GAt Laugardalsvöllur Stadium, there is a distance of 15 meters between the coach’s bench and the sideline. On Wednesday night, Hansi Flick had a lot of miles. The new national team coach has been wobbly between approach and distance, and he doesn’t always seem to be satisfied. But the direction that can be said after 90 minutes is correct.
In the end, Reykjavik’s German national football team had a strong and happy victory over Iceland 4-0. Compared to a 6-0 victory over Armenia, they are now more of a regular season than a party mode. But first, things like reliable routines have not been taken for granted in the recent past, and second, after a weaker stage, she is willing to follow those purposeful and playful things again-Flick is right again I am very satisfied.
Serge Gnabry (4th minute) and Antonio Rudiger (24th minute), Leroy Sane (56th minute) and Timo Werner (89th minute) Minutes), could have scored more goals. With Frick’s third victory in the third game, the national team is clearly ready to participate in the Qatar World Cup, especially since Armenia did not beat Liechtenstein 1-1.
The team and their new coach have reached the first intermediate stage of course, and with the aura of hunger and freshness, it makes you want more. October continues, in Hamburg on the 8th against Romania, three days later in Skopje against North Macedonia-from a German point of view, there is something to make up for, one of them was Joachim at 1:2 at the end of March. The program under Joachim Löw collapsed for the last time.
Full of confidence in the Iceland crisis
Frick started studying self-image a long time ago. “The important thing is that we know what qualities we have, so it doesn’t matter to me who is across the street,” Flick said with a touch of Bavarian mia-san-mia before flying to Iceland. Icelandic football lost its horror not long ago, at least in terms of sports. After scoring 4 points in five games, the team of head coach Arnal Widerson entered the game-second to last before Liechtenstein. The most recent headlines are all about moral decay, and allegations of sexual abuse are in the room. A few years ago, because they only followed up slowly, the entire association’s senior executives resigned.
In front of the stadium, a proper awareness display was carried out under the pink elephant sign, and the audience kept the first “um” until the 12th minute. At this time, the German team was already 1-0 ahead. It was through Suler’s Chipball that passed the ball perfectly. The ball passed to Sane through Kimmich. Sane hit the ball in the direction of the long goal post, knowing the fourth place. The Munich player in the league, Gnabry, counts on it-this is called blind understanding, and it goes so smoothly that the video assistant must first be turned on to recognize the precision work that meets the standards.
The German team went to Iceland without Marco Royce and Riddell Baku. Royce’s knee problems prevented him from showing strong performance against Armenia. Baku is the team with the most. In the first XI, after Stuttgart’s wonder Ilkay Gündogan played for Reus, Flick saw no further reason to change. This is not a fun and easy game like against Armenia. More patience is required here, but it is not difficult for the Germans to take the lead behind. Neuer had to stretch when Johanneson made a shot, but other than that, Flick’s team showed calm control.
Standards bring danger
2-0 again shows that the coordination process is taking effect. Kimmich’s free kick, Rüdiger steals from behind the Icelandic defender-it is where Kimmich’s GPS guides the ball, headers, and goals. This is a bit rare, not only because it was only Rudiger’s second international goal, but also because Loew’s standard situation ended up being more of a destruction. When Sane made a meaningful attempt from 18 meters after the 36th minute, he took three steps back. Aside, people inevitably thought of the new standard coach Mads Buttgereit, but Sane’s spin was wrong and the ball fell too late.
Three chances and two goals, it is efficient, but you can also see that the Germans let it slip a little. Their offense is very sloppy. The Icelanders occasionally give a lot of space to counterattack. John Gu Demondson actually had to use this short film before the break. Then Flick brought Kai Havertz and Lukas Klostermann to Gnabry and Jonas Hofmann, and at the same time things became more aggressive again. You can no longer call it efficient, how Werner and Havertz deal with their possibilities, in between John Gudmundsen hit the German team. But Sane deserves extra praise, and Werner saved the last point.
