The 3-1 win against the USA in the first international match under national coach Julian Nagelsmann also made Lothar Matthäus want more. Returnee Mats Hummels also gets a good grade from him.
Lothar Matthäus also liked Julian Nagelsmann’s successful debut as national coach of the national soccer team. “There was really a lot of flow in the game, a lot of joy, a compactness – that’s what makes playing football fun,” said the record national player after the 3-1 friendly win in Hartford against hosts USA on the TV channel RTL: “The result completely reflects the course of the game clearly reflected.”
The former DFB captain was particularly pleased that the national team was not unsettled by the 0-1 deficit caused by former Dortmund player Christian Pulisic (28th minute). “Despite all of this, you could see that the team works, the team is willing, there is joy in the game, there are actions on the offensive. And so the team overcame this deficit with confidence,” said Matthäus.
Matthäus also praised the returnee Mats Hummels, who made his international comeback after more than two years, with a “good performance”. The Borussia Dortmund defender “had problems with speed twice”, but otherwise he “showed good positional play at the back and repeatedly tried to stimulate the game from the back”.
Source: Stern
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