On Friday night, Nick Woltemade scored his first international brace for Germany. Woltemade\u2019s one-touch goals in the 49th and 69th minute led Germany to a 2-0 win over Luxembourg. Woltemade\u2019s three goals in the FIFA World Cup Qualifying group stage is the most for Germany\u2019s squad, followed closely by two goals each from Bayern Munich\u2019s Joshua Kimmich and Serge Gnabry.<\/p>\n
Woltemade had the opportunity to go prima donna and claim full credit and praise but sounded more like a manager in his postgame interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe performance in the first half was not good,\u201d said Woltemade (via @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cThere was a lot of back and forth and we conceded many dangerous situations. The second half was better, we were more precise and got the goals we needed. At this point the most important thing is the three points. We knew Luxembourg can play football. Everyone admitted at half time that the first half was not good. We were then significantly better, with more control and more chances. Getting a brace here is very nice, but as long as we get the win it doesn\u2019t matter who scores.\u201d<\/p>\n If Woltemade continues to speak maturely and loudly, he might become the unexpected vocal leader for the next wave of Germany\u2019s young attack.<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday night, Nick Woltemade scored his first international brace for Germany. Woltemade\u2019s one-touch goals in the 49th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-570961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115550980889372837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570961","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=570961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}