Misfiring Germans frustrate coach Loew

Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted his team are misfiring and struggling to finish their chances despite winning both their opening 2014 World Cup qualifiers. Loew’s team opened their Brazil 2014 campaign with a 3-0 win over minnows Faroe Islands in Hanover a week ago followed by Tuesday’s 2-1 win over Austria in Vienna. But they failed to finish a string of chances in both and Loew admits his team are not playing with the same fluidity and confidence they exuded in winning all ten of their Euro 2012 qualifiers. “We are lacking some ease and calm in our game, not everything is working well,” he told German daily Bild. “We need to stabilise our game. “Sometimes it’s good when the deficits are obvious, then we know which areas we have specifically to focus on. “We need to do some work on the basics again and that is the phase we are currently in.” Germany face the Republic of Ireland in Dublin on Oct.12, without captain Philipp Lahm who is suspended, then Sweden in Berlin four days later in next month’s World Cup qualifiers and are top of Group C.