Well, it’s less than twelve hours until the Mannschaft kick off their first match of 2012 against France in Bremen – and time for an update on the team line-up. Despite rumours circulating that he was not completely fit –
Bremen Bulletin
More injuries, and the Kicker line-up…
As as usual form in the days leading up to any match, there has been the usual spate of weekend injuries that has affected the team that will line up on Wednesday in Bremen against France.
Germany v France: Squad News
The 22-man squad has just been named for next week’s friendly international against France in Bremen, and with the Euro finals fast approaching there are no surprises or new names. The squad has a slightly weaker look to it on
Ukraine v Germany post-match review and ratings
On the face of things, pulling the score back to 3-3 having been 3-1 down at half-time is no mean achievement. However this only tells half the story on an evening that saw an unnecessarily exciting encounter shaped wholly by
The Squad for the Ukraine and the Netherlands
Next week we see the Nationalmannschaft in two rather tasty-looking fixtures: away in Kiev against Euro 2012 co-hosts the Ukraine and then what should should be a classic at Hamburg’s AWD Arena against old rivals the Netherlands – twenty-three years
A perfect ten, job done.
So the qualifying group that started in Brussels against Belgium last September is over, and has concluded with yet another satisfactory home victory over the same opposition to cap off a highly successful campaign. With a perfect record of ten
Ten out of ten?
Tomorrow evening Germany take on second-placed Belgium in Düsseldorf, in what will hopefully be a gala sign-off to what has been an encouraging and highly satisfactory qualifying campaign. While the game is technically meaningless for the Mannschaft there is still
Kicker’s XI and Deutschlands junge Türken
Kicker has just published its starting XI for the upcoming match against Turkey, and I still have to wonder where they get some of their ideas from. While nearly everybody else seems to have selected a back line of Badstuber,
Team News Update
As promised, here’s my update on the squad for the up-coming double header against Turkey and Belgium, and my selected lineup. Jogi Löw has made things easy this month by making few changes to the squad selected for the last
The Götzinho Show
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