Berlin (dpa)
It seems that Olaf Schulch, the German Chancellor, and all the German fans are experiencing a state of happiness following the great victory achieved by the German national football team over the Scottish national team 5-1 in the opening matches of the European Nations Cup (Euro 2024), while Julian Nagelsmann, the coach and his players, maintained their… On their focus.
Schulz wrote on the social networking site “X”: “What a start. Congratulations on the convincing start of the European Championship hosted by our country.”
The strong performance presented by the German team “The Machines” in Munich against an opponent that did not pose a real threat raised hopes of writing another fictional story, like what happened in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, when the German team advanced to the semi-finals. The newspaper “Bild” spoke of “a great festival of goals” on its website, while the newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” spoke of “Germany’s euphoric start,” while the magazine “Kicker” said: “This victory could break the chains.” The German national team was The German national team, a four-time world champion and three-time European champion, lost his first match in the last three major tournaments, which saw him exit the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in the group stage. He also exited the European Championship that was held in 2021 in the round of 16. The last two friendly matches for the German national team sparked New fears came after they tied 0-0 with the Ukrainian team and narrowly beat the Greek team 2-1, after it seemed that Nagelsmann had managed to turn things around by achieving a friendly victory over France and the Netherlands last March.
But the team presented a strong performance, as Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala scored two goals in the first 19 minutes of the match that was held in Munich, and Kai Havertz added the third goal from a penalty kick before the end of the first half, as a result of which Ryan Porteous, the Scottish national team player, was sent off, and Niklas scored. Volkrug and Emre Can scored the fourth and fifth goals in the second half.
Fans celebrated in crowded fan zones in the ten cities hosting the tournament and in the country as a whole.
Nagelsmann said after the match that the team “which performed very well” had the right to celebrate, while maintaining its focus.
He said: “I don’t think it makes sense to reduce their enthusiasm so much now, but we must take it into account and realize that we only won one match.”
He added: “This was necessary and important, but we must win at least one more match, and then win many more matches if we want to achieve our goal.”
Toni Kroos, who reversed his decision to retire from international football in March and will end his career after Euro 2024, said: “Of course we wanted our start to be good” and for the team to gain confidence, but he did not talk about momentum yet, as the German national team awaits two matches against Hungary and Switzerland. In the first group.
Cross said: “I don’t know if we have actually entered the ideal state after just one match, but if we maintain this level in the next match, which will certainly be more difficult, because we are facing a team that is at least stronger than Scotland, then we can talk about entering the ideal state.” ».
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