World Cup qualification-Julian Nagelsmann and DFB team reveal basic defects

How quickly a mood of German football was emptied on Sunday evening was noticeable. There were still enough supporters who swiveled a Germany flag, but the majority went under the Peter Schilling sounds with “Major Tom” preferred to go home from Cologne-Müngersdorf. And detached »is only a little left at the German national team-in the 3: 1 against Northern Ireland, only the obligation was fulfilled to avert a colossal false start to the World Cup qualification.

Hyanes in the bush

At the break, there was still a whimpering whistle concert at 1-1. Julian Nagelsmann had a problem with the resentment of the followers. The spectators had paid a lot of money and would come to the stadium with a certain expectations, the national coach later explained his “understanding”. “On the other hand, a wish for something else.” Because the 38-year-old wanted to have recognized a social supreme. He wouldn’t whistle: «Because I think it doesn’t work down there. When we all sit and wait like hyenas in the bush and wait until you can finally bite and say how bad someone is and that they are shitty – I don’t think you develop so well as a country.

As after the quarter -finals at the EM 2024, Nagelsmann spanned a large arc. What seemed suitable at the time because of the radiance of the event now seems Windschief. Because it is precisely in his field the basic deficits that not only disappoint the audience in the stadium. So it may be that his team has been building a chain of three since March 2024, as the national coach emphasized. Either nominally as against Northern Ireland with the central defenders Antonio Rüdiger, Waldemar Anton and Robin Koch or with a tipping six. The problem: it takes far too long for the ball to come forward.

Evil fans

Nagelsmann will also know: If, as with the 0-2 embarrassment three days earlier in Bratislava against Slovakia, the attitude on the square is wrong, the fan can get really angry. And basically his team has to endure scolding in bad games, because in good times she wants to be the last campfire around which a nation feels.

In Cologne, after the early lead, Nagelsmann chewed Serge Gnabry after seven minutes in the delicate phase around the balance of Isaac Price in the 34th minute nervous on his fingernails. He had already done this in the F-youth, he later explained in a smell that nobody should derive a tension from it. But of course he also dropped a load from him. When looking at the further consideration, he tried to reduce it: “I find it a bit measured after Thursday, when everything was in ruins and ash, to make it in sky highly.” This course was only “50 percent satisfactory” in terms of results. The next mid-October is expected to bring a 100 percent yield-six points-with the home game against Luxembourg and away in Belfast against Northern Ireland. The national coach admitted after just 30 convincing minutes: “We still have many steps to take.” In any case, the distance to the world leaders seems to have grown again.

With slicks in the rain

Nagelsmann countered the criticism of spreading the poison of uncertainty with too many experiments. He could impossible to commit to a stammed team, for which he once switched to motorsport: “Formula 1 does not always drive with the same tires because it simply makes no sense to drive with slicks when it rains.” Incidentally, he drove the dark clouds over the cathedral city himself: The national coach, which was still complained about in the Nations League against Italy and Portugal, had a happy hand in his 25th international: Maximilian Beier and Nadiem Amiri ensured this time. So the 2-1 was created, when Beier missed a good flank ball in the 69th minute, Amiri behind it was free to insert. Florian Wirtz scored three minutes with a free kick to 3: 1. An energy performance and an art shot prevented the mass exhaustion from the Cologne stadium – and displeasure of larger dimensions.