I'm going to have to agree with you on this too HT. The one thing that's stood out for me about Germany is that Low discovered that the average time between receiving and releasing the ball for German players was c2.7 seconds, which he deemed too long, and has worked to reduce that, such that...
Fine, they can counter-attack, and do it brilliantly when that option materialises, but when you have c66% possession, such chances don't materialise very often.