What happened? Mats Hummels and Bastian Schweinsteiger (below) reflect on another German defeat at the hands of Italy

The decision to replace Podolski and Gomez with Marco Reus and Miroslav Klose was a sound one by Low. It improved the German team and but for Buffon, who just managed to push the ball against his crossbar, Reus would have scored with a superb free-kick.

Balotelli, however, was more clinical. In explaining why he did not celebrate his penalty against England the other night, he compared himself to a postman. He said he was simply doing his job.

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