Great tournament from Germany. Not much preparation before the tourney, a very suspect squad with many limitations from the league in putting together the team, players who will never ever come even close to the national team and an early injury to key player Goretzka. The olympics have zero importance in Germany, therefore taking Brazil to penalties in the final at Maracana is an unbelievable success.
Brazil won the final deserved, they were the better team for most of the game and you could easily see they wanted revenge for the 7:1. Germany had no depth behind the starting eleven and that's why Hrubesch did not use his third and fourth changes. Had Bender not been injured he wouldn't even have used a second change. Great for Brazil, maybe they can move on now from the 7:1 because that sting seems to hurt them until today.