Toni Kroos returned from retirement with his national squad to continue writing his name in gold letters in the history of German football. Until a few days ago, the Real Madrid midfielder started in Nagelsmann’s starting XI to face Scotland at the Allianz Arena.
With this appearance with his selection, The German added fifteen games in the Eurocup in a story which started in 2012. With this match, Kroos boasts his presence in four editions of the tournament. In the first one he played in, his nation reached the semifinals and lost to Italy by a score of 1-2. In 2016 they repeated the event but now they were eliminated by France. In the last one they only managed to advance to the Round of 16 where they were stopped by England.
Now with the home team in their favor, Die Mannschaft wants to aspire to the title and Toni Kroos has the task of being the conductor who directs the operation just as he did in his successful career at the club level where he has more than 30 titles or as he did previously with the national team where he managed to lift a Copa del Rey. World in Brazil 2014.
Kroos without margin of error
Toni Kroos showed the high level with which he will retire, giving away a match in which he achieved impressive numbers with a precision of 101 passes completed out of 102 attemptedthat is, he only failed in one of those attempts.
At 34 years old, number 8 seeks to score its first goal in the competition So far only one attendance has been recorded. The next match on the horizon for the Germans is the duel against Hungary and their last group rival will be Switzerland.
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