Talking about an early final is probably risky. Especially in a tournament like the European, where predictions usually turn out to be waste paper and upsets are the order of the day. However, next Friday’s challenge at Stuttgart will pit the two teams that, up to now, have given the impression of greater consistency and solidity. Once upon a time, one would have said experience. Today, no. At least not in the Spanish case. And yes, because as far as the Roja, It cannot be said that the X Factor, the secret of success, is the habit of its champions to play such important matches. The Germans are certainly more experienced and experienced, but both against Swiss that in front of the Denmark, they went into enormous difficulty, unlike the Spanish national team who, even when they found themselves one goal down against Georgia, has always given the impression of having the situation constantly under control. In the last two decades, the Spanish and German schools have become very close. The adventure of Pep Guardiola on the bench of the Bavaria Monaco It was also used to export to Germania the Catalan predilection for ball possession which, not only did not prove counterproductive to gegenpressing, but rather became the perfect complement to it, as demonstrated by Bayern taken from Hansi Flick. Similarly, in recent months, Luis Dela Fuente he changed the score of his national team, partly giving up possession because he realized that his team would have been more dangerous if it had equipped itself with a good dose of verticality.
Spain-Germany, curiosities and statistics
Yamal and Kroos, Spain-Germany is history
And so, the most obvious difference between the two main candidates for the title of European champion has little to do, despite the different tactical nuances, with the blackboard and a lot to do with the identity card of the interpreters to whom the two coaches have entrusted the fate of their national team. Spain of the very young Lamine Yamal (16 years old) and Nico Williams (21) in fact, it will be contrasted with the Germania Of Toni Kroos (34 years old) and captain Ilkay Gundogan (33) who, to be honest, are not even the oldest players in their team considering their 38 years of age. Manuel Neuer. On the one hand, the bet of From the source (who has called well 9 under 25) on the inspiration of a cheeky sixteen-year-old who has only played 12 games for the national team and who, nevertheless, just as he is doing with Barça, is beating all the records of precocity in European football. On the other hand, the awareness of Nagelsmann who understood that, to enhance the qualities of his twenty-one year old crack (Jamal Musiala), he was in desperate need of it Kroos took back the reins of the Team. The task was entrusted to the German director (one of the eleven over 30s of the Germania) – who last year announced his retirement from the national team and a few weeks ago his retirement from Real Madrid – he gladly accepted, retracing his steps to compete and win the European Championship at home, the only important title missing from his splendid collection (34). His main problem is that Lamine – a man who has won only one trophy (the Liga of last year with the Barça) – has every intention of sending him into early retirement as early as next Friday.
