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
Just checked the Kicker website, and the injury issues are adding up. Neuling Marco Reus is definitely out of the Uruguay game, and given that this was the fixture he might have been looking to start, it is looking unlikely
Germany’s final competitive fixture of 2010 against Kazakhstan garnered the desired result – though it was a well-earned victory. The 3-0 result may have made things look convincing, but for the first forty-eight minutes the unheralded Kazakhs gave as good
Kazakhstan. A country unknown to many, and one that would have been unknown to many more were if not for the film about its allegedly most famous son Borat Sagdaev. A country famous for a weird, peasant-like people, bizarre public
So, what had been billed as Germany’s toughest fixture of the group – with it being seen by some as something of an “away” fixture in a Berlin Olympiastadion bustling with loud supporters clad in Turkish red and white –