{"id":160850,"date":"2025-06-05T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160850\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:04:13","slug":"robin-koch-says-germany-lost-steam-after-taking-lead-over-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160850\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Koch says Germany lost steam after taking lead over Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"J79CgI\">Eintracht Frankfurt defender Robin Koch was excited when Germany took a 1-0 lead on Florian Wirtz\u2019s header goal early in the second half. <\/p>\n<p id=\"8ws3ZR\">However, Koch said that he could also feel things slowly start to fall apart from that point forward. <\/p>\n<p id=\"T0SiYc\">\u201cThen it felt like there was a complete break in our game,\u201d said Robin Koch told ZDF (as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kicker.de\/ein-kompletter-bruch-im-spiel-1123899\/artikel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicker<\/a>). \u201cWe hardly got into dangerous areas with the ball anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"sHnLU6\">Whether the players let up or head coach Julian Nagelsmann just pushed the wrong buttons with his substitutions does not matter much now. All Germany can do is seek to avoid the same mistakes in the third place game on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Yog67w\">Looking for more thoughts and discussion on Germany\u2019s disappointing 2-1 loss to Portugal at the Allianz Arena? Great, then we have you covered with the Bavarian Podcast Works \u2014 Postgame Show. You can get the podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/bavarian-podcast-130729491?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&amp;utm_source=copyLink&amp;utm_campaign=postshare_creator&amp;utm_content=join_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patreon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/64lpyOwU6HPDSsGoli29Wu?si=x14a4jtpRnKoalel_Cb8tg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/bavarian-podcast-works1\/episodes\/bavarian-podcast-works-postgame-show-germany-1-2-portugal-ue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acast<\/a>, or below: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"UY54xS\">Also, be sure to stay tuned to Bavarian Podcast Works for all of your up to date coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a> and Germany. Check us out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BavarianPodcastWorks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a> and follow us on Twitter @BavarianFBWorks, @BavarianPodcast @TheBarrelBlog, @BFWCyler, @2012nonexistent, @TommyAdams71 and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eintracht Frankfurt defender Robin Koch was excited when Germany took a 1-0 lead on Florian Wirtz\u2019s header goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[14120,6098,2000,299,94,163,1824,6100,7262,37730,35322,49079,3046,67742,24668,6101,2394,50612,6099],"class_list":{"0":"post-160850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-bavarian","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-germany-international-soccer","16":"tag-koch","17":"tag-lead","18":"tag-lost","19":"tag-over","20":"tag-portugal","21":"tag-robin","22":"tag-says","23":"tag-soccer-sg","24":"tag-steam","25":"tag-taking","26":"tag-works"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114632082344253259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}