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When the Nations League started again, things were looking good for the German team well into injury time, but in the sixth minute of injury time, the victory against Spain was still a gift.
By Christian Hornung
In the end, the Germans had to attribute the 1: 1 (0: 0) to themselves. After a very good performance for a long time, too careless at the end and too passive tactics in the last 20 minutes they took their revenge.
“That’s very annoying,” Timo Werner admitted shortly after the finale at ZDF. “We got pushed too far back. But only four minutes of injury time was called. In the end we had so many defenders on the field that we could have cleared the ball.”
Gosens and Sané fight
Leroy Sané said: “In general it was good, but of course it is always annoying to get a goal conceded so late.” National coach Joachim Löw analyzed: “In the first half it was a very attractive match tactically, we did it early and put a lot of pressure. In the second half we were a little too deep and lost decisive duels with a header. Conceding a late goal hurts, for course “.
Rookie Robin Gosens got into a fight: “I’m really upset that we’re going to concede something else in the sixth minute of injury time. Overall, it was a great night for me and I’m glad we got the squad for our goal. Now for Of course I want to continue with that, but first I have to play a great season again.
Sweeper with first chance
After ten minutes of scanning in midfield, Toni Kroos had the first brilliant idea of the game. With a precise wing change, he gave forward Thilo Kehrer a good chance to head, but David de Gea in the Spanish goal defused the touchdown with a bit of effort.
Just two minutes later, after a poor pass from Julian Draxler, the vote between goalkeeper Kevin Trapp and Emre Can was not correct, but Rodrigo hesitated too long for Trapp to steal the ball from behind with a risky tackle.
De Gea with strong parades
During this phase, things came and went: on the other, Julian Draxler forced De Gea to defend his feet. Manchester United’s extremely volatile goalkeeper last season shone again seconds later, when Leroy Sané had aimed for the left corner.
The Spanish continued to be dangerous, after a discarded header Sergio Busquets had a good shot opportunity, but Trapp was in the corner threatened in time. The DFB team then got carried away too far in their own half, but had two decent counter opportunities through Timo Werner and Leroy, which they didn’t take advantage of.
Can and Rüdiger extremely faulty
Shortly before the break, the Spaniards got dangerously close to the German goal again as the remarkably slow Can missed once again: Rodrigo missed again on Trapp. Besides Can, Antonio Rüdiger was also a big problem in the German defense, his bad passes repeatedly led to dangerous situations.
Atalanta Bergamo’s rookie Robin Gosens also acted extremely pale or nearly invisible in the first round. That suddenly changed after five minutes in the second round. Ilkay Gündogan cleared Gosens with a superb 50-meter pass, which put the ball into the penalty area perfectly through Werner, and the new Chelsea striker executed an icy shot into the left corner.
Werner in double bad luck
After that, the Germans had everything under control in Stuttgart. Werner failed first from a semi-right position on De Gea, who reacted well again, who was then called back for being offside was a wrong decision. Seconds later, after a (too) disinterested pass from Sané, Werner was free again in front of the Spanish goal, but the angle was a bit too sharp for him to only hit the outside net.
In the 66th minute, Can was 2-0 on his foot. After replacing the ailing Sané and replacing Matthias Ginter, the Dortmund player advanced to midfield and was unlucky that De Gea also got a foot on the ball after his individual class performance.
Very little relief
Nothing came from Spain until the 70th minute, only Thiagos Schlenzer just past the right corner caused a bit of danger. However, this scene caused a change of forces. National coach Joachim Löw’s tactic of continuing to play with only one striker after Sané was substituted was risky: Germany barely took over and fell far behind.
Löw topped it all off when he replaced Werner with another central defender shortly before the end: With Robin Koch, ten defensive players were on the field at the end. However, the Spaniards did not think of too much in the face of goal.
Löw’s defensive tactics take revenge in the end
The very attentive Trapp deactivated the rare half chances. And when Ansu Fati headed in injury time, Sergio Ramos smashed the goal with a strong elbow against Ginter. When everything looked like a sure victory, the Spaniards finally scored: Gaya maneuvered the ball over the line from close range in the 96th minute.
Something strange about this equalization was the fact that Sergio Ramos’ serious unsportsmanlike conduct had resulted in the extension of injury time. The captain of the Spaniards later said: “We go home satisfied because in the end we were rewarded for our effort.” He didn’t say anything about his elbow in Ginter’s face.
Those: sportschau.de
