Comment: A victory of mentality and a signal from Müller

From the target return to the world lit, Oliver Bierhoff had spoken during the week and that you want to further exploit the high-beam spirit under the new national coach Hansi Flick in September. If one takes the reactions of the 25,000 approved fans in the Hamburg Volksparkstadion after the final whistle for a scale, this is the national team on Friday with the difficult to develop 2: 1 victory in the World Cup qualifier against Romania succeeded.

With Applaus, the viewers honored the tireless stops and the body language of the DFB selection and looked benevolent across the footballish inadequacies and many misforts. It was under the bottom line a victory of mentality and the unity. These virtues had classified Flick in advance as a prerequisite for success.

Still has a lot to do: Hansi Flick. Imago Images / Matthias Koch

With the fourth victory in the fourth game under the direction of the new national trainer, the national team continued their clear course towards WM and could already solve the ticket for the tournament in Qatar on Monday in Northern Mazedonia. Four victories in a row, which made a German team last in the fall of 2017, when she was as an exemplary world champion suited the Czech Republic, Norway, Northern Ireland and Azerbaijan, and actually embodied the world s top of Bierhoff.

Flick underpins with the installation his maxim

Until then, the work victory against the World Rank Lists-42. Romania open, lie for flick in the remaining 13 months to the tournament start still a further way and much detail work. In the defensive, Antonio Rüdiger and Thilo Kehrer presented himself not only at the counter-inflow unusual. And the offensive game was overshadowed over long stretches of inaccuracies, misunderstandings and futile attempts to crack the Romanian defense bulwark. Flicks reformed team still needs time and games to find and consolidate. This is not surprising and certainly no reason to worry.

Flick had underpinned with the establishment of his maxim that under his leadership the performance principle counts and there is up to manuel new no set players. The captain and undisputed Stammkeeper lacked this time injury. Otherwise, Flick sent the same eleven to the race, which a month ago in Stuttgart Armenia with 6-0 immander, so with Marco Reus instead of returnees Thomas Müller, who first had to settle with a bank place.

Müller took the competition according to his comprehension exemplary, when he caused a fresh wind, first brilliantly initiating a large chance of substitute Kai Hanctz and later achieved the 2-1. With this, Müller put the signal hoped for, and managed the basis that he could back in the starting eleven on Monday.