Thomas Muller’s Struggles vs. Poland Highlight Germany’s Stuttering Attack

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Published: June 17, 2016

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Germany's surprising struggles in second matches at major tournaments under Joachim Low continued with a goalless draw against Poland in Stade de France on Thursday.

The world champions have now won only one of their five second matches under the 56-year-old's leadership, and they didn't look particularly close to adding a second win against their northeastern neighbours.

Poland thoroughly deserved the point. One could even argue that they were closer to winning all three than Germany, although it wasn't a game of big chances.

"All in all, a draw is a fair result," Low conceded after the game, per the German football association's official website, "but I’m not happy with it. We have to live with the point though."

If he wants to focus on the positive, his defence looked more convincing than it did against Ukraine in the opener at the weekend. The entire team showed better defensive cohesion, as Germany's full-backs Jonas Hector and Benedikt Howedes weren't isolated nearly as much as they were in the first match.

The centre-back pairing of Mats Hummels—who, as expected, replaced Shkodran Mustafi in the starting XI—and Jerome Boateng played very well, too. The 27-year-old Borussia Dortmund man looked a bit rusty at first, getting caught out of position two or three times in the early goings and giving away the ball cheaply on occasion, but got better as the game went on, making some important interventions in the second half when the game was more open for a while.



The star of the show, however, was Boateng. The 27-year-old looked untouchable on his way to a man-of-the-match performance, winning every important duel, heroically blocking a Robert Lewandowski attempt—it's no coincidence that the imperious Pole is still waiting for his first shot in France—and, as per usual, distributing the ball from the back with great accuracy.

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