The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/VfB-Stuttgart-c40879 player insists that only the national team members are to be held responsible for their Euro 2012 defeat and that the blame on the manager is unjustified.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Argentina-c2841 in a friendly match on Wednesday.
The German head coach was heavily criticised in his country as he used highly-rated http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Toni-Kroos-c35425 as a supporting attacking playmaker in their 2-1 Euro 2012 semi-final defeat to the Italians.
The Real Madrid starlet believes that the 52-year-old coach has the backing of all the German players and claimed that they deserved to come out on top in the semi-final clash against the Azzurri.
The 25-year-old stressed that the squad completely trusts Low as he is a very qualified person for the role of the national team manager.
"We are 100 per cent confident in him. We have no doubt because he is a competent coach,” he announced.
The German international added that if the tactics and the team selection had worked at the semis in Euros, then everybody would have been praising the boss but suggested that the players did not perform and they are to be blamed
for the defeat.
"A trainer proves his worth by making risky decisions and no one can blame him for his starting line-up in the semi-final of the European Championship. We, the players, were the ones on the pitch,” he stated.
The midfielder conceded that they spurned too many goal scoring opportunities before Italy got the lead and then doubled it. He maintained that they should have played like they did against Greece in the quarter-final and won convincingly.
"We had many chances to score before the Italians got their goal and should also not have been 2-0 down. We didn't do what we did against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926," he was quoted as saying in an interview.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Netherlands-c753, and still managed to qualify by becoming the group leaders.
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