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Matthäus sharply criticizes Bierhoff – and also Flick!

Matthäus sharply criticizes Bierhoff – and also Flick!

Lothar Matthäus sharply criticizes the group stage after Germany lost the World Cup. The 1990 World Champion sees Oliver Bierhoff as the main person responsible. But Hansi Flick also made mistakes.

After the disastrous end at the World Cup, the DFB is currently being criticized from all sides. Lothar Matthäus also took a stand and didn’t give the association a good hair and especially DFB managing director Oliver Bierhoff. Hansi Flick also got his fat from the former world champion.

Lothar Matthäus is a declared fan of national coach Hansi Flick. After the (again) embarrassing end in the group phase, Matthäus now also criticized Flick.

“The team didn’t play together and that’s a mistake I have to blame the coach for, although I’ve never criticized Hansi Flick before,” Matthäus explained sky.

The 61-year-old still thinks a coaching debate is a mistake: “For me he’s the right coach, but he still did things in the first game and in preparation that maybe should have been done differently.”

Matthäus criticized Flick for the lack of consistency in filling the right-back and nine positions. In his analysis of Flicks and the team, however, Matthäus did not want to be too negative. “In terms of sport, it was a different elimination than four years ago in Russia. We played three games badly there. This year I would say two and a half games were okay,” said Matthäus.

Matthäus sees Bierhoff as the main person responsible for the World Cup debacle and the trend of the German national team

The 1990 world champion, on the other hand, criticized the association and its leadership much more severely. Matthäus identified managing director Oliver Bierhoff as the main person responsible.

“Of course he is also responsible, he never scored a point. We not only played three tournaments shamefully, but also two Nations League group phases, there were other goals set,” said Matthäus.

In the debate about the “One Love” bandage, Matthäus also did not attest the DFB manager a good figure: “Of course, Oliver Bierhoff is in demand because he has not consistently stopped the pressure, the unrest that has come from outside. And not only he, but also the president and those responsible from the DFB left the coach and the team out in the rain.”

He himself took Bierhoff in the crossfire for the choice of team quarters. The DFB quartered the team in a hotel a good 100 kilometers from Doha. Matthäus missed the “world championship mood” there. “That was also the case in 2018,” he added. “Jogi Löw wanted to go to Sochi, Oliver Bierhoff got his way and went to a sad hotel in Moscow, far from the beaten track.”

Bierhoff at the DFB before the end

Oliver Bierhoff has not only been sharply criticized by Lothar Matthäus in the past few days. According to current reports, Bierhoff could even lose his job in the DFB.

The director of the German national team, reports the picture, will no longer work with the senior national team in the future, but will devote himself to his tasks around the academy. DFB Vice President Hans-Joachim Watzke should be more involved.

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This article was originally published on 90min.de as.

Source: Stern

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