by FCB&Paulaner » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:46 pm
A couple of things here:
- I don't understand the added value of this tournament. these players will hardly play anytime in the next 10 years in this setup, so instead of trying someone new in the squad, you play a C team for what..
- Mertesacker should never, ever, ever play for the NT. Use the time until 2014 to find someone, he shouldn't even be on the bench, because somehow he manages to get playing time.
- No matter how average our team was, the result should have been avoided, and Low could have shown he is a good coach (exactly with this team), even Kazachstan could have played better. Disaster!
- having the current talented squad (Team A) everyone except Low can win at least two tournaments. Just to refresh your memory Bayern-Juve aka Germany-Italy and bayern - Barcelona aka Germany - Spain (without Messi here) very very different games with almost same squads.
- I really hope for some miracle in he WC 2014, as Low is not the guy.
So what I read from this game is:
average team and average coach = average to poor results
great team and average coach = above average results (the case with Germany all these years)
great team and great coach (JH for example) = world champions and European champions!