Florian Wirtz & Jamal Musiala ran the show as Germany sealed their Nations League group with an emphatic 7-0 victory over Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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Bosnia no match for ruthless GermanyNagelsmann's men handed them their heaviest defeatWirtz & Musiala shone the brightest in FreiburgFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱AFPTELL ME MORE
Germany got off to a lightning start to the match with Musiala heading home an inch-perfect cross from Joshua Kimmich. After taking an early lead, they settled in quite comfortably, dominating possession and giving away hardly anything to Bosnia. With three orchestrators behind Tim Kleindienst – in Musiala, Wirtz and Kai Havertz – the Germans looked flamboyant in attack. Soon, Kleindienst added the second after he got the faintest of touches to Robert Andrich's piledriver and Bosnian shoulders started dropping. Havertz kept knocking on the goal and in the 36th minute, the Arsenal star made it 3-0 after a brilliant give-and-go with Wirtz.
The script hardly changed in the second half as Wirtz scored an absolute stunner from a set piece, just five minutes after the resumption. The free-kick had the optimum spin and dip which bamboozled the goalkeeper as the ball slid into the back of the net. And before the hour-mark, the Bayer Leverkusen star completed his brace after Havertz's attempt on goal was parried by Nikola Vasilj in his path.
After going 5-0 up, Nagelsmann decided to manage the minutes and made four changes as he introduced Benjamin Henrichs, Serge Gnabry, Julian Brandt and Leroy Sane. The changes hardly hampered Germany's rhythm as they continued to be ruthless in front of goal with Sane scoring just minutes after coming on after getting on the end of a lobbed pass by Havertz. However, the misery was not yet over for the visitors as Kleindienst netted the seventh of the night to wrap up a massive humiliation for Sergej Barbarez's troops.
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The 7-0 loss was the heaviest defeat for Bosnia & Herzegovina in the history of their senior men's football team.
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Musiala and Wirtz stole the show against a hapless Bosnian defence. While the Bayern attacking midfielder set the tone for the night with an early opener, Wirtz terrorised the centre-backs with his incisive runs and immaculate passing. He took seven minutes to complete his brace in the second half and could have even had his hat-trick if Nagelsmann had not hooked him off on the hour mark.
THE BIG LOSER
Bosnian keeper Vasilj had a nightmare in Freiburg. He looked nervy with his handling, gave away possession a couple of times while playing out from the back and should have done much better in at least three of the goals. His misjudgement of Wirtz's free-kick, which was straight down his throat, could be his worst moment of the night.