After the dramatic from the German handball player in the World Cup quarter-finals, the disappointment is huge. But what learn the team and association from it? The processing must not stop at the national coach either.
Of course, the number of the battered and injured players was large, before and during the World Cup. Of course, the top of the world in handball is incredibly close together: even in top form, reaching the semi -final is not a self -employee. Every little mistake, every questionable referee whistle, every minimal fluctuation in shape can decide on the well-being and woe at this level. So the German national team did not have to play extremely bad to ultimately miss the big goal of the semi -finals.
He is responsible for organizing the team. Honestly, the German team against Portugal – but also in the games before – seemed tactically remarkably limited, static and without ideas, especially in attack. Again and again playmaker Juri Knorr started moving with a great start. If he found no gap, he played to the left to Julian Köster. If the tree -long half -left was not an option, the almost schematically fit into the right back room with Renārs Uščins. Uščins then forced a throw, mostly without success (33 percent hit rate against Portugal), or he played back to Knorr. And off we went from the front.
Almost nothing went about the outer players. The Portuguese could conveniently condense in the middle and thereby take the German circuit runner Johannes Golla out of the game by sheer. Three German players desperately sought a gap between six Portuguese defenseers over long phases of the game. They found few. Gislason will have recognized the problem. He did not deliver solutions. He stayed with his direction of march.
In addition, the Portuguese played in other personnel in defense than in attack. Three players ran to the bank after each goal, clapped their interchangeable players, who then sprinted back and reorganized. The straight away to the gate was actually always free for German counterattacks. Alone: Gislason’s team did not start. The German players kept dismissed to trot to trot to their static attacking game. In almost every break, the national coach pointed out this missed chance. But his team didn’t listen to him. Why not?
The German players also ignored a announcement of their coach on the defensive: too often, they tried to step out of the defense briefly to provoke ball losses, to create so -called “steals”. Gislason warned several times of the gaps that appear behind them: without success. In the lost quarter -finals you almost feared in a scene that the outstanding goalkeeper Andreas Wolff could storm out of the goal and defender Christoph Steinert once a lot of shaking through when he had tried to go to a ball again.