After defeating Hungary 2-0 in Group A on Wednesday, Germany moved on to the Euro 2024 round of 16. We are currently on the second matchday of the preliminary round of the competition.

Jamal Musiala gave the Germans the lead midway through the first half after Ilkay Gundogan managed to keep the ball alive in Hungary’s penalty area. On Friday night, Musiala’s effortless genius was absolutely devastating for Scotland.

Gundogan completed a brilliantly accurate and deft play that saw Maximilian Mittelstadt draw the ball back from the left and the Barcelona midfielder score from eight yards out as Germany doubled their lead.

Hungary had chances, but Roland Sallai was flagged offside when he lapped up a rebound after a Manuel Neuer save, and Barnabas Varga later headed agonisingly over the bar.

Kai Havertz worked hard throughout his 58 minutes on the pitch, after his penalty-score goal the previous time out, but he was not rewarded and is still looking for his first open-play goal.

Thus far this summer, Havertz has been preferred to start at the front of the line over outstanding sub Niclas Fullkrug, who came on as a substitute against Scotland and scored a thunderbolt before coming on here, and 21-year-old Maximilian Beier’s youthful energy.

From the start, the attacker for Arsenal was creating issues for Hungary with his deft moves. After latching onto Joshua Kimmich’s pass, he definitely ought to have scored within the first five minutes, but instead he fired the rebound straight at Peter Gulacsi. A few minutes later, Havertz had another chance that the goalie turned away due to his roughness towards Willi Orban.

All in all, he gave Orban a headache multiple times. Havertz had two early shoots and raised a lot of questions with his off-ball play, but he only managed 29 touches overall (ten of which, according to Fotmob, were in the box), lost all eight of his ground and air duels, and completed just 14 passes. Essentially, his accomplishment primarily served to enable others.

The first team to guarantee their spot in the knockout stages of the 2022 World Cup is Germany, who qualified via the group stage. Even while that progression is the bare minimum for us as hosts, it is still a significant step because it was completed with plenty of game left.

Images we don’t want to see.

Kieran Tierney hugged his face, cried and walked dejectedly into the tunnel after a serious injury.

According to confirmation from Scottish National Team coach Steve Clarke, it was “a pretty bad injury” and Tierney no longer had a chance to play in the match against Hungary.

 Scotland is currently ranked 3rd in Group A. If they cannot earn 3 points in the final match, the journey at Euro 2024 will end for Tierney.

Get well soon, Kieran!