'He earned it' - Nagelsmann reacts to Goretzka's impressive Germany return - video Dailymotion

Leon Goretzka scored the winning goal in Germany's 2-1 win over Italy, on his return to action after 16 months

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00:00We brought Toni Kroos back to that position and that's how we decided.

00:08But I never said, and I'm not going to say that Leon is a bad character,

00:13he's a top character.

00:15The conversation was good and open, he said his opinion, I said mine,

00:18and in the end we shake hands and say we want the same common denominator

00:23that we always had.

00:24We always had a very good relationship.

00:26He fought a lot for me back then at Bayern, I have to mention that,

00:30which I thought was very, very good.

00:34And we found the denominator.

00:37I think everyone knows that conversations like this,

00:40when you send a message that you're not at the World Cup,

00:44are not very pleasant, I think that's perfectly clear.

00:47And I'm glad he came back like that.

00:50He deserved it.