“Lehmann lost his cool when he said Spain were a youth team”

Jens LehmannThe renowned goalkeeper, who played 61 times for Germany, has criticised the Spanish national team.

“Spain is a small and inexperienced team, basically like a youth team”Lehmann said in Welt TVheated up the quarter-final match of the European Cup.

Spain and Germany will meet in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024.

Nicolas Linner, a journalist for “Bild”, was very insistent in Onda Cero’s “Radioestadio Noche” when it came to criticising the former national team goalkeeper’s words against Spain: “I think Lehmann has lost his cool a bit; to say that ‘Spain is a youth team’ means not seeing the Eurocup.”

As for the quarter-final match, the German journalist believes: “I think Germany are slight favourites on Friday; Spain’s defence doesn’t give me much confidence.”

The most famous players in Germany on the Spanish team are Rodri and Carvajal,” he noted.

Mikel Oyarzabal hits back at Jens Lehmann for calling Spain a ‘youth team’

Spain international Mikel Oyarzabal also responded to Lehmann: “This is another opinion that deserves respect but is not shared. In the end, we know that we are a group that forms a great team and what people think will have their reasons for saying it, but it does not affect us.”

For us, we are the best choice there can be.

Oyarzabal

“We know what we are capable of in our daily lives, we see what the group is like and we are calm, we trust ourselves and, without belittling anyone, we think we can beat anyone,” said the Real Sociedad striker.