Goals by Lars Stindl and Leon Goretzka, either side of a penalty by Julian Draxler, saw Germany home to leave them second in Group B behind Chile, who they face in Kazan on Thursday.
FIFA World Cup champions, Germany, defeated Australia 3-2 in Group B of the 2017 FIFA Confederation Cup inside the Fisht Stadium in Sochi on Monday.
The reigning World Cup champions are without the likes of Toni Kroos, Manuel Neuer and Thomas Muller for the tournament in Russia Russia, with Low experimenting to find a team for the future.
"It is definitely a good thing that not everything went well".
"Robbie Kruse or Mathew Leckie are really fast players and we know them from the Bundesliga".
"Chile is one of the best teams in the world, technically as well as tactically". They have fantastic individual quality and are very versatile tactically in a way that most teams are not. The players know where to make the runs and have incredible power going forward. "They could bring another three or four teams and it would still be the same". Russian Federation is their third appearance at the Tournament of Champions - they went out at the group stage in Mexico in 1999, although managed to claim third place as hosts in 2005, thanks to a 4-3 win over Mexico in their playoff.
But the coach held out hope that his side could improve ahead of their next game against Cameroon. German coach Joachim Low will want his players to play an attractive kind of football, and with Werner and Sando Wagner being good offensive players, he will look for a great display from his forwards. Adapting will be key in this game.
"We lost the thread; we didn't manage the lead well", Low said.
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"One thing with this group is that the boys always stick together through thick and thin", he said. "It will be tough".
They took the lead when Vidal rose above two defenders to power home a header in the 81st minute from a ideal assist by Alexis Sanchez, who had been ruled out of the starting line-up through injury but came on early in the second half.
Subs not used: Marc-Andre ter Stegen (gk), Kevin Trapp, Keren Demirbay, Matthias Ginter, Benjamin Heinrichs, Marvin Plattenhardt, Amin Younes.
- This will be the eighth meeting between these sides; there has never been a draw in matches between the two, with Germany winning five of the previous seven games, and Chile winning two.
Fresh-faced Germany, with only 138 global appearances between the starters, were made to work harder than expected in Group B on Monday.
Germany have won eight and drawn two of their last 10 matches, scoring 31 goals in that time, but their youthful squad could yet prove vulnerable to an upset.
But Australia can take heart knowing that they pushed the world champions, who had outscored opponents 27-1 since the previous time they allowed two goals in a game, a 2-0 defeat to France at Euro 2016.
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