With all due respect to Austria, who played a great game – but also consists largely of average players.
As an Austrian I am of course biased… but I think that what you write is also what the German team thinks about their opponents like us Ösis… and now it comes…
Our central midfield of 6s and 8s consists of seiwald, schlager and laimer… and I say they are actually better for what they are supposed to do than kimmich, goretzka and ca…
I’m not saying that they are the better ball players, but these 3 stand on the feet of every opponent, don’t shy away from a duel even if it might hurt and they tear themselves apart for their team…
a kimmich sees himself as a distributor, preparer and maybe 10, goretzka has lost his bite for a long time, gündogan is a gifted footballer, but especially at city we saw he is a magician and footballer but not a holding 6…
Sane and Gnabry seem as if they don’t care about the team, the main thing is that they can show how great individual players they are…
and finally Alaba… that’s what I call a captain, a leader that everyone believes in, who always exudes calm, has an overview, delays… in Germany it doesn’t seem like there is a captain who drives the team at the moment…
and finally how embarrassing it is Nagelsmann who orders Trapp to simulate so that Austria’s rhythm is interrupted… do you need something like that… you won’t win any fans that way… let the German U21 play… at least they aren’t fed up yet…