Mats Hummels pleased with the German display against Ukraine - International News
Ukraine eventually applied breaks to Germany’s winning run by holding them to a 3-3 draw on Friday, in a game they should have won.
The DFB-Eleven, though, expressed satisfaction at the final result. Germany were trailing 3-1 at half time, but regained momentum to dominate in the next 45 minutes.
Borussia Dortmund defender, Mats Hummels, also seemed delighted at his team’s performance and hailed Joachim Low for being brave enough to try a new formation ahead of the Euro 2012.
Low went in with three defenders in order to try a completely different formation ahead of the main draw. The tactician, however, was soon made to realize his mistake by Oleh Blokhin’s men with three first half strikes.
The home team made an outstanding start to the game and dominated most of the first half. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andriy-Yarmolenko-c6021 opened the scoring for Ukraine in the 28th minute. Yevhen Konoplyanka doubled the lead just eight minutes later to push visitors further
down the barrel.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Serhiy-Nazarenko-c33135, who scored the third for the Yellow-Blues.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Simon-Rolfes-c33564. Thomas Muller equalized on the 78th minute mark to set-up an entertaining finish.
Both teams were unable to find the winner as the friendly ended all square at 3-3.
The Borussians defender, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mats-Hummels-c24767, is of the opinion that Germany should take heart from their performance against Ukraine despite not being able to win. He hailed the entire team for putting up a brave show away from home and reserved praise for the
manager at showing confidence in his three-man defence.
Hummels concluded the talks by saying, "If you look at the goals, they all would have come regardless of the three-man defence. I think things are going better now than last year, we have learned."
Germany will next play http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Netherlands-c753 in another friendly international on Tuesday as Joachim Low seems all set to finalise his 23 members for the next year’s Euro.
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