Germany’s “Tank Corps” defeat by Japan in the first group stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was an expected result. Unlike Japan, which has played seven warm-up matches since the World Cup group draw in April this year to consolidate its organizational strength, Germany has only played one warm-up match, and Germany coach Hansi Flick It is said that the tactical response during the match was insufficient. Spain vs Costa Rica..
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Germany’s “Tank Corps” defeat by Japan in the first group stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was an expected result. Unlike Japan, which has played seven warm-up matches since the World Cup group draw in April this year to consolidate its organizational strength, Germany has played only one warm-up match, and Hansi Flick, head coach of the German national team. the tactical response during the match is said to have been insufficient. With matches in Spain and Costa Rica remaining, Germany were criticized for not preparing properly for the 2018 World Cup in Russia despite the humiliation of being knocked out of the group stage.
Germany’s warm-up match before this World Cup is just the match against Oman on the 17th of this month, just before the tournament opens. He is said to have had experience playing against Asian teams in preparation for the match against Japan. Germany scored only one goal late in the second half, and it was a narrow 1-0 victory.
The lack of warm-up matches was partly due to the fact that UEFA’s ‘Nations League’, a national competition, ran until September. This is why the warm-up match on the eve of the World Cup was important to verify skills and consolidate organizational solidity, but Germany wasted the opportunity without thinking too much about the meaning. In addition, five of the 11 starting players against Japan (Thomas Muller, Antonio Rudiger, Niklas Sule, Serge Gnabry and Jamal Musiara) did not appear against Oman. Players who had never worked together made it to the World Cup Finals.
Coach Flick’s leadership has also been put on the table. Despite allowing Japan to level the score and score a comeback goal, there was no tactical change and they were desperate to increase the number of forwards. Niklas Fürkrug, Mario Götze, Yusuf Moukoko and others were introduced one after another, but failed to create any particular change. Hürkrug and Moukoko were selected players with no international experience who made their debuts in the A-match against Oman. It was Götze’s first appearance in an A match since November 2017 in five years. It seems they didn’t expect to allow Japan to take the lead, and they didn’t seem to have adequately prepared a “Plan B”. On the other hand, after conceding a goal in the first half, Japan coach Moriyasu switched to a back-three tactic in the second half and made the right substitutions in the right places, leading to a comeback victory. Ritsu Doan (SC Freiburg, Germany) and Takuma Asano (VfL Bochum, Germany), who scored on the matchday, were the players brought in by Moriyasu in the second half.
The German sports newspaper “Kicker” reported: “The defeat against Japan is not a bad luck. It is because the coach Flick caused the failure.” Gundogan, who scored a first-half penalty, was substituted 22 minutes into the second half when they led 1-0.
There are also rumors of remorse within the German national team. “We made it easy for them to play,” Gundogan said. I often lost it easily,” he said. “We were too inefficient. It was a disaster,” said star player Thomas Müller.
Journalist Kim Young Joon
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