Manuel Neuer slips up again, but Julian Nagelsmann demonstratively stands behind his goalkeeper. The national coach also opts for the rhetorical forward defense after the test against the Greeks.
The DFB spokesman summed up the performance as “outstanding” and “absolutely exceptional”. And he was not exaggerating, because he was not referring to the national team, which had won 2:1 against Greece, but to the audience in Mönchengladbach’s Borussia Park. If the choice of the Man of the Match had happened that evening, the so-called twelfth man would have deserved the prize. His loyalty did not just consist of letting the colorful flags fly as in the folk song.