Key difference beeing france having CB depth and offensive options
germans have 0 strikers with gomez out. Khedira was missed alot cause Gundogan wasent there either.
Italy was missing all its differencemakers in the midfield and up front with Verratti, Marchisio, De Rossi, Rossi and Balotelli out.
they were allready extremely set back, and you want to take the centrebacks aswel ?
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For the quality that it has, france is seriously underperforming as a team. Not as much as belgium whom have fewer quality and were twice as bad as a team, but still.
They are also young.
A complete selection of this france (with benz, fullbacks, players growing), and a solid gameplan, this france could be the closest thing to 08-12 spain in terms of domminance
germans have 0 strikers with gomez out. Khedira was missed alot cause Gundogan wasent there either.
Italy was missing all its differencemakers in the midfield and up front with Verratti, Marchisio, De Rossi, Rossi and Balotelli out.
they were allready extremely set back, and you want to take the centrebacks aswel ?
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For the quality that it has, france is seriously underperforming as a team. Not as much as belgium whom have fewer quality and were twice as bad as a team, but still.
They are also young.
A complete selection of this france (with benz, fullbacks, players growing), and a solid gameplan, this france could be the closest thing to 08-12 spain in terms of domminance
having to play a SF with 4th/5th CB option and brain fart-prone koscielny with a complete noob who made his debut in the quarter finals was far from reassuring even with no proper CF for Germany .The full backs are old and washed up , Payet offered no cover for Evra , Pogba was played out of position in a 2 man midfield when Germany had up to 5 in the middle at some points with Ozil and Draxler cutting inside etc....
If anyhting it's Germany that should have exploited these shortcomings , instead they were reduced to meaningless possession and didn't create any dangerous chances until they were down 0-2 .
Like you said , this team could only get better in the next two years .
PS : Khedira's absence is being greatly exaggerated imo . Germany dominated the midfield with ease without him and France didn't offer much resistance ... It's not like Sami was gonna offer some defense splitting passes or make some unstoppable forward runs that France would've had no clue how to deal with .
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