Two out of two. There Germany he makes no mistakes and wins the second success in a row at Euro 2024, giving a 2-0 victory to a good Hungary thanks to goals from Jamal Musiala and Ilkay Gundogan. Julian Nagelsmann’s boys thus become – deservedly – the first national team to arithmetically secure the pass for the round of 16. Another good match for the Mannschaft, still driven by the two scorers: Gundogan is elected MVP, Musiala scores the second goal in a row and is also among the best; the Hungarians instead paid for a few too many defensive errors.
To those who say that in the third match of the group stage, against Switzerland, Julian Nagelsmann could also make a turnover, the German coach responds like this: “The first objective is to win the group. I can assure you that there will not be seven changes in the starting line-up for the next match against Switzerland, but we need more pace. We are in the middle of a maturation process, in October we would not have won this match 2-0.”
Germany wants to win the group because it is clearly the strongest. Indeed, she is “the favorite to lift the trophy”, as Hungary’s coach says Marco Rossi in the post-match: “We made some mistakes, but in football making mistakes is a natural thing. Germany is one of the best teams in the world and plays better than us, but we already knew this: perhaps we met the main favorites to win of the continental title”.