Reactions to the DFB debacle
The DFB-Aus “could also be a horror film”
12/02/2022 8:58 am
The German national soccer team experienced the next debacle at the World Cup in Qatar after the preliminary round in 2018. The players seemed shocked, and the reactions to the bankruptcy against Japan were named as the key to the sporting catastrophe.
Joshua Kimmich: “For me today is really, I would say, the most difficult day of my career. Especially when you look back. 2018 blew up. Last year the Euros were messed up. I joined in 2016, before that Germany was always in the semifinals. Then comes you do it and are eliminated twice in the preliminary round, last year in the round of 16. That’s not so easy for me personally to cope with. Because I’m personally associated with the failure. That’s not something you want to stand for. Of course I have the ambition and the aspiration, especially in the role that I had this year, if you take on even more responsibility, that the team can then progress and help the team to do that. I didn’t succeed. We’re going home. As a result, I’m a bit scared of really falling into a hole.”
Manuel Neuer: “Of course we’re all frustrated, and that’s difficult for us to process and we’ll certainly need it to understand what happened here. That’s clear, but of course the anger about the first group game prevails. In the second half against Japan, we blew it. We played a decent game against Spain and today we did our duty, did our homework. We made it our goal to win at least two goals against Costa Rica. That this The result in the end is not enough, not everyone necessarily counted on that.”
Hansi Flick: “I’m not speechless. I can interpret the game quite well. After the first half I was really angry. How we made our opponents strong. We had endless chances to score three or four goals. We got through carelessness made the opponent strong. The end wasn’t decided today, it was 20 minutes against Japan. We could have made it 2-1 against Spain too in the end. We weren’t efficient in this tournament. Of course the disappointment is huge, it has to be let’s process it first.”
Jamal Musiala: “We had chances where we just had to score. I didn’t see a player not wanting to win. It’s disappointing for Germany. We always have high goals. Getting kicked out twice is bitter. Now we have to we just learn from it so it doesn’t happen again.”
Thomas Müller: “We put a lot of effort into it, no longer keeping our positions perfectly. We lost discipline a bit. But we were in the urge phase the whole time. The effort that the team put into winning this game was nice enormous. It’s incredibly bitter for us that Japan managed to beat Spain. It’s a bit of a faint feeling. We’ve done our homework. The whole tragedy happened with the result against Japan. We can do Spain’s game I don’t have any influence. The disappointment is huge. We had a really good feeling after the game against Spain. It’s an absolute disaster. I don’t know how things will continue.”
Antonio Ruediger: The last greed, that something dirty – we miss that. Lots of talent, all well and good. But there is more to it than just talent, other factors also play a role. We have to improve on that, otherwise we won’t get any further.” According to Rüdiger, the German national team is “again at zero, that’s the harsh reality, but that’s the reality we are in.” It’s the second World Cup preliminary round -Ko in a row “it’s your own fault”, the defeat at the start against Japan “hunted us”. Rüdiger could understand the criticism of the defensive behavior. “I don’t think I can do anything about it,” he said, “as a team we have defensive didn’t work, you have to be honest.” But things could have gone better offensively, especially in terms of efficiency. “There’s a lot missing in both parts of the team.”
Jonas Hofmann: “We all imagined it completely differently. It’s difficult to find any words. First of all, there isn’t a player who wouldn’t have liked to win 7-0 or 8-0. We didn’t manage to create clear chances to score maybe go into half-time 3-0 or 4-0 so that Spain realizes they can’t play Larifari.At some point the only point left was that we had to make it 3-2 and hope for Spain – in vain.They did Of course, we had two or three buses parked. But that’s no reason for us not to find a solution. We used the elimination against Japan as a basis.”
Kai Havertz: “We have to look at ourselves that we’re going to lose against Japan, and we could do better against Spain. Of course it’s bitter, but anything can happen in football. That’s why we said at half-time that we weren’t going to take it easy Take your shoulder. That’s how it works, it could be a horror movie.”