Loew angry at Boateng's late-night tryst

Germany coach Joachim Loew has said defender Jerome Boateng 'owes' the team as the Bayern Munich star battles to make the starting line-up to face Portugal in their opening Euro 2012 match on Saturday, AFP reported.

Boateng hit the headlines in Germany at the start of the week after he was photographed in a late-night tryst with glamour model Gina-Lisa Lohfink, 25, in a Berlin hotel shortly before the German team met to fly to Poland on Monday.

"Jerome Boateng is fully focused because after causing these headlines he is a little bit in my debt to me, because frankly I didn't like what I read," Loew said at Thursday's press conference.

"I spoke to him about this and while he was doing all this during his time off, I didn't like what he did.

"He is ready to give 100 percent to prove his critics wrong and he has to prove himself over the next few weeks.”