Germany loses the international football match against Belgium 2:3
Nafter a Belgian lesson Hansi Flick there is still a lot of work to do with the national soccer team on the way to the European Championships at home. Despite an improvement in performance in the second half, the national soccer team conceded the next historic defeat just four months after the World Cup disaster in Qatar.
The 2:3 (1:2) against the Red Devils, who were coached by Domencio Tedesco after their own early failure at the World Cup, was the first German defeat against the neighboring country in 69 years. In any case, the slight hope that German football would improve after the 2-0 win against Peru has given way to disillusionment.
Yannick Carrasco (6th) and Romelu Lukaku (9th) scored the first two goals for the Belgians on Tuesday evening in front of 42,910 spectators in the sold-out Cologne stadium in an initial phase that was irritating for Flick and was like a very bitter lesson for the DFB-Elf. The start raised fears of a debacle like the 0: 6 in Spain two and a half years ago, but the DFB team stabilized. Niclas Füllkrug (44th penalty) scored his sixth goal in the sixth international match shorten.
In the second half, when the Belgians shifted down two gears, it was even possible to equalize with a few chances. But then worried Kevin De Bruyne (78th) for the old distance. In the end, Serge Gnabry’s goal again didn’t change anything about the defeat (87th).
Defensively overwhelmed at first
While the professionals from FC Bayern Munich And Borussia Dortmund will see each other again in the Bundesliga cracker on Saturday, after the third defeat of his term, Flick now has to provide answers for the upcoming international three-pack in June, including the 1000th DFB game against Ukraine. The national coach should then certainly reduce his personal experiments again.
The new DFB sports director Rudi Voeller was absent from the stands due to renal colic. What the 1990 world champion got to see at home in front of the television in the first half, he probably didn’t like at all. In the first half, the DFB team was really shown off by the Belgians, who also had to digest a disappointment in Qatar. Above all, the defense around the completely indisposed Marius Wolf on the right flank was completely overwhelmed against the Belgian stars around Kevin De Bruyne.
Position mistakes, poor duel behavior, tactical weaknesses – there was a lack of every nook and cranny. For a long time nothing worked out on the offensive either, so the young Leverkusen star Florian Wirtz was redeemed after half an hour. There were more concerns than that Leon Goretzka had to limp off the field after 32 minutes. The Munich player’s left ankle was heavily bandaged, which must have given new Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel a fright ahead of the Bundesliga summit against leaders Dortmund on Saturday.
