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da winzada777： Germany coach Joachim Low has stated that he was always confident that his team would beat Denmark to top Euro 2012 Group B.
Goals from Lukas Podolski and Lars Bender gave the Germans a 2-1 win over the Scandinavians, and meant that they topped their pool and progressed to the quarter-finals.
Low feels that the game went to plan and is confident of making the latter stages of the tournament.
“I had a plan. Of course I had considered what would have happened if Denmark had in some way suddenly scored a goal but I never had that feeling,” The Guardian quote Low as revealing.
“I was pretty relaxed because it doesn’t get you anywhere when you panic. Bastian Schweinsteiger and Sami Khedira were always in control and I just had the feeling we would score.
“Denmark played with a stoic calmness and it seemed like they could not care less.
“I never had the feeling that Denmark were playing to win it. They wanted to keep the result, were happy with the draw and then maybe they would get a free-kick or corner that they could take advantage of, but they did not attack much.
“They sat back a lot, even though they had to win. They had one or two good chances, but no more than that, and I think in the second half we did a decent job given the pressure.
“Maybe had we played Holland or Portugal [in the final group game], they would have done more for a win than Denmark did,” he concluded.
Germany now take on Group A runners-up Greece in the next round.
By Gareth McKnight
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