break
After the change of sides, the home side set off a playful fireworks display in the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara. Scamacca’s header and Lorenzo Pellegrini’s shot just missed. The substitutions of Jonas Hofmann (for Henrichs) and Jamal Musiala (for Sané) disrupted the flow of play for the Italians. But when Flick made changes in his team again, the leadership of the team fell from coach Mancini.
Because Wilfried, who came on as a substitute for a short time gnoto easily passed Thilo Kehrer on the right side and fit in the middle with a lot of speed. There the central defenders Antonio Rüdiger and Niklas Süke had lost sight of Pellegrini, who was able to insert the ball from a short distance.
Compensation immediately
Hofmann recovered a ball lost by substitute Kai Havertz and hit the ball in front of the Squadra goal. There the ball bounced on Timo Werner’s arm, but not against the rules. Kimmich took measurements from twelve meters and hit the hosts’ goal on the left. Ilkay Gündogan (who came into play for Thomas Müller) could have increased a little later after preparatory work from Havertz and Musiala, but Donnarumma saved the midfielder’s shot and another one from Kimmich a little later. After that, both teams still played for the winning goal, but it didn’t want to fall anymore.
Three more endurance tests await the German team and the previously unbeaten national coach Flick within ten days. Already next Tuesday (07.06.22) the opponent for the German national team is England, who lost 0:1 against Hungary before the German team. Next Saturday the DFB-Elf will play against Hungary (11.06.22), on 14.6. then again against Italy (Mönchengladbach).