2023 will definitely be a year for the Germany team to forget. This is because the year was marked as the team’s worst performance in almost 70 years.
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The last match was this Tuesday’s friendly against Austria, which ended in a 2-0 defeat at the Ernst Happel stadium, in Vienna.
Thus, although the German team had more possession of the ball in the first half (61% to 39%), it was the Austrians who ended up being more dangerous and created more scoring chances.
In the 29th minute, midfielder Sabitzer invaded the area, swung in front of the marker and shot low, into the corner of goalkeeper Trapp.
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The other game of the match came in the 27th minute of the final stage, defender Alaba found a great pass for center forward Gregoritsch, who made the wall for Baumgarten. The attacking midfielder entered the area and played beautifully, with a dig, over the goalkeeper.
As a result, this was Germany’s sixth and last defeat in 11 games in 2023. The team had, on the other hand, three wins and two draws. The team hosting the next Euro Cup — and therefore already qualified — had its worst performance in 67 years this year (33.3%).
Thus, worse than that, only in 1956, when they had five defeats in eight games (29.1%), in addition to two wins and a draw. This was just two years after their first World Cup title.
Another very bad campaign was in 2018, the year of the World Cup in Russia, in which the German team ended with six defeats, three draws and four wins in 13 games (38.4% success rate).