Julian Nagelsmann immediately showed the straight away through a supposedly simple World Cup qualification group in the first training session to his national soccer players. “We definitely noticed one thing: Dominant and showing that we want to win every game. Don’t give the opponent a second feeling that he has a chance,” said Karim Adeyemi in the DFB camp in Herzogenaurach.
Look ahead: Julian Nagelsmann
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The probably trickiest of a total of six qualifiers arrives at the beginning – in Bratislava against Slovakia on Thursday (8:45 p.m./ARD). “It will be a tough game, they have many players with international experience,” said central defender Jonathan Tah about number 52 of the FIFA world rankings. “It will be intense and maybe also emotional.”
According to the disappointing Nation League final tournament, from the point of view of Bayern professionals does not have to be changed so much. “It’s about small details that have to be adjusted, little things,” he emphasized. “The games will be good for implementing things directly. We don’t have much time and have to deliver immediately. I think we will do it well.”
The national team wants to mercilessly pull through their tactics, also on Sunday in Cologne against Northern Ireland and anyway against the third opponent of Luxembourg. “It is about: what do we want to bring on the pitch? What do we want to play?” Said Tah.
It will be crucial to “get our basics in, that will be the foundation”, “independent” of the respective line -up. “Then we look forward to one or the other back,” said Tah. The injured Marc-André Ter Stegen, Jamal Musiala, Kai Havertz, Nico Schlotterbeck and Tim Kleindienst are missing in Nagelsmann’s 23 Squad.
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