The key to the German national team bending Estonia despite playing with 10 players

DBasia.news –  The German national team won a 3-0 victory over Estonia in the continuation of the 2020 European Cup Qualifying match on Monday morning Western Indonesian Time, October 14, 2019.

Because the team made by Joachim Loew must appear with 10 players since the 14th minute after Emre Can received a red card, according to the official UEFA website.

Juventus player that functioned as a central defender initially failed to control the ball which was seized by Frank Liivak. Trying to fix his mistakes, Can instead tackle Liivak who had surged into the goal which was immediately greeted by referee Georgi Kabakov with a red card.

Despite continuing the match with an imbalance in the number of players, Germany continued to show the difference in class by winning the match thanks to Ilkay Guendogan’s two goals completed by Timo Werner.

The victory kept Germany in second place in Group C with 15 points, matching the Dutch (15) who also won earlier in the match, while increasing hopes of qualifying for the 2020 European Cup finals.

Germany almost took the lead in the 40th minute when Marco Reus executed a fine free-kick, unfortunately, the ball still hit the crossbar before being swept away by the Estonian defense.

Entering the second half, Germany seemed to have begun to find comfort performing with 10 players on the field.

Six minutes after Guendogan’s kick snatched the dead ball as a result of Kai Havertz’s effort which hit the Estonian defense to open the German lead.

Germany’s advantage was quickly doubled in the 57th minute when Guendogan completed the back of Reus’ heel for the hosts’ goal again.

In the 66th minute, Werner came on for Gian-Luca Waldschmidt and only five minutes pastured the RB Leipzig striker immediately made his contribution to increasing Germany’s lead to 3-0.

Starting from Guendogan’s long pass, Werner welcomed it, stabbing in before deceiving goalkeeper Sergei Lepmets.

Werner almost added another German goal if only the Lepmets did not save their chances in the 73rd minute.

The win was an important capital for Germany to ensure a step into the finals in their remaining two matches in the next qualifying match window hosting Belarus and Northern Ireland on November 16 and three days later.