sure Australia did make them look good for most of it, but even still the Germans played some nice football. Lahm was progressive, that Uzil looked clever. Too soon to tout them for winners, but i wouldn't bet against them.
Australia though will now struggle to come out of the group stages. Losing Cahill is a major blow, a horrible decision from the ref. Neil and Moore look slooooow and credit to them for still getting forward in towards the end there's not much guile to their play, not enough creativity going forward.
Maybe a german fan can answer me this, but why isn't podolski playing upfront? is it a lack of options of the wing? sure they played really well and i've seen him play a lot on the left, but with such a good goalscoring record for germany i thought they'd make more of him, klose seems a bit past it, despite getting the goal.
anyway you'd back germany and ghana now for progression
Australia though will now struggle to come out of the group stages. Losing Cahill is a major blow, a horrible decision from the ref. Neil and Moore look slooooow and credit to them for still getting forward in towards the end there's not much guile to their play, not enough creativity going forward.
Maybe a german fan can answer me this, but why isn't podolski playing upfront? is it a lack of options of the wing? sure they played really well and i've seen him play a lot on the left, but with such a good goalscoring record for germany i thought they'd make more of him, klose seems a bit past it, despite getting the goal.
anyway you'd back germany and ghana now for progression
Germany definitely seem much better than expected, but I can't for the life of me work out how much better, that's how bad Australia were. Their next group games will be interesting to see.
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Germany looked good
- 13/06/2010 09:46:44 PM
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”Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.” *NM*
- 13/06/2010 09:48:18 PM
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At least somebody actually scored some goals.....the soccer games have been.....
- 13/06/2010 09:52:05 PM
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a 0-0 can still be a thriller
- 13/06/2010 09:57:11 PM
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Choose your sport, baseball, soccer, football, baseball, hockey.....0 - 0 = BORING 
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- 13/06/2010 10:13:50 PM
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- 13/06/2010 10:13:50 PM
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It wasn't worth getting up at 4:30 to see, that's for sure
- 13/06/2010 09:55:40 PM
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even though everyone plays each other
- 13/06/2010 10:02:06 PM
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Well, I have to hold on to something
- 13/06/2010 10:06:27 PM
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hey it's definitely not out of reach, the hardest game is behind them
- 13/06/2010 10:16:01 PM
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Would I do something like that? 
- 13/06/2010 10:18:48 PM
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- 13/06/2010 10:18:48 PM
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Some truly shocking defending from Australia.
- 13/06/2010 10:46:21 PM
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When you have to steal your players from Turkey and Brazil it shouldn't count *NM*
- 13/06/2010 11:03:54 PM
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- 13/06/2010 11:03:54 PM
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Look at it this way: it's better than stealing them from Canada. 
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- 13/06/2010 11:09:50 PM
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- 13/06/2010 11:09:50 PM
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No stealing involved
- 14/06/2010 01:42:22 AM
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- 14/06/2010 01:42:22 AM
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It's called me joking because I can't make any serious comebacks 
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- 14/06/2010 07:42:04 AM
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- 14/06/2010 07:42:04 AM
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