You're slower to my edits than me.
Yes, but all the death stormtrooper analogies in the world means nothing unless you can take home the silverware. How many times have we seen clubs like Napoli or Roma or Inter in the past several years get jacked up about massive wins, only to lose or draw to minnows and fail out of the Scudetto race?
Goal margins are meaningless until you take home the trophy. Beating a 10-man Portugal 4-0 is pointless if you almost lose to Ghana in the next match.
Yes, this is as good as a Germany squad as they've had in eons. But unless and until they win the WC this year, all of this will have been a colossal failure.
Setting a record for four straight semifinals is great. But without a trophy, that's also a mark of epic futility on the last step. Germany needs this WC title more than anything to avoid being labeled Inter-level chokers in the final product.