Germany kickstart Euro 2024 in style and pile on the pain for 10-man Scotland
Let’s rock! Germany’s players were clearly paying close and diligent attention to Julian Nagelsmann’s pre-tournament press conference on Thursday night. At the Munich Football Stadium the hosts kicked off Euro 2024 with a kind of pomp-metal power surge, a first half display that produced three goals, a red card for Ryan Porteous, a series of lovely supple passing moves fed through the rhythm section Toni Kroos, and evidence of just how well Nagelsmann has balanced this talented team.
The opener ended in a 5-1 defeat for a game and persevering Scotland, but it was packed away in those 10 first-half minutes that brought goals from Florian Wirtz and the impressive Jamal Musiala.
