After the 3-0 win over Austria on Friday Joachim Löw’s side are looking for another three points against the Faroe Islands, who are currently sitting bottom of the group table with no return from their seven matches played. It should
Germany v Austria: Match Analysis and Player Ratings
The Allianz-Arena in München would see Germany resume their World Cup qualifying campaign, and while a number if team goals and personal milestones would be met, there is still a way to go yet. Having the 3-3 draw against Paraguay
Missions and Milestones met in München
So, after last month’s rather painful 3-3 draw against Paraguay in Kaiserslautern, it’s back to the serious stuff with the first match of the World Cup double header against Austria at Munich’s Allianz Arena. Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw will be looking
Germany v Paraguay: Match Analysis and Player Ratings
The first match of the 2013/14 season – and indeed the first tentative steps on the road to next year’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil – would be taken on a dry evening in Kaiserslautern’s Fritz-Walter-Stadion. The opposition: Paraguay, a
Paraguay. Peinlich.
Usually the first early season friendly fixture sees a German side packed with youngsters, but for what I think is the first time in his tenure as Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw has named a close to full-strength starting eleven – with
2013/14 Kicks off in Kaiserslautern
It’s difficult to believe how quickly the last few months have gone – maybe it has been the exceptionally decent weather. When I last looked at the match countdown there would be more than ninety days until Germany’s opening friendly
A schizophrenic display in chilly Nürnberg
There’s no coverage here in the UK once again – ESPN are showing Scotland against Serbia – so it’s find the stream time again. I manage to find a pretty stable one from Al Jazeera, with commentary in English. Bonus.
Professional, workmanlike, and three more points safely in the bag.
With the game not being show here in the UK it was stream time again, and luckily I was able to find a decent and fairly stable pipeline of ARD’s coverage where I was greeted by the familar tones of
A Strikerless Mannschaft?
Fritz Walter. Uwe Seeler. Gerd Müller. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. Rudi Völler. Jürgen Klinsmann. Oliver Bierhoff. Miroslav Klose: over the years, Germany has always been blessed with a centre-forward that anyone can call world class. For as long as we all can
France v Germany: Match Analysis and Player Ratings
As had been the case in 2012, Germany would kick off their footballing year against France – the second in two pre-arranged friendly encounters between the two sides. In Bremen the French had gone away with a 2-1 win against
Inevitably, the flies start dropping…
I sometimes wonder why we still bother with these friendly matches. Unless they serve some sort of purpose – the hastily-arranged fixtures packed in before every major tournament springs to mind – there is just no real point. Fans pay
Netherlands v Germany: Match Analysis and Player Ratings
This was billed as a prestige friendly to end the calendar year, and seen by some as the third chapter in a three-part series that had started with the Mannschaft’s 3-0 win in Hamburg a year previously. Given the almost