Republic of Ireland 1 Germany 6: match report Tonight was a difficult situation, but I have won as a manager in four different countries and I am proud of my record. Although the remaining length of Trapattoni's contract, which runs until Brazil 2014, would make it financially challenging for the Football Association of Ireland to dispense with the 73 year-old's services, anything but a victory against the Faroes would increase the pressure on the Italian to an unprecedented level. But despite a bright start against the Germans, Ireland were comprehensively dismantled once Joachim Löw's team took the lead through the impressive Marco Reus on 32 minutes. Two minutes earlier, the Borussia Dortmund midfielder had been booked for diving in an attempt to win a penalty, but Germany did not need those dark arts to overcome an Ireland team playing without the vastly-experienced quartet of the retired Shay Given and Damien Duff and injured Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne. Expecting the Irish to end Germany's remarkable record of never having lost a World Cup qualifier away from home was one thing, but to do so without their stalwarts of the last decade was bordering on the outlandish and so it proved. Germany displayed the threat on the counter-attack which has typified their game since the 4-1 demolition of England in Bloemfontein at the last World Cup and they ripped Ireland to shreds with their rapier-like attacking. Reus opened the scoring when Seamus Coleman's failure to clear under pressure from Marcel Schmelzer in the penalty area saw the ball drop loose 12 yards from goal, allowing the youngster to guide a right foot strike into the roof of the net. It was a disastrous goal for Ireland to concede as they now had to chase the game against perhaps the best counter-attacking team in international football. They were ripe to be picked off and Germany did so in brutal fashion five minutes before half-time when Reus scored again to double their lead. A breakaway move, sparked by Real Madrid playmaker Mesut Ozil, saw the ball swept out to Jérôme Boateng on the right before the fullback picked out the advancing Reus on the left, who took one touch before beating Keiren Westwood with a searing left-foot strike which arrowed into the far corner. Ireland continued to falter early in the second-half, Ozil scoring from the penalty spot before Miroslav Klose and Toni Kroos took the score to 5-0 just after the hour mark. Germany began to ease off and it appeared as though they were content to settle for an already-emphatic victory, but as the game wore on, Ireland tired and Kroos made it 6-0 with a right-foot strike from the edge of the penalty area in the closing stages. Ireland were now one goal short of the biggest defeat in their history, a 7-0 hammering against Brazil in Uberlandia in 1982, but substitute Andy Keogh reduced the deficit ever so slightly with a diving header two minutes into stoppage time. It may have cut the losing margin, but it was hardly something for the Irish to take as a consolation. Teams details Republic of Ireland: Westwood, Coleman, O'Shea, O'Dea, Ward, McGeady (Keogh 69), McCarthy, Andrews, Fahey (Long 51), Cox (Brady 83), Walters. Goal: Keogh 90 Germany: Neuer, Boateng, Mertesacker, Badstuber, Schmelzer, Muller, Schweinsteiger, Khedira (Kroos 46), Reus (Podolski 66), Ozil, Klose, (Schurrle 72). Goals: Reus 32, 40; Ozil 55 pen, Klose 58, Kroos 61, 83. Referee: N Rizzoli (Italy)