Thomas Müller nets another double as Germany dominate

Thomas Müller nets another double as Germany dominate  Thomas Müller scores his second and Germany’s third goal in the World Cup  qualifi...

Thomas Müller nets another double as Germany dominate
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Thomas Müller scores his second and Germany’s third goal in the World Cup  qualifier against the Czech Republic at Volksparkstadion in Hamburg.

World Cup qualifiers round-up: Thomas Müller scored twice for the second World Cup qualifier in a row to lead dominant Germany to
a comprehensive 3-0 win over Czech Republic in Hamburg on Saturday.

Toni Kroos was also on target to leave the world champions on six points from two games in Group C, alongside Azerbaijan after they beat Norway 1-0 in Baku with an early goal by Maksim Medvedev , and firmly on course for the finals in Russia in 2018.

The Czechs, who have one point, won 3-0 on their last visit to Germany in 2007 in the early days of coach Joachim Löw’s long reign but
never threatened a repeat.

“I’m very satisfied, we had control of the game for the whole time,” said Löw.
“We built up our moves very well from the back. We put together some great combinations and didn’t give our opponents any chance.”
Germany broke the deadlock after 13 minutes when Mario Götze burst down the left, his pass into the area was touched on by Mesut
Özil and Müller scored with a shot which took a slight deflection off a defender.

Germany, who beat Norway by the same score in their opening qualifier last month, continued to carve open the Czech defence with neat interchanges between Müller, Özil,
Julian Draxler and Götze who was playing as a false number nine.
Draxler pinged a shot just wide after Glaze pulled the ball back to him, Müller saw a low drive turned away by Czech goalkeeper Tomas
Vaclik , then Götze dinked the ball wide after a one-two with Müller.

Kroos doubled Germany’s lead four minutes after the restart when he got in front of his marker and placed a sidefooted shot past Vaclik after Joshua Kimmich rolled the ball
across the edge of the area.

Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer made his first save in the 63rd minute when he parried Borek Dockal’s powerful effort and the home team struck again two minutes later, Müller turning in Jonas Hector’s low cross at the near post.

“We could have scored more goals, we have played a very convincing game,” said Müller.
“I’m happy to have scored two.”