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#1 Sami Khedira
Khedira’s performance at the World Cup has to go down as one of the worst in recent history for a suposed top midfielder. The sad aspect is that it is actually nothing new as he has been beyond abysmal for Die Mannschaft in the last couple of years.
His lack of discipline to understand that in the German set-up, he is supposed to be the defensive midfielder have caused tons of problems for the side.
His amazing lack of positional awareness which sees him constantly going AWOL and leaving midfield partner Kroos alone to face the opposition attacks is one that various opponents have sought to exploit for a while now
Against Mexico, the midfield five behind Javier Hernandez had a field day constantly going past the overworked Kroos and the same thing happened against the speedy South Koreans.
This has been a recurring complaint about Khedira’s displays for the team since Bastien Schweinsteiger retired and while Low sought to counterbalance this by playing Leon Goretzka, a tactic which only made the team only more ponderous.
Sebastian Rudy and Julian Weigl are also two very good truly defensive midfielders currently available to the team and they would do a far better job than Khedira has done of late.
