They say the calculator Luis Enrique with one stone killed two birds,he is avoiding a direct clash with Brazil and also put Germany out of the World Cup by not playing seriously against Japan.His calculations were only right because Germany is an honorable team as they had about 16 minutes with the additional time and they could have let Costa Rica win by getting out of the World Cup also Spain but Germany has a winning mentality and they did play honestly and did not do any calculation.
If you watched the game, which I only did replay, I felt you're right here. He almost purposely made the players look like they need to score, but they were in first half actually walking around a lot, passes 300 to Japan 30 something like that, but I'm glad Germany played properly not to kick Spain out. Players and coaches may say they don't know results but come on, for sure, they cannot avoid overhearing
