Germany's Quest to Not Embarrass Itself, the WC26+NL24-25 Thread

yeah for CFs everyone is productive...........who remembers when clowns like Low, Voller, Flick, Bierhoff, DFB, German media, all cried....

"Where are the German CFs??? We have ZERO ZERO ZERO CFs!!!"



fastforward when given chances
-Kleindienst=2 goals in 3 games
-Undav=3 goals and 1 assist in 5 games.......has scored in every XI.
-Fullkrug=14 goals and 2 assists in 22 games
Total=19 goals and 3 assists in 30 games.......more impressive when realizes that good chunk of Fullkrug caps=SUB and not XI. So yeah the CFs have been very productive when given chances.

and interestingly enough 3/3 have won some top scorers awards
-Fullkrug=won 1BL top scorer
-Undav=won Belgian 1st top scorer
-Kleindienst=won 2BL top scorer

the fact they are all productive shows that this whole World Class or Elite vs BUST mentality was always as dumb as they get. You don't need such a player just someone who fits the team and that can score that's it. If one day emerges a World Class or Elite CF and that player is ready for SNT then they can be the main focus but for now, make due with what you got should ALWAYS have been the motto and what we got was always enough but the whole DFB was just being stupid.

Nagelsmann pre-match actually complained that Kleindienst although a good CF that he was tooooo much of a team player and that he wanted him to be more greedy, LOL. And then he scored brace and lead the line well!!!!

whoscored XI of NL M1 of the International Break
CB Rudiger, AM/W Trio of Havertz, Musiala, Wirtz and CF Kleindienst

5 Germany players and 2 Bayern players in @WhoScored's UEFA Nations League Team of the matchday pic.twitter.com/j3gs4wtzXP

— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) November 17, 2024

Havertz continues to show reality................he's better off playing off a CF then himself being the CF. Its always been clear but too many coaches REFUSED to see it and forced him at CF for too long. Nagelsmann almost did it aka continue with Havertz at CF too but he retracted from doing so...glad he did.


its interesting to see that Voller who bitched about 0 CFs for YEARS, also this week praising the CFs that are emerging in younger YNT levels. He looked particularly impressed with Tresoldi who lead the line vs Denmark U21 friendly. There are loads of promising CFs emerging too like Beier, Woltemade, Lemperle, Moukoko, Tresoldi, Topp, Downs, Ansah, Pejcinovic, Weiper, Moerstedt, Brunner, Stange etc not gonna name them all, LOL. I mean even a U21 eligible Harres that has less hype scored his 1st 1BL goal recently too. Nevermind the older options like Ducksch, Nmecha, Berisha, Burkardt, etc. The way German CFs, the older, the more experienced the better the options they are.