After Germany’s early World Cup loss, Hansi Flick bemoaned “unacceptable” blunders, but he never considered resigning.
Germany, the four-time winners, experienced back-to-back World Cup group-stage exits after being eliminated early in Russia four years ago.
After losing to Japan 2-1 in their opening game, they drew 1-1 with Spain and lost 4-2 to Costa Rica in their last Group E meeting. Flick claims that despite these problems, the thought of resigning his position was never entertained.
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“No. It was never an issue for me to resign,” he told SID.
“I am absolutely convinced. And the communication and cooperation with Bernd Neuendorf and [Hans-Joachim] Watzke are very good, we have a good understanding.”
Despite having an expected goals (xG) of 10.4 from the group stages, greater than any other team, Germany was eliminated from the competition. Only six goals were scored from 69 shots, highlighting areas for growth for Flick.
“If you put the data on top of that, we were one of the teams that created the most scoring chances. But we lacked efficiency,” he added.
“Defensively it was only average, so we didn’t have enough compactness. The opponents took advantage of this, they had the efficiency that we lacked.
“We didn’t have the consistency over 90 minutes to pull through our match plan 100 percent. But we need that for the future, which is enormously important.
“Mistakes like the last 30 minutes against Japan are unacceptable at this level.”
