The German international has insisted that Germany will be a totally different than the side that lost to Switzerland when they take part in the European championship.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 suffered a shock 5-3 loss at the hands of Switzerland in their first international friendly in Basel. Bayer Leverkusen striker Eren Derdiyok secured a hat-trick as the visitors were outclassed by their opponents.
Die Mannschaft’s defence has been widely criticised after the defeat as the Mats Hummels-Per Mertesacker partnership looked completely out of sorts. The Germans tried their best to make a comeback with goals from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marco-Reus-c23733, Andre
Schurrle and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mats-Hummels-c24767 but the hosts were successful in securing an important victory.
Podolski admitted that it was a poor performance from his side and insisted that conceding five times in a game is not a good result considering the European championship is just around the corner.
The striker is confident that Germany will be a different team when they take on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984 in the first game of the Euro 2012. He added that some important players will also return to the starting line-up which will add to the quality.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 man assured that Die Mannschaft will have a successful campaign in Europe’s premier international competition and stressed that the team is determined to go all the way this time around.
“Of course defeats like this shouldn't happen and they hurt, and losing 5-3 to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Switzerland-c3016 is definitely not on, but I can promise there will be a different team on the field [against Portugal]. It has been the same in previous
years, when we lost 4-1 to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926 [in 2006], for example,” he was quoted as saying in an interview.
Podolski stated that the team has to learn from the mistakes and make sure that they are not repeated again.
“We have got to live with the criticism. We are all focusing on Portugal and have got to be fit for that game, and we will be fit,” he concluded.
Germany will kick start their Euro 2012 campaign against the Portuguese side on June 9 at the Arena Lviv in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032.
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