Better to be lucky than good. We should've conceded 2-3 goals in the opening 30 minutes because jogi ****ed up our ability to play around the chilean press by bringing Mustafi back into the side, using both Ginter & Rudiger; and having Goretzka out there giving the ball away any time he touched it without being on the counter.
Luckily Rudiger made a great tackle, and the chileans screwed their chances up; before gifting us a goal. In the end we deserved a goal with some of the chances we wasted; but we did not deserve the 0.
I think they're doing ok considering that he brought a roster that's generally very good but generally lacks pressing resistance, and they're going up against a pressing machine. This squad is clearly much better suited to playing on the counter, and so far they are doing an ok job of trading blows with Chile.
Kimmich, Henrichs, Sule, Rudy, Hector are good enough at playing around pressing; and Stindl / Brandt are strong enough when coming deep to assist the build up; that not bringing Dahoud, while Tah & Weigl were injured, shouldn't be an excuse for being so clearly outclassed.
Götze at his best form yes. Özil hasnt Reus determination. Müller is never the better footballer. Sorry Brandt i cant take serious.
World cup Mueller doesn't have to the better footballer to break Ronaldo & Klose's record.
Sebastian Kehl just picked his Top 11. Looks pretty good if all healthy.
--------------------------Neuer
-----------Süle---------Boateng---------Hummels
----Kimmich------Kroos---------Gündogan-----Hector
----------------Draxler-------------------Reus
------------------------------Werner
Screw that. We should play to our strengths (assuming full health):
Brandt - Werner* - Mueller* - Sane
Kroos - Ilkay
Weigl
Hummels - Boateng - Kimmich
Neuer
*Stindl
or
Werner*
Brandt* - Mueller*
Sane - Weigl - Kroos - Henrichs
Hummels - Boateng - Kimmich
Neuer
*Stindl
Lars Stindl Fußballgott.
and this
Even with this embarassing performance, a good week for german football; winning the U21s with a B team and the confed cup with half of the U21 A team and the senior B team. Hopefully Jogi's luck continues at the WM and doesn't abandon us like it did at the euros.