"I wanted to freshen up the team a bit, " Loew said.

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"We kept him going backwards, " Pavlik's trainer Jack Loew said.

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"England were better, " Loew said.

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"It is an immense happiness that I am feeling, " said Germany coach Joachim Loew.

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"We said from the start that we wanted to play for a win here, and so go forward, " said Germany coach Joachim Loew.

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"After three games and three victories I was certainly satisfied, " said Germany coach Joachim Loew, who is now considered a sort of Zen master of German soccer.

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"Sitting behind the window in the stands was really difficult, " said 48-year-old Loew.

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Klinsmann said he favored the open, attacking soccer displayed by his German team, where assistant Joachim Loew was in charge of tactics.

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