Schweinsteiger left ‘out of breath’ with Euro goal

German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer then made a fine save from Yevhen Khacheridi and Jerome Boateng made a spectacular clearance off his own line as Ukraine pressed for an equaliser.

The world champions produced a good attacking display, but they came under fire defensively in the first half of the match.

Expressing its “utter disgust” over three days of disorder in Marseille, European soccer’s ruling body said it warned both football associations that “it will not hesitate to impose additional sanctions… including the potential disqualification of their respective teams from the tournament, should such violence occur again”. Germany’s Xavi ironically plays for Real Madrid, and tonight he ran the show, completing 112 passes, the most in the competition so far.

Moments later, Mykhaylo Fomenko’s team had a goal ruled out with Artem Fedetskyi offside in the build-up.

Germany face rivals Poland on Thursday before ending their Group C campaign against Northern Ireland next Tuesday. “We’ve played them twice and of course we lost once”, Loew said.

“It was unbelievable for that to happen, it’s the kind of thing you can only wish for, but the most important thing is the team wins”, he told ARD television.

Mario Gotze also shook Low’s hand after being replaced by Germany captain Schweinsteiger in the 90th minute.

It was the defender’s first worldwide goal.

Despite the positives to Germany’s performance tonight, they often looked disheveled defensively, and Mats Hummels’ organizing influence was sorely missed alongside longtime partner Jerome Boateng.

One game in and three points closer to topping Group C, Germany’s European Championship is off to the start they sought, late Schweinsteiger addition or not.

Schweinsteiger appeared as a 90th-minute substitute to a rapturous reception, and the noise levels among the Germany fans reached a peak when the Manchester United man converted Mesut Ozil’s cross with nearly the final kick of the match.

“We are not yet there where we need to be to win the tournament, but we are on our way”, said Kroos, who earned the man-of-the-match award for pulling the strings in midfield and helping in defense when needed.

We haven’t shown yet everything that we have to show.

“We have to forget about it now and move onto the next match”. German police said they arrested 21 known hooligans who tried to get across the border.

An already flowing encounter opened up further after the restart, and it didn’t take Kroos long to enforce himself on the game by pinging Pyatov’s left post from the edge of the area.

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