Caporegime
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Khedira hasn't been in form for 18 months but he's been injured for a large part of that and WAS poor in previous games. He was great today but not as good as people are saying. Kroos scored two relative tap ins that were laid on the plate for him. He wasn't particularly involved in most of the goals.
Don't forget that for 23 minutes Kroos has basically done nothing. ALL the attack came through Muller and Klose, they were brilliant. The second goal utterly destroyed Brazil, they weren't good before then but the second goal just wiped out all resistance for the first half at least. They fell to absolute pieces and it was only then that Kroos got "involved", he did very little through the rest of the game either. Kroos was just standing near the edge of the box for his goal, Muller was involved in the build up and made the run, the pass was to Muller. It was a Muller mistake(or epic dummy
) that let the ball run to Kroos.These are the kind of games/statements that bug me. Muller has been basically the best player in the tournament for almost every minute he's been on the pitch, Kroos got two goals and did not much else in the game.
He finished well on both occasions but Kroos did nothing else to stand out. When they were under pressure in the first 15 mins of that half I didn't see Kroos doing anything at all while Muller was running all the way beyond Lahm at right back and bursting 90 yards forward to push the Brazil defence back.
Khedira's movement forward was much better than Kroos, and his unselfish passing set Kroos up for his second when he could pretty easily have shot instead.
It's good to see Khedira looking far closer to his best after his injury. If he was fit a month earlier and got another 4-5 games before the season ended he might have started the world cup in that same form.
