Mbappe, Olise score as France beats Germany to secure third place in UEFA Nations League<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cOf course, we\u2019re still a few percentage points behind where we want to be, and behind the top teams in the world. We can\u2019t tear down the world in a year or two and make up for everything that may not have gone 100% right over several years.<\/p>\n
\u201cNevertheless, I sense something in the whole group, both the players and the staff, something special. There\u2019s a special touch and a lot of potential still in waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Germany, which last won the World Cup in 2014 and has been eliminated in the group stage in the past two editions, is in Group A of Europe\u2019s qualifiers for the 2026 tournament in North America.<\/p>\n
It begins its campaign in September against Slovakia in Bratislava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann said his side is still trying to close the gap on the top teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,70752,70753,68958,57563,70750,70751,70749,6574],"class_list":{"0":"post-169609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-germany-coach","12":"tag-germany-head-coach","13":"tag-germany-vs-france","14":"tag-julian-nagelsmann","15":"tag-nagelsmann-news","16":"tag-nagelsmann-reaction","17":"tag-nations-league-third-place","18":"tag-uefa-nations-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114652093145841840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169609","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=169609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}