The germans failed to score twice in this World Cup, lost both games 0-1. Defences that succumbed too easily they beat easily, sticking four past the aussies, England and Argentina, then three past Uruguay. That is no coincidence, the aussies made too many defensive mistakes, England gifted the Germans the first two goals and Argentina were poor defensively. Yesterday the Uruguayan keeper spilled a shot for the first and the winner came from a poor defensive attempt at a clearance by Godin (?)
I reckon 2/3 or more of the German goals in this World Cup came from defensive errors, 2+ vs Argentina (sliding tackles not getting the ball in the box), three vs England (poor positioning by defence), two vs Uruguay (as above), can't remember how many of the aussie goals but they were poor defensively etc
But you can say the Germans were efficient in forcing or capitalising on those mistakes. If Reina pumped the ball forward into such a wide gap we'd be calling him a genius and he'd get an assist, but because it was against England, Neuer's (?) assist is down to poor positioning despite the keeper and rest of the Germans seeing and exploiting it. Cuts both ways I guess, but had the defence been on the ball then that long ball would have been dealt with - in fact James started to come and tracked back so it could still have been dealt with, Reina would have dealt with it