• Holders suffer first opening World Cup defeat since 1982
• Löw: ‘The next game is vital for us, We have to win it’
Joachim Löw accepted his defending champions had been “negligent” and “haphazard” after Germany’s Group F defeat against Mexico in Moscow.
“The next game is vital for us, we have to win it,” Löw said of a team who had lost their opening game at a World Cup for the first time since 1982.
Written by Barney Ronay in Moscow
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