According to the local media, German footballers gave a solid performance in Wednesday’s preparatory match with the Czech Republic, given that they won the home win 1-0 in Leipzig in a combined line-up without most of the supports, in which they will probably never play together again. The media charged the coach Jaroslav Šilhavý with a weak offensive phase, and the goalkeeper Jiří Pavlenka earned praise.
“Against the hard-working but offensively innocuous Czech team, Joachim Löw’s selection scored a 1-0 victory, which is more eloquent than the result suggests,” the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung said in an online version.
He praised the first team account of the German team this year and, among other things, the performance of the newcomers in the defense of Philipp Max and Ridle Baku, who “never once caused the feeling that the ball would hit them at the foot”.
“National team coach Joachim Löw saved his stars in an unimportant preparatory match and sent a B-team to the pitch. It was a national team that will probably never play together in this line-up. The team prospered and Germany won after a solid performance.” added the letter Die Welt to his website.
The four-time world champions were awarded mainly for their performance in the opening half, when Luca Waldschmidt scored the winning goal in the 13th minute. “The Czech game with a large number of mistakes showed a lack of wrestling practice among some of their footballers,” the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pointed out.
“In the first half, the Germans all too easily created about half a dozen goal chances. The home leadership could have been a bit higher if the players were more concentrated in the end and the excellent Jiří Pavlenka did not stand in the opponent’s goal,” added FAZ.
After the change of sides, the home favorites, according to the media, only had to check the tightest lead. “Germany continued to dictate the game without putting more pressure on the opponent’s goal,” the sport1.de server wrote.
“The Czechs now had the ball more often with the strong goalkeeper Jiří Pavlenka from Bremen, but they seldom knew what to do with it. The German defense, in which stopper Robin Koch excelled as an attentive and strong organizer, had almost no problems,” the portal added.
“Only in the final stages of the match did the Czechs get into situations where goalkeeper Kevin Trapp had to show up. Especially in the 82nd minute, the Frankfurt goalkeeper reacted excellently at Matěj Vydra’s head. For the first time this calendar year, the Germans kept a clean sheet. after the final whistle he released the song Hallelujah, “wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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