Goodnight, 2012. Sleep Tight.

That’s right, quite a few people fell asleep during this one.

So, a rather dull close to the footballing year with a goalless draw in Amsterdam, an encounter that saw both goalkeepers have a quiet evening – apart from one brilliant save from Manuel Neuer – as both teams played what were effectively B teams.

This game was shown delayed live, so I will follow with the minute-by-minute report tomorrow. For now, we have the scorecard, which is also pretty dull. At least Roman Neustädter got to make his debut.

v Netherlands, Amsterdam-Arena, Amsterdam 14.11.2012

0-0 (0-0)
– / –

Germany: Neuer – Höwedes, Mertesacker, Hummels, Lahm (c) – L. Bender (82. S. Bender), Gündoğan – Müller (84. Schürrle), Holtby (87. Neustädter*), Reus (90.+2. Draxler) – Götze (72. Podolski)

Netherlands: Vermeer – van Rhijn (46. de Vrij), Heitinga (46. Janmaat), Vlaar, Martins Indi – N. de Jong – Afellay (59. van Ginkel), van der Vaart (72. Emanuelson) – Schaken, Robben (46. Elia) – Kuijt (c)

*International Debut

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)
Assistants: Bertino Cunha Miranda, José Tiago Garcias Bolinhas Trigo (Portugal)
Fourth Official: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

Yellow Cards: – / –
Red Cards: – / –

Attempts on Target: 1 / 3
Attempts off Target: 8 / 4
Corners: 4 / 4
Fouls Committed: 11 / 16

Attendance: 51,000