Das Reboot 2: Toni Kroos heralds a new era as Germany dig deep against Hungary

Germany was perhaps fortunate to have come away with a 2-0 scoreline over Hungary in their second group-stage match of EURO 2024, but they deserved the victory nonetheless.

Toni Kroos, who has played an instrumental role in Julian Nagelsmann’s new-look Germany side, was captured commenting on the team’s winning start to the tournament by German television outlet Das Erste (via @iMiaSanMia), saying the following:

It’s always important to confirm the first win. It’s actually very rare that we won the first two games in a major tournament. You could see it was more difficult today than on Friday against Scotland. But we got through it well and won comfortably in the end. I think we’ve started to get through difficult moments like that. That gives the team a lot of belief and will be extremely important. Sometimes you can go behind and then it’s important to react. It was nice to see that the national team is still capable of firing up the country. I feel there’s a good unity and I hope that will take us far.

It’s been ten years since Germany’s 2014 World Cup triumph, and for the first time in a decade, the German Men’s National Team looks capable of winning a major trophy. Like Jürgen Klinsmann and Jogi Löw before him, Julian Nagelsmann is making changes that are leading to a shift in the trajectory of the German National Team.