Deutschland vs Ghana

So whoeever wins the group 1st has to play Ingerland & thereafter the winner of Mexico v Argies. 2nd finisher has to play USA and thereafter the winner of Korea v Uruguay.

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Germany: Neuer - Lahm, Mertesacker, Friedrich, Boateng - Schweinsteiger, Khedira - Müller, Özil, Podolski - Cacau


Bruderduell!!!

Auf geht's Deutschland!

Hope Boateng has a good match as LB, like he did against Bayern for HSV earlier this season. He is no fullback either, but he has pace.

Auf gehts Deutschland!

I'm out, watching the match with friends later.

ARD now say that Jerome Boateng will play on the right (RB), which means that Lahm is moved to the left.

Whatever, auf gehts Deutschland!

Ozil

almost Boateng....

I'm glad i've money on 2 draws. Don't know why I bother watching you just know Germany will fluke their way 2 2nd spot.

Krauts want to avoid England eh...c**ts.

Entertaining game.

You can see the German fear of playing England.

I get the feeling Germany are gonna fluke their way into the USA/Korea/Uruguay section

I think its more the fear of going out in the GS.
They should play with more confidence and heart ffs

They need a goal. Simple as.

Yep. One goal and we win this wis ease imo.

If its longer 0-0 it there could be more hasty actions...

When Cacau screamed "SHUT THE FUCK UP" at Muller, good thing or bad thing for Germany? I've seen that sparked a team many times, and many times it tore it up.

Alberto wrote:When Cacau screamed "SHUT THE FUCK UP" at Muller, good thing or bad thing for Germany? I've seen that sparked a team many times, and many times it tore it up.

He is clearly not a real german...

Jogi got his scarf out for today again I see.

Still, Germany are pretty shit so far, I think that 4-0 against a 10 men Australia made the team look better then they actually are.

Congrats Germany very good Ozil goal.

stinger wrote:

Özil wrote:boateng is always good enough for an blunder or a red card

friedrich fullback, badstuber centreback

Sounds interesting. How aften Fridrich was playing as full back though?

the whole wc2006 and euro2008

That was the best possible result imaginable

Ghana meet USA and Germany meet England

Super Africa wrote:That was the best possible result imaginable

Ghana meet USA and Germany meet England

I am chuffed to bits with tonight's results.

Don't Panic wrote:

Super Africa wrote:That was the best possible result imaginable

Ghana meet USA and Germany meet England

I am chuffed to bits with tonight's results.

Im happy my avatar at least still makes a bit of sense.
To be honest Australia have been very refreshing with their very direct style and I could have survived if they made it through. Nonetheless this will be absolutely wonderful because I can go out on Saturday and get hammered and if Ghana win it will be great and if not then I can drink it away.

Plus we get armagedon GERMANY VS ENGLAND

Phew....knew that this difficult situation was going to be a real challenge for our young team, and actually expected a close match.

Nervous beginning by us, Ghana played really well, pressed early and made life difficult for us. Our passing was too sloppy at times, not enough movement off the ball, and most importantly, not enough aggression. The latter was likely due to all the bookings a lot of our key players got in the Serbia match, so it was very positive that only Müller got booked today (his first yellow card).

I have to criticise the Werder players today, Mertesacker in particular. This hasn't been his WC so far, he was rather disappointing in the Serbia match already, but today he really had an awful match. He was more or less directly responsible for most of the chances Ghana created. Özil, despite his great goal, was rather disappointing also. He missed another sitter, was too careless at times, quite a few sloppy passes which are not typical for him. After the Australia match, when the Özil wankathon began, I said that his wastefulness could cost us against good teams, that he needs to be more clinical, and it almost did. He redeemed himself with the goal, which was awesome. Hope that this will give him the confidence he needs to score more important goals in the coming matches.
Khedira was a bit disappointing also, especially in the first half. His defensive positioning wasn't good at times. Cacau was a bit anonymous, too. He worked hard and moved a lot, not being very productive though. But to be fair, he didin't get that much support.

Schweinsteiger was MOTM for me, Friedrich had an excellent match, too. Boateng looked relatively comfortable as LB, a mature performance that may have not been perfect, but solid. Neuer had a good match, too. Lahm did well, but he needs to improve the coordination with Mertesacker. Too much space on his side at times.

I'm glad that we won our group and qualified for the next round. Against England, Schweinsteiger will be of utmost importance, hope that he is not seriously injured and can play. It will be important to stick to the 4-2-3-1 system and not listen to wannabe 'experts' like Breitner who propose a 4-4-2. Especially if England continue with the 4-4-2 system which won them the first match today, winning the upper hand in the midfield will be key. Klose will be back, a more 'natural' choice for the lone striker position up front.

Congrats to Ghana for qualifying for the next round, as the only African team. They have a lot of talented players, a good team that could cause a few surprises in the coming weeks. Congrats to the referee also, who had a good match. I had expected the worst.

Bring it on England!

blutgraetsche wrote:Phew....knew that this difficult situation was going to be a real challenge for our young team, and actually expected a close match.

Nervous beginning by us, Ghana played really well, pressed early and made life difficult for us. Our passing was too sloppy at times, not enough movement off the ball, and most importantly, not enough aggression. The latter was likely due to all the bookings a lot of our key players got in the Serbia match, so it was very positive that only Müller got booked today (his first yellow card).

