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SEVILLE (Reuters) – Germany coach Joachim Loew was unable to explain his team’s humiliating 6-0 defeat to Spain in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday, causing them to lose a place in the competition’s semi-finals. .
“I really don’t know what happened to the team,” Loew told reporters after Germany’s toughest loss in 89 years and the worst in competitive soccer.
“We hardly had a chance and we didn’t win a single individual battle on the field.”
Germany have been on a downward path since crashing in the group stage at the 2018 World Cup and have only won three of their last eight international matches.
They entered Tuesday’s decisive match at the top of the A4 League after beating Ukraine 3-1 and a draw would have booked them their place in the last four, but they fell three goals towards the break and performed even worse in the second half.
“In the second half we tried to push them up high on the pitch to score and get back into the game, but Spain played much better than us, they were much faster and played with more precision,” added Loew.
“Before the game we said that we trusted the players in our squad and that we were on the right track, but today we saw that we did not progress as well as we thought after our last games.”
Midfielder Serge Gnabry added: “Nothing worked for us tonight. We couldn’t control them, they deserved to beat us like they did.”
“Spain did everything well and we did not do anything well. We do not know what level we are at now. It is not normal to lose a game by so many goals.”
(Reporting by Richard Martin; Editing by Toby Davis)
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