{"id":404315,"date":"2025-09-07T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404315\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:00:49","slug":"germanys-julian-nagelsmann-knows-change-is-needed-vs-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404315\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Julian Nagelsmann knows change is needed vs. Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Bayern Munich manager and current German national team boss Julian Nagelsmann was extremely unhappy after his team\u2019s 2-0 loss to Slovakia earlier this week. That anger has subsided and while Nagelsmann knows change must happen, it might not exactly mean that there will be wholesale changes to the lineup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had several discussions with individual players and with the team. The team have also spoken among themselves and clarified some things. We won\u2019t see a completely changed team. There will certainly be some changes in terms of personnel, but not all ten players will be rotated. We have to deliver a better performance than we did on Thursday,\u201d Nagelsmann said during his pre-match press conference (as captured by @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cWe need players who fit the situation. We shouldn\u2019t think of qualification, it\u2019s just about this game. We\u2019ve spoken to the leaders, those who are leaders by virtue of their position and those who can be leaders because of their nature. I\u2019ve strengthened their leadership aspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n

One player who will be available after some speculation about an arm injury is Bayern Munich attacker Serge Gnabry.<\/p>\n

\u201dI don\u2019t expect that to stop him from playing, but we\u2019ll see how he is doing in training. He had some problems yesterday but then got better,\u201d Nagelsmann said.<\/p>\n

Nagelsmann had many things to address with his players, but \u2014 curiously \u2014 did not catch up with Liverpool star Florian Wirtz, who got distracted by arguing and shirked his defensive responsibilities, which helped contribute to a Slovakia goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlo is an extremely important player for us. He tried a lot on Thursday and will try again tomorrow, which means he will play. I didn\u2019t speak to him about that scene, but if I did I would\u2019ve told him that he should fall to the ground because it was a clear foul. It wasn\u2019t a regular goal. You should be smarter in the situation and fall, because it was a clear foul. It was unfortunate that we conceded a goal, but we didn\u2019t concede it because Flo argued with a player on the halfway line. There were other reasons,\u201d said Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n

Finally, Nagelsmann talked about the subject of the team\u2019s mentality, which sounds\u2026unstable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something very shaky, which is difficult. There\u2019s no data on it; it\u2019s subjective. A person\u2019s ability to motivate someone else is limited. You try to develop understanding. From a coaching perspective, it\u2019s about giving the players something that makes it easier for them to play football emotionally. But it\u2019s also about finding the energy within yourself and igniting the energy of your teammates. It\u2019s not about shouting at the players,\u201d Nagelsmann said.<\/p>\n

Bayern Munich is on break and the German national team got off to a bad start in this round of World Cup qualifiers. Let\u2019s dive into all of that!<\/p>\n

This is what we have on tap for this episode of the Bavarian Podcast Works \u2014 Weekend Warm-up Show:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bayern Munich manager and current German national team boss Julian Nagelsmann was extremely unhappy after his team\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6102,2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-404315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bayern-munich-alumni","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","12":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115161024648943815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}