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Hansi Flick believes everyone is clamouring to play for Germany after he continued his fine start to life as head coach with a crushing 9-0 win over 10-man Liechtenstein in World Cup qualifying on Thursday.
Germany were in cruise control following Jens Hofer’s early red card, with Ilkay Gundogan, Leroy Sane and Marco Reus adding to a Daniel Kaufmann own goal to put Die Mannschaft 4-0 up at half-time.
Sane added a fifth early in the second period, while a brace from Thomas Muller, a fine Ridle Baku strike and an own goal from Maximilian Goppel sealed the rout late on.
The result meant Flick became the first Germany head coach to win his first six matches in charge, taking the record outright from former boss Joachim Low.
And former Bayern Munich coach Flick said his job is made easier by the desire of Germany’s stars to secure a spot in his first-choice XI.
“Of course I’m satisfied,” he told RTL. “The atmosphere was just fantastic. That was the third home game we had like that. The team and the fans, that’s a good combination.
“We are happy about the quality, everyone wants to join this team, that makes it easy for us.
“It is extremely important that everyone goes along with the way we want to play, and that’s the impression we have.”
Germany, whose progress to next year’s World Cup in Qatar had already been secured before the game in Wolfsburg, wrap up their Group J campaign against Armenia on Sunday.
It has been a routine qualification for the 2014 winners, with eight victories from their nine games so far.
Muller, though, said it is important to not get carried away until they have tested themselves against tougher opposition.
“Of course, you always have to put into perspective the fact that we don’t have any extremely difficult opponents in our group,” he said. “But we always wanted the next and the next goal so it was a great evening.”
Reus shared his team-mate’s sentiments, adding: “It was just nice, but you can’t say how close we are to the top of the world as the opponents weren’t at the level we will be challenged at.
“These games are still good because you are able to practice important things. It was fun.”
