Julian Nagelsmann makes damning admission as Florian Wirtz draws blank again - 'Deserved'

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“We have three points - football is a results business after all - but it was more difficult than we had hoped,” Nagelsmann said after the game. We needed the second half to really get ourselves into the game.

That didn’t happen, and in the end we took our chances and won the game - that’s the most important thing for me.” Far from happy with the way in which his players approached the game, Nagelsmann added: “I’d love to see a statistic showing how many times we played backwards. In the first half, I think we had only one or two balls played properly into the final third.

Learn more “We acted too cautiously and kept involving our goalkeeper [Oliver] Baumann, which in most situations wasn’t even necessary.” Despite the disappointing performance, Nagelsmann and his players are on the verge of qualifying for next year’s tournament. “We will give everything to win the game.