The start of the world championship is is approaching and there is some friendly matches which have already been played and will be played in next few days. From yesterday games I would point out some interesting results :
- England 2 - 1 Nigeria
- Austria 2 - 1 Germany
- Sweden 0 - 0 Denmark
- Belgium 0 - 0 Portugal
- Iceland 2 - 3 Norway
- France 3 - 1 Italy
We can see that Germany is lost and also Iceland, which may be a surprise, but in friendly matches when coaches are entitled to at least six changes of players everything is possible. France is play good game and win convincingly against Italy with early score from Samuel Umtiti in 8 min, followed with penalty score by Antoine Griezmann in 29 min and last score by Ousmane Dembele in 63 min. Leonardo Bonucci is score for Italy.
Today we have few more games but just few interesting., Brazil is playing against Croatia on neutral ground (England) and this should be good game to watch since both teams have very good players and second interesting game is Spain vs Switzerland.
You can't really judge these matches as these are just friendly matches , win or lose there isn't going to be any effect on the team. We have seen in past also coaches experimenting new players , different formation in matches like these. If germany is underperforming in their group matches then only we can say they seem to be lost
Good players are on the bench waiting for world cup games, why to risk and put good players in the friendly game. They can get injured, and its better for them to rest after long season. That's why I don't like to bet on friendly games, first squad is never full, players don't give their maximum, and it's tricky to take money on friendly matches.
I don't worry about Germany in group stage, they will win south Korea and Sweden easily, against Mexico it will be interesting to see what will they do, I wouldn't underestimate Mexico.
Germany is one of the favorites for 1 place, maybe this is just a strategy, like they lost game, they are weak, but when they show up on world cup they will make some miracles.