National soccer team
Kimmich protects Collins: Can play 100 caps
This debut fails. In his first international match, Namdi Collins is not the hopeful defender. The fucked youngster receives encouragement from the captain and the national coach.
From his own experience, Joshua Kimmich knew exactly how the young Namdi Collins had to feel. And that’s why the captain slipped into the role as a protective shield for the Frankfurt defender after the 0: 2 against Slovakia and said with a view to the defender’s further DFB career: “He can still play 100 caps.”
Like himself. Kimmich also made his debut against Slovakia over nine years ago. At lightning, thunder and heavy rain in Augsburg, the Bayern professional at the time also had a bad debt notes after the 1: 3. A few weeks later at the European Championship in France, Kimmich received confidence as a right -wing defender from national coach Joachim Löw. And since then Kimmich has been a regular. In Bratislava he made his 102nd international match.
Nagelsmann: “He didn’t have a super good day”
The future will have to dismiss whether the 21-year-old Collins can also go the path of Kimmich at the time. In the present, the youngster must first hope that Julian Nagelsmann will not let him fall again. “He didn’t have a super -good day,” said the national coach Gnädig and assured: “I will not blame the player who debut.”
And yet it is now an exciting question of who will play in Cologne against Northern Ireland on Sunday (8:45 p.m./RTL) in Cologne. It is not just about Collins, but also about the Kimmich, which has just been put back into midfield.
Collins left the stadium in Bratislava, in which he had only lost the European Championship final against England with the German U21 juniors at the end of June 2: 3 after extra time. He trotted to the team bus without a word, but received prominent encouragement.
“I think he’s the last one it was,” said Kimmich: “Especially when you make a debut, new, you are a bit more dependent on the team that you can get into a functioning troop.” Kimmich recommended the kinked Collins: “I hope that he doesn’t make himself a big head. Because he was no worse than all of us.”
Nagelsmann’s encouragement – and where was Rüdiger?
Nagelsmann also tried to protect his 19th debutant, even if he was a defensive weak point against the fast Leo Sauer. However, the national coach, however, complained above all the lack of help for the internationally still immature of Collins. In the defense, there were also players around the youngster, “who have an incredible number of caps and play football at top level and can support him”.
Vice captain and defense chief Antonio Rüdiger, who was not in the picture in both goals conceded, was particularly allowed to feel addressed and defense. In this constitution, the 32-year-old from Real Madrid could still be tight with 100 international matches.
Emergency solution Mittelstädt – and a somersault back?
Rüdiger will surely be allowed to reappear against Northern Ireland. But who plays next to him? Does Collins (immediately) get a second chance? Against the Slovaks, Nagelsmann keeps up to move the left foot Maximilian Mittelstädt to the right after the break.
“Of course it’s not my traditional position. But we don’t have many options,” said the Stuttgart. The 28-year-old was not totally unprepared: “I had already played it a bit during training.”
In the acute printing situation after the false start to the World Cup qualifier, Nagelsmann could also take a somersault backwards and put Kimmich on the right again against the northern Irish. “This is always an option, I said that all the time,” said Nagelsmann before traveling to Cologne.
dpa
Source: Stern
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