If you were to ask me to describe in simple terms Italy’s performance in their round of 16 match against Switzerland on Saturday, my answer would be Not Good. In fact, it was very nearly verging on Bad. All jokes aside, Italy abjectly sucked on Saturday on the same pitch where their calcio forebears won...
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Four observations from Germany’s narrow escape against Switzerland
Germany’s soft underbelly Scotland never really managed to threaten Germany in the host’s opening match of the tournament. But Hungary threatened multiple times and really made Germany sweat for long periods of the game, exposing a potential soft underbelly of Germany. In that sense, Switzerland merely continued where Hungary left off by getting at Germany,...
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Switzerland 1-1 Germany: Initial reactions and observations
Initial reactions and observations Germany just about scraped by there. Julian Nagelsmann was on the verge of his entire project being called a false dawn. Thankfully, Niclas Füllkrug saved the Germans some blushes after coming on. Nagelsmann’s distaste for true strikers — a quality he also showed at Bayern Munich — nearly came back to...