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It may have only been a friendly, but when the sides last met in 2015, the German's needed to rely on a late Lukas Podolski goal to salvage a 2-2 draw in Monchengladbach.
They took the lead just five minutes in, with Julian Brandt setting up Lars Stindl's goal from 12 yards with an excellent cutback.
"We don't all know how fit we are after a long and hard season", said the 21-year-old.
"Australia in the first half didn't really create many opportunities".
His first effort from the edge of the box was blocked, but he placed a follow-up shot under the arms of Germany goalkeeper Bernd Leno to tie the match at 1-1.
With Bayer Leverkusen's Brandt causing mayhem down the right flank, striker Sandro Wagner had two clear chances, a diving header and then a shot, both of which went wide.
Germany face Group B leaders Chile on Thursday evening (8pm) in Kazan, while Australia take on bottom club Cameroon (4pm).
The Socceroos have been unable to defeat Germany in all three of their competitive fixtures against them and have been struggling in their pursuit of a spot in the 2018 World Cup. While this tournament does not seems to be an important for Germany judging by the squad they have sent, they will still want to win this game since it is the German mentality.
Germany joined Chile with three points in Group B after the South American champions defeated Cameroon 2-0 on Sunday.
Much had been made before kick-off of Germany bringing a young squad and their starting line-up had just 138 worldwide appearances between them. We're trying to play a certain way against the very best.
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"(In) the second half, we had a lot of the ball and showed we were probably the team on top of the game", he said.
The changes made from the squad that defeated Saudi Arabia 3 - 2 did not pay dividends for coach Ange Postecoglou on that occasion.
"Good job boys", the defender Boateng tweeted, and midfielder Oezil said on the same social network: "Congrats to the whole team today".
"One thing with this group is that the boys always stick together through thick and thin", he said.
"I am very satisfied, the boys tried to make things work".
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.
"Chile will be a different game, they play with a lot of intensity and we will need to play well over 90 minutes, not just over 60".
Rogic scored his seventh global goal to level the scores late in the first half, firing home from just outside the penalty area with his lethal left foot.
"In the first half, they were just too good for us", conceded Postecoglou.
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