{"id":401342,"date":"2025-09-06T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401342\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:48:10","slug":"bastian-schweinsteiger-irate-after-germanys-2-0-debacle-vs-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401342\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastian Schweinsteiger irate after Germany\u2019s 2-0 debacle vs. Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger pulled no punches in assessing Germany\u2019s poor effort in a 2-0 loss to Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI played 121 games for Germany and there was never an attitude problem. When you hear the anthem and put on the national team shirt, you have to give everything on the pitch &#8211; regardless of whether it\u2019s a friendly or a World Cup final,\u201d Schweinsteiger said (as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1963714420577821028\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cI\u2019m sorry. But not for a single minute of the game did I believe we would win. This is a tough setback. We were really bad. We didn\u2019t play good passes, we didn\u2019t pose any threat. Our body language after going 0-1 behind was gone immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf you want to win anything, you have to show resilience. The players have to realize that wasn\u2019t good. I didn\u2019t sense any danger today. The coach can talk all night long, but the players have to understand it for themselves. We\u2019d be lucky to qualify for the World Cup if we play like we did today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Schweinsteiger is correct \u2014 Germany lacked energy and fight\u2026and it was bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There is not much time to regroup and a lot needs to be changed. Time is ticking\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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":"Former Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger pulled no punches in assessing Germany\u2019s poor effort in a 2-0 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-401342","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\/115154603435006140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401342","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=401342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}