U21 breathes up after drama: “Life make life difficult”
23.06.2025 15:09 | 1: 46m
The German U21 national team stands after a wild quarter-final duel against Italy in the semi-finals of the European Championship.
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Incredible relief. I don’t know how many stones came down in the end. Down from the heart and from everywhere. It was amazing. We made the game unnecessarily exciting. I think we came back well after we have fallen behind for the first time in this tournament and had everything under control. Logically also through the late yellow red cards. And then we make life so difficult. It was noticed that the team is simply young, became hectic, nervous. It should never have leaded to two by an unnecessary loss of ball and then also the free kick.
I think it would have been difficult to shoot. That’s why it was good for us overall because it was just the moment when we got the goal in the 96. You have already noticed okay in the team, we have to go over it now and we have done it properly and will learn from it to play out in double outnumbering the next time and to stay calmer.
The team is extremely resilient, it also showed that yesterday. So two correct setbacks against Italy to be zero to one back and then turning the thing is one. And then in the regular season to get the equalizer in the last second, the other. But the team did not get unsettled, continued with a calm, with a matter of course and sovereignty. And then of course they also have with them. Nick wanted the best striker in her team in her team. He has already met five times and that’s a striker who puts quite afraid to the opposing defense series. And that’s why Germany with this exceptional striker really has the chance to win the title after 2017 and 2021.