Germany returned home on Wednesday following their Euro 2020 last-16 loss to England, with departing coach Joachim Loew at the centre of fierce criticism after another early tournament elimination.
Loew, who had a contract till 2022 but following several bad results decided in March to leave after the Euros, should have gone much earlier, many people believe.
“It is too early to analyse what worked and what didn’t,” Loew told a news conference on Wednesday, back in the squad’s Bavarian base. “Some things worked really well, some not.”
“What I know is that in these four-and-a-half weeks we invested everything we had. Going into detail now about what went wrong makes little sense for me. I take full responsibility for Tuesday’s defeat.”
Germany’s shock 2018 World Cup exit and their inaugural Nations League relegation that year had stunned fans who demanded change from the man who led them to the 2014 World Cup title. But Loew’s overhaul was never completed, cut short by the pandemic and poor results.
