With seven wins from seven matches, an eighth three-pointer against Austria would guarantee Germany a place at next year’s Euro 2012 finals in Poland and the Ukraine with two games to spare, and they didn’t disappoint what was a sell-out
I am trying something new for the blog this season whenever I can – the “as it happened” match report as opposed to an after-the-event piece. The aim is to try and get the report to have a bit more
Good evening from the Franconian city of Würzburg (OK, this was written the day after the event), where I have just seen the Nationalmannschaft round off the 2010-2011 season with a solid if unspectacular win against a game yet ineffective
OK, so we have what looks like a team line-up for tonight’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Austria in Vienna; deprived of the services of Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marco Reus and Miroslav Klose, Jogi Löw is also without defensive midfielder Sami Khedira
The Jogi Löw era has brought much success, and the raw statistics bear this out. However, the results in friendly fixtures over this otherwise successful period have not been that great, mainly on account of the Nationaltrainer’s use of these
Two games, two contrasting opponents, one 22-man squad. Yes, it’s that time again. Germany’s European Championship qualifying campaign picks up again on the 26th of this month with the home tie in Kaiserslautern against Kazakhstan, and nothing less than a
Germany finished the year with a goalless draw in Sweden – only the third time in seventeen games where they have failed to hit the target. They could not be accused of not trying, as a largely experimental side including
Tomorrow the Mannschaft take on Sweden in Gothenburg in their final game of what has been a highly entertaining year. Remaining true to his policy of using friendly fixtures to blood younger players, Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has pencilled in a
Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has named his squad for the double header against Turkey and Kazakhstan next week, adding Dortmund winger Kevin Großkreutz to what is essentially an unchanged selection. The same twenty-one players selected for the games against Belgium and