The German national team goes down against Japan. After the 1:4 defeat, defender Antonio Rüdiger is also being discussed on the net.
A short video is enough to get an idea of the catastrophic state of the German national football team. After the 4:1 debacle of the DFB team against Japan in Wolfsburg, a video made the rounds on the internet, which drives many German football fans up the wall.
It shows how the Japanese scored their third goal in the 90th minute, which sealed the embarrassing German defeat. After Robin Gosens had lost the ball badly, Germany’s centre-back Antonio Rüdiger was the last DFB player to simply stop in the centre circle and refused to move backwards.
Only when Takuma Asano passed Rüdiger did he start to move. Clearly too late and even then not at top speed. Rüdiger is still overtaken by his team-mate Joshua Kimmich, who started far behind him. Bochum’s Asano then scores unchallenged after a cross from Takefusa Kubo to make it 3:1.
Rüdiger’s subterranean defensive behaviour caused great astonishment in the net. The scene was widely circulated on Twitter. The video caused bewilderment and above all anger among fans and users. “Antonio Rüdiger seems to have given up hope. He’s not even running anymore,” wrote user “Fußballfc”. Others accused the defender of the Spanish top club Real Madrid of refusing to work.
The 30-year-old did not make a good impression beforehand either. Rüdiger did not radiate any confidence. In our DFB individual critique, he received a grade of 5. Much more is expected from a man of his class.
New DFB defence a disaster
In addition to Rüdiger, BVB defender Nico Schlotterbeck (grade 6) was particularly disappointing in the new defensive formation of the seriously ailing national coach Hansi Flick, who deployed Schlotterbeck at left-back and Joshua Kimmich on the right side of defence. The goals conceded by Junya Ito (11th minute) and Ayase Ueda (22nd) in the first half were preceded by clear mistakes by the newly formed defence in front of 24,980 spectators, as was the case with Japan’s third goal by World Cup scorer Takuma Asano (90th) and the final goal by Ao Tanaka (90.+2).