Finally, the Kicker Online and Bild ratings for both the Turkey and Belgium matches have been published – so let’s see how they compare with my scores and with each other.
Turkey and Belgium: The Kicker and Bild Ratings
A Second Serving of Stuffed Turkey
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
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
Squad for Turkey and Belgium
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
Stuffed Turkey…
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 –
The flies are dropping…
Once again, the Mannschaft has been badly hit with illness and injury when closing in on an important tournament qualifier. With Michael Ballack out for the best part of two months and looking increasingly unlikely to wear the Schwarz und
Squad for Turkey and Kazakhstan
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