After the 4-2 win against Costa Rica, there was emptiness, bewilderment and a lot of frustration in the DFB team. Once again a German national team has to go home after the World Cup group stage. In the parallel game, Japan once again turned a game around and beat Spain 2-1. The German voices after the World Cup debacle:
“I’m not speechless, I can interpret the game quite well, but after the first half I was really angry. Our goal was to score two, three or four goals to put pressure on Spain and we also had endless chances “We won the game and today didn’t decide the end, it was 20 minutes against Japan. We could have made it 2-1 against Spain too . We weren’t efficient throughout the tournament, that’s why we were eliminated. Of course I’m extremely disappointed.” About his coaching team: “My coaching team and I did a good job, we prepared the team well. But it wasn’t enough. “On the future: “The task with the team motivates me, now is not the right time to talk about something like that. I can say that I enjoy it and it will continue from my side. We have good players who follow, it won’t be up to me.”
On the performance: “Everyone wanted to position themselves to help the team. We lost positions a little bit. However, after that we were in the urge phase the whole time, apart from one situation where Manu helped us. The effort that the team put in was enormous, in the end the efficiency wasn’t good enough to create the miracle of winning with a seven-goal difference.”About Japan vs. Spain: “Obviously it’s incredibly bitter for us that Japan beat the Spaniards defeated. We did our homework for the realistic scenarios, like a Spain victory or a draw, it feels like a feeling of powerlessness. I don’t think you can blame the team today and in the Spain game. It’s just unfortunate with the result against Japan, but we can’t influence the game against Japan. We had a really good feeling after the Spain game and we thought we could go far into the tournament.”Ex his future in the DFB team: “It’s an absolute catastrophe, I don’t know how it will continue, but if it was the last game, I would like to say a few last words: It was enormous pleasure, dear people, thank you very much. I tried to keep my heart on the pitch in every game. Sometimes there were tears of joy, sometimes pain in the face, but I always did it with love, I have to see everything else first.” A little later he put his words into perspective a little. He would first think about it and talk to his wife.
About the World Cup: “For me today is really, I would say, the most difficult day of my career. Especially when you look back. 2018 blew up. Last year the Euros blew up. I joined in 2016, before that it was Germany always in the semi-finals. Then you come on and are eliminated twice in the preliminary round, last year in the round of 16. That’s not so easy for me personally to cope with. Because I’m personally associated with the failure. That’s not something you do Of course I have the ambition and the aspiration, especially in the role that I had this year, if you take on even more responsibility, that the team can progress and help the team to do that. We’re going home again, so I’m a bit afraid of really falling into a hole.”Everything about Kimmich’s worrying words: here.
“Obviously the disappointment is huge. It started with the first game. In the end, football is easy, if you lose the first game it becomes difficult. We should have taken the lead quicker to put pressure on the Spaniards, that was unfortunately it didn’t work out.” About the reasons for the end: “I’m angry with all of us, we’re all in the same boat, it’s not about pointing a finger at someone. The players gave everything, in the end you have to realize that it wasn’t enough, you simply can’t afford to make any mistakes at that level. It has been going on for two or three years that we have games under control, but give them up and lose the thread. That was it in the end to be seen in the group.” About the German youth work: “Mistakes were already made ten years ago, only two years ago. We rested on our laurels for too long and we are feeling it now. Certain qualities are missing, but we had them a good squad, d aran I don’t want to fix it.” About his future: “I don’t ask myself that question, I’ve been here for 18 years, I’m not worried about that, but I don’t have any good arguments with the three bad tournaments.”
“Of course we’re all frustrated, and that’s difficult for us to process and we’ll certainly need it to understand what happened here. That’s clear, but of course the anger about the first group game prevails. In the second half against Japan, we blew it. We played a decent game against Spain and today we did our duty, did our homework. We made it our goal to win at least two goals against Costa Rica. That this The result in the end is not enough, not everyone necessarily counted on that.”
“We concede goals too easily, we lose balls too easily and up front we give away scoring chances too easily.” On the claim of the DFB team: “Of course, as Germany, we have to have a different claim, so we have to take a look at ourselves. We just didn’t manage to do our best as a group, maybe individually. We have to question what the reasons were and everyone has to look in the mirror and say to themselves that it wasn’t enough.”
About the World Cup: “We didn’t expect the result from Spain, we had enough chances to win against Spain and also against Japan. Costa Rica gave us the chance at all, but once again we didn’t take the chance .””You can see it on the screen, in the reaction of the fans and also in the reaction of the bench.””It must not happen, the game against Japan ruined everything. Now we’re knocked out twice in the group stage, there is clear that we are not a tournament team. We had a great team, a great team behind the team. We gave everything. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough.”On the game against Costa Rica: “I think after the 1-0 “We had the feeling that we could do even more. But we didn’t make it. Of course nobody expected things to go so badly. We have to blame ourselves for conceding two goals against Japan in 15 minutes that didn’t work. “Fact on the side: Joker Havertz was born n named Man of the Match after his brace.
About the World Cup: “It’s our own fault. I think the first game is chasing us. It’s too easy to blame Spain. It’s bitter.””I think we didn’t work as a team. It has to to say it honestly. We need to work on that. We’re doing well up front in some cases, but the switching movement at the back after certain ball losses is just not good enough.”
“A slightly higher lead at the break would have helped us. Then we would have taken the fun out of Costa Rica a bit. After the 1-0 win, there was a lack of further crushing.””We didn’t get through the group stage because of today. We had a lot against Japan Problems. That was the decisive match day. It hurts extremely, it is extremely difficult to digest. It will take a very, very, very long time to digest.”
“We had chances where we just had to score. I didn’t see a player not wanting to win. It’s disappointing for Germany. We always have high goals. Getting kicked out twice is bitter. Now we have to we just learn from it so it doesn’t happen again.”
“We all imagined it completely differently. It’s difficult to find any words. First of all, there isn’t a player who wouldn’t have liked to win 7-0 or 8-0. We didn’t manage to create clear chances to score maybe go into half-time 3-0 or 4-0 so that Spain realizes they can’t play Larifari.At some point the only point left was that we had to make it 3-2 and hope for Spain – in vain.They did Of course, we had two or three buses parked. But that’s no reason for us not to find a solution. We used the elimination against Japan as a basis.”
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This article was originally published on 90min.de as “I’m angry with all of us” – The German voices on the Qatar World Cup debacle.
