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The German national soccer team missed a victory in the opening game of the Nations League season in injury time. In the first game after Corona’s long break, national coach Joachim Loew’s team played 1: 1 (0: 0). Germany led by a goal from Timo Werner (minute 51), José Gayà equalized in the sixth minute of injury time.
Before the first game in nearly ten months, Löw had announced that his team would push early. The Spanish forts had no major problems with that. When Germany got dangerous it was through deep flying balls from midfield: twice, captain Toni Kroos sought out forward Thilo Kehrer with a pass from left midfield: David De Gea saved both a Kehrer header ( 11 °) as a shot from Sané, which reached a free end after a head duel between Kehrer and José Gayà on the right wing of the area (18 °).
Nervous construction from Germany
Germany acted as in the pre-Crown period with a three-man chain, Emre Can moved to central defense. Germany seemed nervous, especially when it came to improving, goalkeepers Kevin Trapp and Can got their teammates into trouble over and over again in the first half due to imprecise passing: Rodrigo missed a back pass from the center line and went to Trapp first, but after the German goalkeeper. was scraped off (14.). After a misunderstanding between Can and Gündogan, Rodrigo again failed at point-blank range due to a standing defense by Trapp (45º + 1).
Also in the second half, Germany were mostly dangerous due to the diagonal balls from midfield. This time Ilkay Gündogan sent rookie Robin Gosens during a counterattack down the left wing, who played the ball flat into the middle. Sané let Werner pass, who put the ball on his strong right foot and hit the left corner (51st).
First stabilized, then passive
Tactically, both teams have been disciplined so far. As the duration of the game increased, the gaps in the respective defensive ranks became more obvious and the opportunities increased. Werner only hit on the outside from an acute angle (61º), Trapp stopped against the broken Fabian (64º).
After a corner, Niklas Süle also missed with a header on strong De Gea and missed the preliminary decision (78th). Previously, Löw had brought in Matthias Ginter, a central defender from Sané (63rd), partially dissolving the storm and thus initially stabilizing the defense. In the final phase, however, the German defense allowed itself to be pushed increasingly towards its own half.
In injury time, most of the Spanish defense rushed forward with Pau Torres, Sergio Ramos and Gayà. Because Gosens picked up the offside after a failed tackle to flank Ferrán Torres at the goal line, Gayà shot closely to equalize (90 + 6).
