On Thursday night, while Norway sent Danish supporters back on the Danish boat with a 3-2 loss, it was time for the meeting between Jürgen Klopp and Xavi. Germany against the Netherlands, a classic. With Klopp back in the ring, this was one of the big games in the Nations League.
Although his former Liverpool player Cody Gakpo ruined Klopp’s victory celebrations with his extra-time equaliser to make it 1-1, Die Mannschaft showed that with Klopp in charge, something big could be going on again after a few years with Nagelsmann.
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“Of course, all the other information we’ve gathered is much more important to me than just holding on to a 1-0 lead right now. We’re already working on that,” Klopp begins, according to Blue News.
His short time as coach of the German team also means that the performance did not reach rock bottom for Klopp.
- “We could only scratch the surface, but I saw a lot. Counter-attacking pressure situations, I want to see a lot more of them, but there were still some there. Did I get the impression that we were even on the road to perfection? We weren’t. The worst thing that could have happened, of all the negative signs, would have been if we had played the best game of our time together today. Because then everyone else would have seemed worse,” Klopp concluded.
The Germans’ next game is against Greece on Sunday, we sense the optimism rising among the Germans with Master Klopp as national team manager.
