The final European Championship qualifying fixture against Belgium at Düsseldorf’s Esprit-Arena is just over three hours away now, and is live on ESPN here in the UK which means that all of you lucky readers will get your on-the-spot as-it-happens
It has been an enjoyable evening in Istanbul for the Mannschaft, as they clincially wrapped up what was in the end an easy 3-1 win to take their qualifying group record to nine wins out of nine. It could very
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 qualifying round for the 2012 European Championship is almost at an end, as Joachim Löw’s side finish off their campaign with fixtures in Turkey and at home to Belgium. While the Mannschaft have safely qualified for next year’s finals
With the Nationalmannschaft now safely in the mix for next year’s feast of football in Poland and the Ukraine, and I have now switched into another gear in the hope of having a number of key sections of this site
Like Jogi Löw earlier this week with his 4-1-4-1 formation, I carried out a small experiment on the site. Some of you may have immediately noticed the difference, while others may still be scratching their heads wondering has happened –
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
While the Philipp Lahm story continues with yet more snapshot excerpts from the tabloid Bild, the mundane business of football goes on – and with it the news that Mario Gómez has had to pull out of the national team
After the media blow-up that was the Philipp Lahm saga, it’s back to business today with the just-released squad list for the European Championship qualifier against Austria (2nd September) in Gelsenkirchen and the friendly international against Poland (6th September) in
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
I can only get in a short report of this evening’s match in Vienna, as we are off on holiday this evening… Nach Deutschland! Thankfully this evening’s encounter was a case of all’s well that ends well, with Jogi Löw’s
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