This.
My excitement for the next game has been completely eroded by how dull and inevitable this game was. Did someone slip the French side quaaludes halfway through the second half or something? I just don't understand how you can sleepwalk through a knockout stage game like this.
Seriously.
I mean, Germany clearly made positive changes by playing Lahm at his natural position and starting Schweini/Khedira in mid But like, seriously? Zero effort shown in the final 3rd today. Valbuena shot cross after cross into the box and nobody bothered to get after one. Klose, who looked so great coming off the bench, did nothing. Muller's main contribution was yelling at the referees. Ozil was invisible. Benzema's best chance came in the final minute of stoppage. Oh, and where the fukk was Pogba? Announcers have been crowning him all tournament, but he did fukk-all today.
These were supposed to be two star-studded sides. As far as I'm concerned, they both lost.