It’s also the worst squad we’ve sent to a tournament in the last 30 years.
Unfortunately, the last 30 years also include phases of very, very dark German rumbling football.
Sun 98, 00, 04, and possibly. also in 2018.
It’s actually strange that a country that has always produced good defenders is currently weak in defense while there is already a lot of world class in midfield.
Let’s go through the squad: Neuer in goal is world class. ter Stegen too.
In defense it’s just Rüdiger at the moment.
In midfield Kimmich, Goretzka, Musiala, Sane, Gnabry, Gündogan
I have a hard time with Müller, just like with Havertz. Both are not really in shape.
We lack class in attack. The rest of the team are good to very good Bundesliga players who would probably not play a major role in CL top teams.
And players like Kroos or Reus would also be world class, but unfortunately they are not there. Although that’s in positions where we shouldn’t have any problems anyway without failures.
I don’t know if you can make up for the missing class with team performance and development in 3 defensive positions and up front.
When I look at the teams from Brazil, Spain, France, England and Portugal, for example, there’s a lot of class in the teams.
Germany should rather be in the extended circle of favourites.
But our team is not really young.