Munich of late and Germany boss Joachim Low has
praised him for silencing his critics.
Germany head coach Joachim Low believes Mario Gotze has
gone a long way towards silencing his critics following his
recent performances for Bayern Munich.
The 23-year-old has scored four times in all competitions this
term so far and bagged a goal and an assist in the 5-1 thrashing
of Borussia Dortmund last weekend.
Gotze has come in for significant criticism during his career with
Bayern to date but Low is confident he is beginning to prove his
talents.
"Gotze has shown the quality he has in recent weeks," Low said
ahead of Germany's Euro 2016 qualifier with the Republic of
Ireland. "He had a few problems for a while with Bayern, but
clubs like that, or Barcelona, Real Madrid, have 17 or 18 world-
class players. And I know Pep Guardiola likes to use rotation to
rest his players.
"I've always said there's no doubt about Gotze for me, because
he is very versatile."
Mats Hummels was publicly critical of Dortmund's performance
in the defeat to Bayern but Low is adamant the comments will
have no impact on the unity within the Germany camp.
"Hummels was not an issue," he said. "I read what he said and
he did not criticise single players. There were things which were
talked about before and which were not executed on the pitch.
And I think a captain has the right to express his disappointment
and criticise things publicly."
Looking ahead to Thursday's game in Dublin, Low
continued: "We expect a team that's very good defensively. We
appreciate that the Irish will be physically stronger than
Scotland. They'll be a very difficult opponent.
"They can make it hard on their opponents and they know how
to defend between the spaces. It's still in their own hands to
qualify directly. We know their mentality, they fight until the very
last minute.
"We must impose our own philosophy, then we'll win. We need
to find solutions. We have to play to our strengths. I'm not
going to make many changes.
"It's a bit unusual as most of our players were still playing last
Sunday. One group has trained while the other recovers, so
we've only had one training session. We need to take this into
account but we're convinced we'll show a good performance."
Former Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp is widely tipped to take the
manager's job at Liverpool this week and Low has backed the
48-year-old as the right choice.
He added: "I don't know the state of negotiations. Jurgen Klopp
was very successful at Dortmund and aroused plenty of
emotion. There are many parallels between Liverpool and
Dortmund, so I can imagine he can bring Liverpool forward."
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