Train for the first title: The DFB team with Florian Wirtz (left) and Leroy Sané in Herzogenaurach
Photo: Image/Harry Koerber
The holes were stuffed on Tuesday. Some square meters of hybrid turf were used in the Munich arena to prepare the underground. Fans of Paris Saint-Germain tore memory out of the lawn last Saturday after their team won 5-0 against Inter Milan in the final of the Champions League.
Julian Nagelsmann shouldn’t be as easy as the greenkeeper to fill the holes in his team. When the national coach had nominated his squad for the Nations League final tournament, the failures of Jamal Musiala, Tim Kleindienst, Kai Havertz, Antonio Rüdiger and Nico Schlotterbeck were already certain. Gradually, Angelo Stiller, Nadiem Amiri and Yann Bisseck. And the post -nominated Jonathan Burkardt had to leave the district of the German national team in Herzogenaurach.
The long list of failures does not change the fact that the selection of the German Football Association (DFB) before the semi-finals of the Nations League continues to pursue the highest goals against Portugal this Wednesday. “We want to get there again to win titles together. Even if it is only a small title, it is very important for us as a group, «the national coach said right at the beginning of the training days in Herzogenaurach. The last time the German national team won a tournament in 2017. At that time it won the Confed Cup in Russia before it had to fly home as a embarrassed defending champion at the World Cup there after the group phase. This time the profit is sought in the Nations League to encourage the big goal of the World Cup title in a year in the USA, Canada and Mexico. “We want to continue our self -image with good performance and results,” said Nagelsmann.
Captain Joshua Kimmich now wants to send a good signal “to the outside, but also inwards” with two victories. “Of course, the tournament does not have the importance of a World Cup or EM, but I also found the win of the Confed Cup very cool in 2017-somewhere at this level I would classify the Nations League,” he said and added: “There is simply self-confidence if you have the feeling of being on the right path, and then also receiving confirmation in the form of victories and titles.”
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The DFB team should give the final tournament a boost. This is all the more promised because two victories against two top nations would be necessary for winning the title in the Nations League. This Wednesday only against Portugal, then against Spain or France, who play the second semi -finals in Stuttgart on Thursday. If the German team won against Portugal, it would compete in Munich again on Sunday evening in the final, otherwise the game for third place in Stuttgart would be against the loser of the second semi -final game in the afternoon.
With all of this, Nagelsmann is about putting the right parts together in his personnel puzzle to fill the gaps that have left important players. He has to change his team’s face very much compared to the quarter -finals against Italy at the end of March, almost half of the then squad is not there. Even six players are not available from his starting eleven from 3: 3 against the Italian team in the quarter-final second leg in Dortmund. All parts of the team have to be filled again, starting from the goal with the number one returned after a long injury break, Marc-André Ter Stegen, right up to the storm tip, in which Nick Woltemade may be debutant. “We still have a very, very good team,” said Nagelsmann.
Portugal can draw from full personnel. In addition, the Portuguese PSG players Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, João Neves and Gonçalo Ramos return to the Munich Arena just four days after their title boosters in the Champions League. After the final victory against Inter, Vitinha had posted a photo with Mendes, Neves and Ramos and titled “Portugal Saint-Germain”. By the way, her national coach Roberto Martínez commissioned the title win for the final Four, just like his colleague Nagelsmann.
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