I have to criticise the Werder players today, Mertesacker in particular. This hasn't been his WC so far, he was rather disappointing in the Serbia match already, but today he really had an awful match. He was more or less directly responsible for most of the chances Ghana created. Özil, despite his great goal, was rather disappointing also. He missed another sitter, was too careless at times, quite a few sloppy passes which are not typical for him. After the Australia match, when the Özil wankathon began, I said that his wastefulness could cost us against good teams, that he needs to be more clinical, and it almost did. He redeemed himself with the goal, which was awesome. Hope that this will give him the confidence he needs to score more important goals in the coming matches.
Khedira was a bit disappointing also, especially in the first half. His defensive positioning wasn't good at times. Cacau was a bit anonymous, too. He worked hard and moved a lot, not being very productive though. But to be fair, he didin't get that much support.

Schweinsteiger was MOTM for me, Friedrich had an excellent match, too. Boateng looked relatively comfortable as LB, a mature performance that may have not been perfect, but solid. Neuer had a good match, too. Lahm did well, but he needs to improve the coordination with Mertesacker. Too much space on his side at times.

I'm glad that we won our group and qualified for the next round. Against England, Schweinsteiger will be of utmost importance, hope that he is not seriously injured and can play. It will be important to stick to the 4-2-3-1 system and not listen to wannabe 'experts' like Breitner who propose a 4-4-2. Especially if England continue with the 4-4-2 system which won them the first match today, winning the upper hand in the midfield will be key. Klose will be back, a more 'natural' choice for the lone striker position up front.

Congrats to Ghana for qualifying for the next round, as the only African team. They have a lot of talented players, a good team that could cause a few surprises in the coming weeks. Congrats to the referee also, who had a good match. I had expected the worst.

Bring it on England!

Agree with everything.

Schweini will play. Just a Muskelverhärtung

Ghana are so frustrating with their tendency never to shoot at the right time. They either punt it from 30 yards with no hope or don't hit it quick enough when they do have a good chance in the box.

Still, glad they've gone through and they've got a good chance now of progressing. Would've been a real shame if all African teams had been KO'd.

For German, nice goal by Peter Lorre

But they've set themselves up a horrid 2R match against, oooh The Mighty England

Bring on "The Mighty England"!

In a way, I'm glad that today's performance left a lot of room for improvement. Euphoria would have been the wrong mood prior to the knock-out stages.

debaser wrote:Ghana are so frustrating with their tendency never to shoot at the right time. They either punt it from 30 yards with no hope or don't hit it quick enough when they do have a good chance in the box.

Still, glad they've gone through and they've got a good chance now of progressing. Would've been a real shame if all African teams had been KO'd.

For German, nice goal by Peter Lorre

But they've set themselves up a horrid 2R match against, oooh The Mighty England

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmdG2iNaxE&feature=related

just very briefly

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

we are getting progressively WORSE



the "german" in me thinks: three points + group win = mission accomplished

the KO stage has nothing to do with the group stage

so who cares ?!

the "GERMAN" in me though thinks:

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK



das war ein SUPERGAU

ein TOTALAUSFALL

JÄMMERLICH



the only decent performances tonight were those of

Schweini and Friedrich (maybe Jansen)

the rest were an INSULT to the German SHIRT



more about this tomorrow

I am still too shocked

this game against England is A LOT MORE OPEN than it SHOULD BE

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PS

I blame LÖW 100% for this nonsense



PPS

THIS is the most UNGERMAN Mannschaft I can remember

like

EVER



even the DFB organisation is a FARCE



already we noticed a few days ago that Löw did not have the foggiest when the yellow cards would be cancelled

the JOURNALISTS ALL knew it

even the DFB spokesman knew it

Löw did NOT



Löw also had been completely unaware of the reputation of the Spanish REF

German journalists knew about it though and pointed out that Antic had WARNED the Serbian players about it

God only knows what Siegenthaler is doing



TONIGHT

maybe only tweeds and myself noticed that something was STRANGE

the Germany shirts did NOT match the SHORTS



wahre G

I only noticed it because I have always been impressed about the ALL-BLACK New Zealand uniforms

and also like the current ALL-WHITE England Umbro kit

which is why I was disappointed when Germany presented their current home and away kits as black/white and white/black

TONIGHT though

we were ALL-BLACK: which looked great initially

but then I noticed that the black shorts were those belonging to the white shirts

the Adidas STRIPES of the shorts were WHITE, whereas the stripes on the shirts were GOLD



THIS makes NO SENSE AT ALL

and suggests CHAOS behind the scenes of the Mannschaft DFB operation



think about it

Ä wrote:we are getting progressively WORSE

Yeah, very disappointing. We have to improve a lot with regard to the game against England.

"was erlauben Strunz " gives his grades for the German players (out of 6; 1 being the best)

Neuer: 2
Lahm: 4
Merte: 5
Friedrich:2
Boateng: 4
Schweini:2
Khedira: 5
Müller: 5
Özil:2
Poldi: 5
Cacau: 5



some dodgy stuff, but he IS right

Khedira was a joke

and please, blut

STOP ganging up on Poldi

when the rest of the lot were as bad or FAR WORSE



I am mostly worried about Merte these days

he is being our achillis heel

a bit like Metze two years ago in Austria/Switzerland

Poldi fucks up too many moves and chances otto. At this level, we simply can't afford that, it will cost us against stronger opposition. If he doesn't get his act together soon, Löw has to bench him.

You stop with your silly Nibelungentreue and better start to face the facts.