Everything that can work, does work: The DFB team started the European Championship tournament with an ideal game. National coach Julian Nagelsmann does not want to dampen the euphoria after the 5:1 win against Scotland – but his players are doing that.
It was just after midnight in the Munich Arena, the witching hour, when Jamal Musiala was caught up in a ghost from the past. Musiala was sitting on a press podium because he had been named player of the match in the German national team’s 5:1 win against Scotland in their opening match of the European Championship. That was not wrong, but it would not have been wrong to choose Ilkay Gündogan or Toni Kroos. But the jury chose Musiala and as a reward he was allowed to answer questions again at a very late hour. Musiala was of course still in a great mood and even rated this game as one of his best games ever, which showed that journalists can really be mean people. Suddenly someone asked Musiala about Japan and Qatar.