By maintaining a comfortable win against Azerbaijan, Germany maintained its 100% qualification record in the Group A at Euro 2012. This all has assured Germany’s place in the Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland.
With visits from FIFA and UEFA biggies Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, Azerbaijan has now completed over 100 years of football. However, at the start of the match, it was Azerbaijan whose performance was impressive.
Aleksandr Chertoganov produced a long-range effort from the left which went wide. It was the visitors who sealed victory through Schurrle’s close range effort injury time. Before Schurrle added Germany’s third, Azerbaijan had hit the bar at 0-0. Turkey, who are 11 points behind Germany have a game in hand have a chance of catching Joachim Loew’s side.
However, it wasn’t like Germany had their way all through the match. Things went against them when Vugar Nadyrov hit the woodwork for the hosts early on after a defensive blunder by Mats Hummels.