He should be benched and Hummels should take his place.

Well tbh even the coach thinks that it is a good thing to make a turk into the captain of the GERMAN national team so you can’t really ask for natinal pride.

Offside is an action where a player has only one opposition player as the last line of defense because there need to be at least two players as the last line of defense in front of you , they could be two outfield players or one outfield player and the goalkeeper in the last line of defense in front of you which in that case you are not offside. I hope I have explained it well!

Football can be quantified that’s the reason we have stats. And if it wasn’t for the refeere Messi would of have gone home against the Netherlands they didn’t have a smooth sailing so to speak.

I never said he did. I said he dominated the World Cup, which, along with winning it, will get you the Ballon d’Or.

I am saying if you had that many penalties in a world cup and so few open play goals which even tap ins are often harder to do than a penalty you can’t claim that you were some good goalscorer or that you particularly dominate it. And you can’t equate a world cup with 3 trophies.

I’m not reading the rest of your stat obsessed nonsense. You’re reducing the game down purely to numbers because you don’t understand it. You’re missing the point.

When you try to find the best player in a given sport you have to quantify his performances so that the award is objective you are just saying that you don’t like stats because they would trump your claim that Messi deserved it. And the fact that you didn’t even read them at all and call it stat obsessed nonsense shows that you are going at this from an emotional point of view and not a logical point of view you are just showing your extreme bias for Messi. Furthermore the fact that you say that "you are reducing the game purely to numbers because you don’t understand it shows that you don’t understand the stats and not that I don’t understand the game because those stats shows the direct contribution of both players and since they are not in your favour you discard them for “more beautiful play” which doesn’t matter in a collective sport and especially when you try to say how a good player was if he didn’t have a good direct impact.

And in the same world cup he had 5 or 6 penalties so why are you making it as of he scored spectacular hard goals mind you a penalty has a 0.77 koefficient of being able to score it at least that’s the bundesliga metric I think in the world cup it is I think 0.8 or 0.85. Not to mention that if it wasn’t for the refeere he would have lost against the Netherlands. The travesty is that the ballon d’or criteria changes to suit Ronaldo and Messi otherwise they wouldn’t have won all these ballon d’or. You can see the robbery in the 2020/21 season that they created an award specifically to make it easier to give it to Messi the top striker or the top goalscorer trophy whatever it’s name was.

Thank you for providing the Post-Match Statements Jules!

Müller with a goal and 2 assists to his name in 27 minutes. He should start ahead of Musiala in my opinion and play next to Kane.

Yep, he was decent enough not to make big mistakes in defence but not someone spectacular.

He is not a really good defender but he is decent enough to not make big mistakes. He is a second coming of Lahm in terms of attacking plays in right back not as a defender. He is a little bit slow to play in that position because in modern days you have to be fast when you play as a fullback because the tendency today is also to help the team in attack so you have to be fast enough to run the whole pitch from your goal to the opposition’s goal and to be able to quickly turn in defence in case you are needed. And he plays as a deep lying playmaker and not as a CM but as a DM with not having defensive duties as a typical destroyer DM has but of orchestrating the play.

I don’t get it why can’t Müller play together with him and play either Wirtz and Musiala in the wings or Wirtz and Brandt or Brandt and Havertz or Wirtz and Hoffman or Musiala and Sane or Wirtz and Sane or any other combination of these 5 players. It’s like coaches have problems with him playing as a cam or second striker he is in the last years of his career and he has still a lot to give and can be quite dangerous especially with Füllkrug taking defenders with him and opening space for Müller to score. I just wish he scores at least 5 goals with Germany because he will reach 50 goals and become the 3rd highest goalscorer of Germany ever.

A Kimmich Gundogan double pivot is really bad, neither of them can defend good and both like to play more in the attack you risk making your team really bad defensively and with Germany’s defense being this bad, I don’t think that it would be a wise decision to play them both.

I don’t get it why doesn’t he play Müller as a second striker with Füllkrug spearheading the attack.