Joachim Löw had to improvise on Sunday a little bit. Due to pain at the root of the tooth, he saw himself in the short term, compelled to do so, an emergency physician practice. And due to a control event on the next Morning, the coach had to postpone his trip to the meeting place of the German national football team a couple of hours. In the meantime, but everything is back in order. “The pain is gone over night,” said Löw on Tuesday.
the problems of his team are disappearing over night, is not rather to be expected. For the national team, a new era begins this Wednesday (20.45 clock, RTL) with the test game against Serbia, according to löw’s statement of account. To put it bluntly: The world Cup 2014 is now – without Mats Hummels, Jerome Boateng and Thomas Müller finally reached the end. Already at the meeting in Wolfsburg, Germany, Oliver Bierhoff, has noted, the Manager of the national team: “It was an awakening. It really is a reboot.“
The national coach expects his team nothing more than a Kickstart. A lot of time to adjust, to for the deposed world Champions on Sunday the qualification for Euro 2020 begins – and the same with the hard game: In Amsterdam, the national team meets the Netherlands, against löw’s Team in the fall in the Nations League, only one point from two Games has brought. Of the meetings this week, the game in Holland is, of course, “what has a greater value” as the national coach said. “Everything is aligned a bit to the game against the Netherlands.”
Löw calculated setbacks
The Serbs should ideally mimic the perfect sparring partner for the game on Sunday. “This is a highly technical team that is similar to from your game system to the Dutch,” said Löw. The Test must, to some extent, do not replace the training sessions that the coach has this week. On Monday, the team came together, many of the players were to be the only renewable, on Tuesday, the first and only joint Training. “I would like to have a couple of units more,” said Löw. Not only because, with Niklas Stark, Lukas Klostermann and Maximilian Eggestein three New in the line-up, but also because the coach wants to see from his Team in the future, a different face.
The new team just needs to find quickly, you should also play much faster than last. “More speed, more momentum, more determination, which are important issues,” said Löw. Looking back on the past months including the world Cup, he has identified three serious shortcomings: After ball losses, the team has not defended well; if the enemy is a Standards, they did not look good, and the shift has not convinced to win the game after the Ball him: “We had a lot of possession, but little pace to the gate.”
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Löw sees “some risk”
The interpretation that the national coach turns the game to his team on the left, would still be inadmissible. “Our game is not thrown completely overboard,” said Löw. He was not a Trainer, the wool is left to the opponent aware of the Ball. “We need to have possession of the ball, we want to continue to operate, but with more pace in the actions.” This is also why Löw has to make personnel decisions by wrestling, which he referred to now even as the only alternative. Of course, be associated with the absence of experienced players like Hummels, Boateng, and Müller is a risk of setbacks, you have to take into account. Nevertheless, Löw does not want to muddle somehow through the qualification, but you scores. “We have a very, very young team,” said the national coach. “But my confidence in the players is great.”
