@iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cFrom the first minute, they had a corner and a chance.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about the system, tactics, back three or back four. It\u2019s about attitude. We have to do better in the next game. We have to support each other and make it easier for each other. We know we had a very bad game, every single individual \u2014 pointing the finger at each other won\u2019t get us anywhere. We know today wasn\u2019t enough. We were talking before the game about winning the World Cup, but first we have to qualify. If we play like we did today, then it won\u2019t be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, the Germans never quite appeared at the races in this one \u2014 which is not to say the tactics and choices were not questionable, either. It sounds as if the squad knows it is time to point thumbs, and we will find out on Sunday how much of a reaction this team can muster.<\/p>\n
The German national team hit the road to face Slovakia, looking to get off on the right foot for this round of World Cup qualifier action.<\/p>\n
Julian Nagelsmann \u2014 as he is prone to do \u2014 did some experimenting with his lineup and it did not work as the team dropped a 2-0 decision. The players were bad, the coaching was not great, and it was not a banner effort overall.<\/p>\n
There is plenty to discuss from this match, so let\u2019s get to it. This is what we have on tap for this edition of the Bavarian Podcast Works \u2014 Postgame Show:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany started bad and finished worse in a shocking 2-0 defeat to Slovakia to begin its qualification campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-398775","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-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149236272617217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398775","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=398775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}