I mean Henrichs by the time of the of the 2019 tournament had played more league minutes at CL clubs than Raum has amassed for Fürth and about a dozen CL games on top. Is Henrichs a top player? Not really. But it's a bit disingenuous to call him a constant disappointment, when were comparing him to a 2nd division player. And I know Raum had a couple of good moments in this tournament, he doesn't stand out as a weakness and he seems to have a great left foot and he may just be a late bloomer, but it still says a lot about the level of talent, that where there used to be a promising top four club talent and Mittelstädt as his backup, there is now only Fürth's LB.
Tah is a somewhat similar case to Henrichs: relative to how he started out his development has been disappointing, but he still rolled up to the u21 team with probably 150 games played for Leverkusen and some senior caps on his CV. At night Amos Pieper dreams of being able to say that about himself when he's retiring.
The team right now is on 8 goals scored, last tournament it was 14 goal scored after the semi final, so it's a bit ambitious to state the attack is clearly stronger this time around.
I agree that the team shows a very good mentality, balance, organization, whatever you want to call these soft factors. I really applaud their effort. But this isn't the early 2000s, a German team should not have to rely on being solid and having good mentality to this extend anymore. I know these numbers aren't facts, but the market value of the current squad is €153m, two years before it was €314m and that kind of says it all..
