It was a bit of over-confidence ahead of our opener against Mexico, we thought we could just press the button and win. That was not the case.

Joachim Loew

Categorized in : Sports

I cannot say why this was for us, it was a bit of overconfidence ahead of Mexico - that we can press the button and win.

We need to congratulate our opponents, we didn't deserve to win the title again, we didn't deserve to get into the last 16. We wanted to win but we didn't have what it takes.

You could hear already yesterday that players were self-critical, the German team just did not hit their top form. That can happen because at a World Cup you come up against tough opponents.

He trained a week at Bayern, here he is training fully and can also deal with the intensity level, we will see from day-to-day. If he has the feeling that he is at 100 percent then he can be there in Russia. Should there be any problems we would need to discuss it. But as things stand now he has no problems whatsoever and things look good.

Sometimes, he likes to think he's a midfield player. by Joachim Loew

Sometimes, he likes to think he's a midfield player.