Kroos: Zinedine Zidane has always stressed: "We have to learn to suffer. If it is not difficult for us to suffer, we will have a good chance to win." And at this level, there will always be situations where you have to
It is an acceptance that you will be a worse team than the opponent.
Kroos: If you can prevent your team from falling, you gain new strength. Sometimes it comes to putting an end to misfortune. In the first leg of the semi-finals with Manchester City in 2022, we could easily have lost 1-10. But it ended 3-4. When City scored 1-0 in the second leg, we didn't give up.
Kroos: But we are always able to create situations that give us new life and give life to the field, and leave the thinking to the opponent. And even more, if you can do it over and over again. In the end, it's all about believing and working to create that exact procedure that changes everything.