‘Tank Corps’ Germany’s loss to Japan in the first group stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was an expected result. Unlike Japan, which has played seven warm-up matches since the World Cup group draw in April this year to solidify its organizational strength, Germany has played only one warm-up match, and Germany’s coach Hansi Flick It is said that the tactical response during the match was insufficient. Spain vs Costa Rica..
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‘Tank Corps’ Germany’s loss to Japan in the first group stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was an expected result. Unlike Japan, which has played seven warm-up matches since the World Cup group draw in April this year to solidify its organizational strength, Germany has played only one warm-up match, and Germany’s coach Hansi Flick It is said that the tactical response during the match was insufficient. Despite the Spain and Costa Rica games remaining, Germany have been criticized for not preparing properly for the 2018 World Cup in Russia despite the humiliation of being eliminated from the group stage. is unavoidable.
Germany’s warm-up game before this World Cup is only the match once morest Oman on the 17th of this month, just before the opening of the tournament. It is said that he had experience playing once morest Asian teams in preparation for the match once morest Japan. It was pointed out that no Germany scored just one goal at the end of the second half, and it was a narrow 1-0 victory.
The lack of warm-up games was partly due to the fact that the UEFA’s “Nations League”, a national competition, was held until September. For that reason, the warm-up match just before the World Cup was important for checking ability and consolidating organizational strength, but Germany passed the chance without thinking much regarding the meaning. Furthermore, five of the 11 players who started once morest Japan (Thomas Muller, Antonio Rudiger, Niklas Sule, Serge Gnabry and Jamal Musiara) did not appear once morest Oman. Players who had never worked together entered the World Cup finals.
Coach Flick’s leadership was also put on the table. Despite allowing Japan to tie the score and score a come-from-behind goal, there was no change in tactics, and they were desperate to increase the number of forwards. He brought in Niklas Fürkrug, Mario Götze and Yussufah Mukko one following another, but failed to make much of a difference. Hürkrug and Moukoko were shortlisted players with no national team experience who made their A-match debut once morest Oman. It was Götze’s first A-match appearance since November 2017 in five years. He didn’t seem to expect to allow Japan to take the lead, and he didn’t seem to have a “plan B” in place. On the other hand, following conceding a goal in the first half, Japan’s coach Moriyasu switched to a three-back tactic in the second half, and made the right substitutions in the right positions to lead the team to a come-from-behind victory. Ritsu Doan (SC Freiburg, Germany) and Takuma Asano (VfL Bochum, Germany), who scored goals on this day, were the players Moriyasu brought in in the second half.
The German sports newspaper “Kicker” reported, “The defeat once morest Japan is not bad luck. It’s because coach Flick caused the failure.” . Gundogan, who scored a penalty kick in the first half, was substituted in the 22nd minute of the second half when they were leading 1-0.
There are also voices of remorse from within the German national team. “We made it easy for them to play,” Gundogan said. I often lost it easily,” he said. “We were too inefficient. It was a mess,” said star player Thomas Müller.
Reporter Kim Young-joon
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