Whistles of the national team against Serbia – Sport

• The German national team disappointed Serbia in the first international match of the year 2019.
• Spectators express their dissatisfaction in Wolfsburg – in the ranks come many whistles.
• The national team sees their critical performances – especially in the first period.

If a spectator had attended Wednesday night in the Wolfsburg Arena at the party and had shouted a declaration of love on the spot, the mother had greeted the shopping list or loudly, he would have been at the outside microphones the best way to understand in the depths of German. TV room. As calm as during the first half between Germany and Serbia, it certainly was not a match of the national football team. On the stands was a little fallen, sometimes briefly applauded. Then this silence again.

Until the 45th minute. Then the whistles came.

Scottish referee Bobby Madden had just called for a break when spectators, who had previously denied encouragement, expressed dissatisfaction. With deafening whistles, even the stadium announcer has been drowned. He just wanted to spread a little bit of optimism: 0: 1 at the half-time test against Serbia, that could only improve. After all, it was in the second half, as the DFB footballers jumped 1-1 (0: 1) in the test match in itself insignificant – but the whistles of the crowd appealed to the national team .

They did not quite agree, because the public's resentment was now to be interpreted. It was Ilkay Gündogan, who was leading the national team for the first time as a field captain, who only partially understood the discontent. "It does not help, of course," explained Gundogan. The whistles of the public are for him "incomprehensible, but we are professionals". Jonathan Tah also noted that you needed support in this phase of upheaval, but not whistles.

It was a little different with Joshua Kimmich ("understand that people are impatient") and especially with Leon Goretzka, who had at least saved the draw with his second-half goal. After the 2018 World Cup missed (in the prelims) and the descent into the League of Nations, the team must see to it that it finally brings back its performances. "It's up to us to turn whistles into joy and jubilation," said Goretzka, who had to pbad for consistent reasoning.

The credit, which the German footballers had won by the title of the World Cup in 2014 and good performances in the following years, seems to have been used – which became evident in Wolfsburg. The first half was not pleasant to watch, the Serbs also took the lead with a Frankfurter goal, Luka Jovic (12). The fact that the team, after the national coach of Radikalumbau Joachim Loew, who had promoted the world champions Mats Hummels, Jerome Boateng and Thomas Müller of the team, who still struggled for stability, was evident almost everywhere.

The Serbs spent only a few funds to manage the leadership, the DFB players being concerned anyway. "We were in rooms where we did not want to be," said Goretzka to the confusion that prevailed in the first half. Löw had mobilized a very young team, with newcomers Lukas Klostermann and his Leipzig team-mate Marcel Halstenberg in defensive positions. Niklas Süle and Tah did not look good at being central defenders between them, neither when they conceded, nor in some scenes afterwards.