The evening started with a season warning: a big storm was coming, the game was delayed in the beginning and perhaps delaying the goals.
This should have been the night of Joshua Kimich.
Not only the German captain made his 100th appearance with the national team. Hey assisted in the first goal of the match played in the coalition area of his home stadium, Bavaria Munich.
But Portugal had other schemes of opponents and stole the show with a 2–1 win to reach the finals of the Nations League, leading to another tooth in the hopes of Germany’s resurrection.
100th game but not at 100%
After the match, Kimich said, “We need to understand that if we are not at 100%, it is difficult against any opponent,” Kimich said after the match, referring to the discovery of the missing players as Jamal Musiala and Antonio Ridiger due to injuries to Germany’s leading players.
After the first half, it was Kimich, which offers a praise pass to Florian interests to score Germany’s first goal in the 48th minute.
“Even after we went up 1-0, it did not see me as we wanted to reach the final,” Kimich said
“We need to be honest with ourselves, we were not enough active on the ball and without it.
Despite the defeat, Kimich believes that the team is “more consolidated than one and a half years ago” and is more than the current situation.
Kimich started her international career in 2016 in 2016, two years after the German World Cup victory in 2016. While he picked up the now-Defact Confederation Cup in 2017 with the national team, Germany has experienced many disappointing tourists ever since.
The 30 -year -old is the 14th player to reach 100 caps with the men’s national team. But he is the only German player with more than 100 appearances who have not won the World Cup.
“I have experienced many high and climb with the German national team,” Hey said in the first week.
“Of course, you always have the goal of winning at least one title, we go to every tournament, especially as Germany, to compete for the title.”
But Kimich and Germany will have to wait longer to finish their trophy pass.
Duality captain
While it was Captain’s 100th match, which was wearing a German shirt, Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo dwarfed the German milestone by playing his 220th game for his nation.
After the match, Portugal coach Roberto Martinez said, “Congratulations to Kimich. He has played 100 games, it’s a milestone, it’s amazing.”
“But when you are talking about a player like Cristiano Ronaldo, he is doubled. It is difficult to put in words,” said Martinez.
In fact, it was 40 years old, who put his own drawwatt finally.
Ronaldo had lost all its previous meetings against Germany, but it was the Portuguese captain, who scored the victorious goal in the 68th minute, Francisco Conscao, five minutes after the match tied the match with a surprising curling shot from the distance.
Ronaldo is used to beg in the spotlight. As soon as his name was announced, stadium cheers and jerse exploded. Naturally, Cheers came away from the fans of the house and from the jerseen.
But it is among the Jeres that Ronaldo seems to be the most flourishing.
Ronaldo had earlier missed some chances in the game, playing boys and whistles from the house crowd. Once he rotated the game, it turned into silence. His goal against Germany was his 137th for Portugal, a record in men’s international football.
“This is human, when you win, the next day you are less hungry. But it’s not so with Cristiano,” Martinez said.
The striker was sub -stated to appreciate the applause of the distant crowd in only the 90th minute as he moved his country to another Nations League finals.
With Ronaldo from the pitch, Germany pushed hard for the last minute par with a counter-atac. But it was Kimich that missed an important pass that brought the house crowd to a sigh.
The special night to honor the German captain turned to another night of praise for Cristiano Ronaldo.
Edited by: ZAC Crellin
