Sunday June 20th 2021
Press comments on the DFB spectacle
“Germany puts Portugal on the torture bench”
With 4: 2 and a great offensive game, Germany waddles European champions Portugal. The international press pays homage to the “Festschmaus in Munich” and Robin Gosens, “the king of the game”. Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portuguese, on the other hand, would be “rolled over like an avalanche”.
Portugal
A bola: “The German tanks destroy the fragile Portuguese defenses.”
Publico: “The European champion is afraid of Germany.”
Record: “Ronaldo has to practice humility.”
France
L’Équipe: “In a crazy game Germany shines despite being behind against Portugal. The tension in Group F remains. The Germans have shown a high level performance. There have never been two own goals in a single EURO game.”
Ouest France: “A big feast in Munich! In a high-class game, ‘The Team’ gave Portugal a lesson. It must be expected.”
Le Monde: “That was a perfect reaction from the Germans after the opening defeat. They clearly dominated Portugal. Germany is back in the race for the round of 16. Goals, intensity, rhythm, turned a situation on its head: This clash of two great football nations has all promises kept. “
Le Parisien: “The team has more than reported back. The speed of the young German squad forced the Portuguese to score two own goals. The Germans showed their claws and made Group F exciting again.”
Le Figaro: “Portugal on the ground. Cristiano Ronaldo, although the scorer of the first goal, and his partners fell hard on the face. It was a crazy game.”
England
telegraph: “Germany is rioting: with four goals Germany destroys defending champions Portugal.”
Daily Mail: “Germany is forcing Portugal to its knees: It was THE game that EURO – Havertz and Gosens meet, plus two own goals. Ronaldo and Co. are now in group F against France.”
Mirror: “Havertz shines, Ronaldo is seething: a thriller with six goals, Germany embarrassed Portugal.”
Netherlands
AD: “Germany destroys Portugal in an incomparable EM duel, a brilliant role for Robin Gosens. Germany has taken its lot back into its own hands with a ‘half Dutchman’. The heavily criticized team played away all frustrations in a wonderful game against Portugal . With two handicaps and a precise header, left winger Robin Gosens experienced the evening of his football life. “
Voetbal International: “Unleashed Germany mercilessly puts Portugal on the torture bench. Robin Gosens played a leading role in the German show. After the wrong start of the European Championship, Germany was keen to win against Portugal that the hunt for the European title should fail in advance. ”
Spain
Marca: “Germany will get the club out of the best game of the European Championship. Portugal and Cristiano dream at the beginning, but then give up against the enormous game of Löw’s men. Germany dedicated an ode to football, it showed that they can achieve anything.”
AS: “Germany is still such a beast. The beast was Gosens. Insane spectacle of the left defender of the German national team with two assists and one goal.”
Sports: “May no one rule out Germany anymore. Gosens, the left defender, became the leader at the goal festival against Portugal. It was one of the best games of the European Championship so far.
El Mundo Deportivo: “Germany is reacting in a big way with a peat festival against Portugal. With such performances Germany belongs again to the circle of favorites.”
Italy
Gazzetta dello Sport: “A German symphony: after the unsuccessful European Championship debut against France, Löw’s troop confirms that the Germans never die in football.”
Corriere dello Sport: “Gosens’ show inspires the Germans. Ronaldo is not enough to keep the Portuguese afloat.”
Tuttosport: “Germany is still alive, defeated Ronaldo’s Portugal and is back in this European Championship.”
Corriere della Sera: “Germany rolled over Cristiano Ronaldo like an avalanche. The king of the game this time is not CR7, who scored a goal, but Atalanta’s star Gosens.”
La Repubblica: “Gosens saves Germany. He is the German hero, although until a few months ago he was a stranger back home, as he never played in a German championship and emigrated at the age of 18.”
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