Bastian Schweinsteiger has laid some of the blame towards Pep Guardiola for Germany’s decline on the world stage. Since winning the World Cup in 2014, Die Mannschaft were eliminated at the group stage in 2018 and 2022.
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We were kind of losing our values,” he told talkSPORT. “I think most of the other countries were looking at Germany as a fighter, we can run until the end and everything.