Germany beat Scotland 5-1 in the opening match of the Euro Cup

Germany gave an exhibition at the Munich Football Arena for the first date of Group A (also made up of Hungary and Switzerland) against a Scotland that promised much more than it ended up delivering. The opening match of the Euro Cup ended 5-1 with high individual levels and a performance that elevates the winner among the favorites to win the most important national team competition in Europe.

Far from the doubts that loomed in his country, the owner of the house had a start worthy of being a candidate on his own soil. From the first seconds, Germany warned with a heads-up from Florian Wirtz blocked by goalkeeper Angus Gunn. The great figure of Bayer LeverkusenBundesliga champion, He had his revenge after 9 minutes and was infallible. A change of front by Toni Kroos enabled Joshua Kimmich, and he did the same with the offensive midfielder, who shot first to break the resistance of the goalkeeper who plays for Norwich City, in the second division of English football.

If Kroos’s pass had been a delight at the beginning of the play, what happened with Ilkay Gündogan left few adjectives to describe it. The man of Barcelona caught the Scottish bottom in full retreat and delivered a magnificent deep delivery to Kai Havertz. The attacker was not selfish because against the rival team he gave the ball to a better positioned player. Jamal Musialathat made it 2-0 in Munich at 19′.

Germany will face Hungary on the next date (REUTERS/Leonhard Simon)

The security of the result gave greater peace of mind to Die Mannschaft in view of a Scotland that closed the initial stage without arrivals under Manuel Neuer’s three posts and with 10 men. About the last quarter of an hour, Ryan Porteous committed a hard strike against Gündogan’s right ankle and the French referee, Clément Turpin, He received a penalty followed by expulsion at the request of the VAR, led by his compatriot François Letexier. Havertz was in charge of scoring the 3-0 to go to the locker room with the matter on track.

In the final part, the German coach, Julian Nagelsmann, avoided taking risks because he brought in Pascal Grob in place of Robert Andrich, who had been reprimanded. On the other side, they took out their only forward, Che Adams, for the entry of center back Grant Hanley to prevent a bigger rout. With those changes, the game began to end. Although not the Teutonic voracity, which reached 4-0 based on Musiala’s intelligence. One of the figures made a diagonal pass that she tried to be for. Gundoganbut he crossed into the path of the ball and came in front Niclas Füllkrug at the opening of the area to trigger a shot into the corner. A few moments later, she billed twice, but They annulled the action due to a correct offside.

The visit reached the goal of honor courtesy of Antonio Rüdiger against and the response took place in the final seconds with Emre Can’s 5-1 through a close shot from mid-distance.

With this result, Germany He extended his positive streak to five games without losing and could take a key step towards qualifying for the round of 16 against Hungary in Stuttgart. In a different sense, Scotland expanded its negative mark with one victory in the last 10 games (6 losses and 3 draws) and will seek to turn this situation around against Switzerland in Cologne. Both duels will take place this Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. (Argentine time) and 4:00 p.m., respectively.

Germany emerged as a candidate against Scotland (REUTERS/Michaela Stache)

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE EURO CUP

The competition is made up of six groups of four countries each, in which the first two in each zone will qualify for the round of 16, added to the four best third parties. This instance of direct elimination in a single match will be played from June 29 to July 2. He July 5 and 6 the quarters will take place. He 9 and 10 The two semi-finals will be played and The definition is stipulated for July 14 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium starting at 4 p.m. (Argentine time). It is worth remembering, the last champion is Italythat had beaten England on penalties in Wembley.

Euro 2024 groups

The following will be added to the strongholds of Berlin and Munich, the latter where Bayern Munich is home: Cologne Stadium (Cologne), Signal Iduna Park (Dortmund), Duesseldorf ArenaFrankfurt Arena, Arena AufSchalke (Gelsenkirchen), Leipzig Stadium, Stuttgart Arena and Volksparkstadion (Hamburg).

Without a doubt, the B Group is he Death Group because they share it Spain, Croatia, Italy and Albania. The last champion will face the Red Fury (winner in 1964, 2008 and 2012) and the Balkan team, which never surpassed the threshold of the quarterfinals in its entire historybut at the same time comes from being runner-up in the world in 2018 and took third place in the 2022 World Cup. A priori, the Albanian team, which has the Argentine Pablo Zabaleta in the coaching staff of Brazilian coach Sylvinho, is running from behind in search of the crash.

Another detail to follow closely in the Euro Cup has involved Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese figure will face his sixth participation (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021), he already won the contest eight years ago, He is the footballer with the greatest number of matches played (25) and the all-time top scorer with 14 screams.

TRAINING:

Germany: Manuel Neuer; Joshua Kimmich, Antonio Rudiger, Jonathan Tah, Maximilian Mittlelstadt; Toni Kroos, Robert Andrich; Jamal Musiala, Ílkay Gündogan, Florian Wirtz; Kai Havertz. DT: Julian Nagelsmann.

Scotland: Angus Gunn; Anthony Ralston, Ryan Porteous, Jack Hendry, Kieran Tierney, Andrew Robertson; Scott McTominay, Ryan Christie, John McGinn, Callum McGregor; Che Adams. DT:Steve Clarke

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Stadium: Munich Football Arena