Were Nagelsmann's NI comments 'disrespectful' or 'deflective'?

""It's not easy to defend a lot of long balls and not easy to defend a lot of second balls, so I'm happy with the result," Nagelsmann told BBC Sport NI. "It's not that easy when every set piece and ball that's free on the pitch they play a long ball and attack with 10 players with the second ball. "There are always a lot of players in our own red zone. It's not brilliant to watch, this way of soccer, but it's effective and it's not that easy to defend it. "I think we had 10 or 12 set-pieces to defend, and we only conceded one goal. It's really a strength of the Northern Ireland team. It's not that easy - we have better players but it's not that easy to defend this way of playing soccer.""

""a special style of playing""

""it was a bit disrespectful""

Germany won 3-1 after Isaac Price cancelled Serge Gnabry's early opener and substitutes Nadiem Amiri and Florian Wirtz secured the late goals. Northern Ireland matched Germany for much of the match using long balls and set-piece play to exploit space behind wing-backs. Nagelsmann described that approach as effective and hard to defend despite being unattractive to watch. Germany captain Joshua Kimmich called the approach "a special style of playing." Former Northern Ireland defender Stephen Craigan considered Nagelsmann's characterization to be disrespectful.

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