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The German national team suffered an embarrassing defeat in qualifying for the World Cup.

After the victories against Iceland and Romania, Joachim Löw's team lost 1: 2 (0: 1) against North Macedonia.

The victory of the blatant outsider was deserved, because the DFB-Elf were far too pompous and, especially in the second half, created far too few chances.

In the first half, Germany also missed the best opportunities.

Leon Goretzka failed with his violent shot from eleven meters on the crossbar (9th minute), Serge Gnabry chased the ball freestanding over the goal (34th), and Kai Havertz messed up the ball in front of North Macedonia goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski.

This took revenge shortly before the break.

Goran Pandev took advantage of a positional error in the German defense and shot his team in the lead (45th).

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Even after the break, Germany initially had a hard time dealing with the self-sacrificing guests.

Only a penalty brought the balance.

Leroy Sané was fouled by his opponent in the penalty area.

Ilkay Gündogan, who led the team onto the pitch as captain in Duisburg, safely converted the penalty to 1-1 (63rd).

Gündogan converts his penalty safely to equalize

Source: dpa / Thilo Schmuelgen

13 minutes later there should have been a penalty on the other side when Emre Can cleared the ball after a corner kick from the guests.

Referee Sergei Karasev did not whistle, however, and the Russian could not count on the help of a video referee in qualifying for the World Cup.

Werner stumbles free-standing

In the final phase, Germany increased the pressure.

Substitute Timo Werner should have put the DFB-Elf in the lead.

After great preparatory work by Gündogan, the FC Chelsea striker stood free in front of North Macedonia's goalkeeper.

Werner only had to push the ball into the goal, but shot himself with his left foot - the ball rolled out of the way.

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A mistake that the guests immediately punished.

The German defense let their opponents do theirs.

Kimmich and Rüdiger did not get into the duels.

Eljif Elmas only had to push the ball over the line to make it 2-1 for North Macedonia after preliminary work by Ademi (85th).

Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who was in goal instead of Manuel Neuer, had no chance.

Eljif Elmas and Stefan Spirovski celebrate the decisive goal to make it 2-1

Source: dpa / Federico Gambarini

Germany no longer reared up and delivered a poor picture in the last competitive game before the European Championship.