Germany welcomes Spain as the rival to beat in the Euro Cup

In Germany, whose team will face Spain today in the quarter-finals of the European Championship, the Spanish team is received as a rival with praise for the good play displayed in the tournament by Luis de la Fuente’s pupils and with the idea that if the ‘Mannschaft’ beats ‘La Roja’, the Germans will take the title.

“If we beat Spain, we’ll take the title,” headlined the ‘Bild’ newspaper, Germany’s most widely read newspaper, in one of its opinion pieces on the Euro Cup this week.

The text was signed by journalist Matthias Brügelmann, who expressed his conviction that “Germany or Spain, whoever wins on Friday, takes the title.”

The newspaper ‘Die Welt’ also reported that the match against Spain “could also be the final” in a competition in which the ‘Mannschaft’ plays at home and where the Spanish team has received many compliments.

Following Spain’s comeback win over Georgia (4-1) in the round of 16, the sports page of the newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ praised the team coached by De la Fuente for overcoming the adversity caused by the early own goal scored by defender Robin Le Normand (18′).

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Spain is a team that “can cope with even a brief period of confusion, because the goals come,” said the Munich-based newspaper.

“Therefore, the confidence in their own strengths ahead of the quarter-final match against Germany is enormous,” said the newspaper, which also highlighted that so far in the competition Spain is the only team to have won all its matches and the second team to have scored the most goals, nine, one less than the German team.

The German sports press also heard from renowned voices in German football, such as Andreas Möller, who won a European Championship in 1996, and who stated in an article in the magazine ‘Kicker’ that Spain is “the measure of all things” in the competition given its good play and results.

However, he was optimistic given the performance of Julian Nagelsmann’s Germany.

||EFE