EURO: Who will score for Germany?

MORAL MONEY IS INCREASINGLY SCARCE

Klose is the top scorer in the history of the German national team (71 goals in 137 matches). When striker Klose left the field in the 88th minute of the 2014 World Cup final, midfielder Mario Goetze came on to score the only goal as Germany defeated Argentina to win the championship, winning the title of best player of the match. Since then, there has been almost no sign of a striker in the Mannschaft attack.

In the four major tournaments since the 2014 World Cup, Germany have scored 21 goals. They have been eliminated in the group stage twice, reached the round of 16 once and the semi-finals once. In the four major tournaments before that, Germany have scored 50 goals, won once, reached the final once and the semi-finals the other two. What a difference!

German fans have high hopes for their team at EURO 2024

At this EURO, Germany's real strikers are Niclas Fullkrug, Maximilian Beier and Deniz Undav. If you're not a die-hard Bundesliga fan, chances are you don't know much about Undav and Beier. Fullkrug is 31 years old but has only 16 international appearances. If he gets to play, it will be his first appearance on the EURO pitch. Undav has only played for the national team twice, despite being 27. Beier has only played for the national team once! It wouldn't be surprising if neither Beier nor Undav were to play at EURO 2024. So, who will play?

GERMANY NEEDS A CENTRE STRIKER

From an attacking midfielder, "reformed" into a striker, Kai Havertz (Arsenal Club) is currently the greatest hope of the Mannschaft in the field of scoring goals. Germany also has another midfielder, Thomas Mueller, 35 years old, who scored 45 goals in 129 matches for the team. This character is too familiar. His greatest professional characteristic is that he does not play in any fixed position. It can only be said: he can stand anywhere, but will never be a real striker.

Identifying a specific position in a team is a matter of theory. But of course: position, role and work efficiency will be closely related to that initial identification. There is always a big difference between a real center and a “modified center”, which can decide the final result.

With almost unchanged squad and playing style, Germany continuously lost to Spain in the EURO 2008 final and the World Cup 2010 semi-finals. The German coach at that time, Joachim Loew, praised Spain's playing style, calling them "professors of football". That was also the Spanish team that was on its way to becoming a legend (winning 3 major tournaments in a row, from 2008 to 2012). They did not need a real striker when they went on to win the World Cup 2010 and EURO 2012. And that was the biggest influence that made the Germans follow suit, and also did not need a striker in the last ten years. This EURO is no different: if Havertz keeps scoring, then what need does Germany have for a real striker?

The problem is that German football has always been famous for its efficiency, not its flamboyance. When talking about German football, in its most successful times, it is always about specific strikers. From Gerd Mueller to Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, from Juergen Klinsmann to Miroslav Klose. Former German player Steffen Freund commented: "In the past, there was always a world- class striker scoring goals for the Mannschaft". Now it is so different, can Germany easily succeed with their "anti-traditional" characteristics?

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