Porteous turns red after a violent intervention on Gündogan. The reaction from fans was immediate.
Scotland is disappointing
On social networks, the level of play shown by Scotland, outclassed so far, is the subject of a lot of criticism.
Germany is 2-0 and social networks are breaking down
Germany makes it 2-0 through Musiala, with another phenomenal work from Kroos, who delivers an incredible start to the match!
Germany opens the scoring
Florian Wirtz is the first scorer of Euro 2024. Well served, he returns to the semi-circle in front of his area and traps the goalkeeper. Wirtz is already the darling of social networks.
The opening ceremony criticized
On social networks, we visibly regret a somewhat timid opening ceremony.
The future Paul the Octopus
As in every tournament, some fans try to predict the results with the help of their animals. On social networks, there are many videos of this type, with dogs or even cows.
Nice cracks
In the metro, the Scottish fans, who went to the stadium, created an incredible atmosphere. While on German television, a fan went a little too far. Or his friend, we don’t really know.
The Scottish landing
In the streets, Scottish fans are extremely numerous, thousands having made the trip to Germany. Some people sometimes try surprising things, to the delight of social networks. In Munich, Marienplatz is overwhelmed and fans are called to disperse towards the Fan Zones, also very coveted. On the German side too, there is celebration in the streets.
Before the match
Quadruple world champion and triple European champion, Germany wants to go into orbit for “its” Euro 2024 at home on Friday in Munich (9:00 p.m.) against Scotland, in order to forget its three bitter consecutive failures since 2018 and regain its luster of the 2006/16 decade.
Accustomed to fighting in the final four of all major tournaments between 2006 and 2016, Germany has experienced an unprecedented low in its history since the 2018 World Cup with eliminations in the first round of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, and in round of 16 at the Euro three years ago. A downgrade which reached its climax in September 2023 with the sidelining of coach Hansi Flick, something the German Football Federation (DFB) had never done in the past.
The arrival at the end of September of Julian Nagelsmann, arrived a few months earlier to everyone’s surprise by Bayern Munich, breathed new life into the Mannschaft. It was he who was the great architect of Toni Kroos’ return to the national team. Ironically, it is in the den of Bayern, where he sat on the bench for a season and a half, from the summer of 2021 to the end of March 2023, that the adventure of a revival of the German selection must start Friday.
In recent days, he has taken it upon himself to talk about this still distant dream, namely winning the competition. “We should dream about it and then think about what it means to be in the final or even to win it”explained Nagelsmann at a press conference before the start of the tournament at home.
