1. Just blame it on Mesut Ozil. Like every body does.
2. Mats Hummels is going to be haunted by that missed chance. Forever.
3. I still dont get why Low left out Leroy Sane. That offense needed a guy like him to spark something. That may have bit them back in their behinds.
I know you're being sarcastic, but this isn't on Özil (although he also played like crap). The entire team was bad today, which means it's on the coach. The mentality of the team is just infuriating, and has been for a long time now.
I just saw a video analysis by former Bundesliga coach Stanislawski on german TV, and it was even worse than I remembered. It's like several players didn't even participate. Nobody wanted the ball, nobody made that extra step to get into a position were he could receive the ball from the ballhandler. Lots of beautiful fancy passes into nowhere.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I'm not sure Sane would have changed anything. Sane has twelve caps to his name, and not a single one of those games was good. Some were downright horrific. The argument to leave him at home was that Germany would face mostly teams who would try to park the bus, and Löw wanted to play a slow, methodical possession style to counter that, which really doesn't suit Sane's style.
Yeah, we did play a slow, methodical possession style. Just not a very good one... which, again, is on Löw. Then again, Germany also has a serious talent issue, right now. Many of the younger players just aren't as talented as the previous generation. I mean, when was the last time Germany produced a striker of international calibre? Gomez, twelve years ago? Does he even count?