Shocking: Germany suffered a home defeat against 'Samurai' Japan

With less than nine months to go before the Euro 2024 finals at home, Germany continue to show their weak side under coach Hansi Flick. The team dubbed "The Tank" has played poorly in recent matches before taking the field to welcome Japan, their arch-rivals who defeated them 2-1, causing coach Hansi Flick's team to be eliminated right from the group stage of the 2022 World Cup.

Junya Ito opened the scoring for Japan in the 11th minute.

The situation is not optimistic for the German team and in the rematch on the morning of September 10, the "Blue Samurai" continued to cause sadness for the team that won the World Cup 4 times. The away team started the match confidently and was the team that opened the score. In the 11th minute, Sugawara dribbled the ball on the right wing before making a low cross for Junya Ito to run in and finish past goalkeeper Stegen.

Leroy Sane equalizes and the German tragedy begins

Leroy Sane equalized for Germany in the 19th minute after a well-coordinated attack. However, just 4 minutes later, Japan took the lead again, again from an attack on the right wing and again from Junya Ito. The ball went off target, accidentally becoming an assist for Ayase Ueda to tap the ball into the net from close range. 2-1 for Japan.

Ayase Ueda makes it 2-1 for Japan

Germany played stalemately for the rest of the time, the attack line with names like Kai Havertz, Serge Gnaby, Leroy Sane (after reinforcements Thomas Mueller, Julian Brandt) played extremely stalemate. Meanwhile, Japan still refused to stop. In the 90th minute, Takefusa Kubo stole the ball from the Gosens defender and then sprinted away, passing the ball to Takuma Asano for an easy finish.

Teammates share joy with Takefusa Kubo

The German nightmare was not over yet... In the 90+2 minute of extra time, Kubo still made a well-placed cross for Ao Tanaka to head the ball in, sealing a resounding 4-1 victory for Japan right at the Volkswagen Arena.

Germany's tough defeat

Germany lost their third match in a row and their fourth defeat in five matches, but coach Hansi Flick still insisted he was the right man to lead the hosts to Euro 2024 despite the increasing pressure after a series of bad results (only 4 wins in 17 matches)!

Jeers and whistles from the home fans rang out throughout the match against Japan and Germany's latest slip-up is expected to have an immediate impact on the "hot seat" that Flick is taking over.

Failure is too familiar to Germans.

"I know that football is always changing and nobody can predict what will happen. I think we are doing a good job and I think I am the right person," Hansi Flick said at his post-match press conference.

Flick, who started his Germany career with an eight-game winning streak, will now face a tough test in a friendly against France on September 12.

Coach Hansi Flick remains tough after Germany's poor run of form

"We have to be honest and say that Japan played better. They ran, they played in space, they scored goals. They played better," said Germany captain Ilkay Gündogan. "We made too many individual mistakes. We have to admit that we are not at the same level as the teams today. We are just not good enough at the moment. That's the truth."

German Football Association technical director R. Voller admitted that this defeat was "humiliating", according to BBC. Some journalists called on the federation to quickly fire coach Flick.

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