Comments on: 10 Conclusions: Germany 3-2 Turkey

By: Nobody You Know

Nobody You Know — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:30:11 +0000

What does that mean knowing “shit about football”? One you do in the bathroom (I hope) and the other one takes place on the field. Hope you don’t get that mixed up, Monty!

By: Nobody You Know

Nobody You Know — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:28:45 +0000

Go Germany! Get that Cup (again)… Would’t you agree with me Monte Carlo. If only football experts were able to predict the outcome of a game, why even play? Leave it up to the experts, right Monty. The rest of us, who don’t know the game have to guess, and hope, and wish. Do we at least have a 50% chance to predict the outcome? You tell us, Monte Carlo, you are the expert. You are the only one who knows the game. What will it be?

By: Arminius

Arminius — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:24:55 +0000

Spain will get the cup.
The cup of tea to calm down after failing.

Saludos from Germany

By: Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:34:10 +0000

Hey FengFeng If You really think Germany will win against Spain. You really dont know shit about football.

By: Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:31:17 +0000

The Only reason why Turkey lost this game is F****** RUSTU. He is such a stupid Goal keeper. I will never forgive that bustard. and also Volkan because of that stupid red card. That was so close We could win that cup. But I think Spain will get the cup.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:48:41 +0000

Germany kept attacking after they went 1-0 up against Portugal. Germany kept attacking after they went 2-0 and were unlucky with an offside call. Otherwise Germany could have been 3-0 up before Portugal could even reply. They weren’t mentally in the Turkey game, always a few seconds too slow. It was a bad game and they won. Netherlands lost their bad game. I admire the Dutch for being fair sportsmen and losing when they play bad – have to admit can’t really say the same about the German team – at least not always.

It was a topsy-turvy campaign for Germany. You can be disappointed in them for not being mentally prepared for the Turkey game. It’s like in domestic cup competitions where underdogs often do very well against on paper superior teams. That’s part of football. When the Netherlands beat Luxembourg 1-0 in the qualifiers I didn’t want them to qualify for the Euros, after seeing how Germany put 13 goals past San Marino. Or something like that.

Spain has definitely been the most consistent side in this Euro, played some good at times great football and I can understand that you root for them.

By: maarten

maarten — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:53:53 +0000

Too bad Turkey didn’t win. They were the team that took the inititive, took risks and played like they actually enjoy the game. Of course if you’re german, you hope for a german victory, but for the sake of football, it’s too bad that the Turks didn’t make it.
You’ll probably see the same in the final. Spain will be creative and pressure the Germans to speed the game up, the Germans will try to ‘kill’the game as soon they see a chance. Just because of this, i hope spain will beat germany. Just because they kept attacking after they made 1-0 against Russia. Compare that to Germany – Turkey. The moment Germany was ahead, you’ll find them lying on the grass, complaining to the ref, and no offensive intentions.

By: stefan

stefan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:20:57 +0000

the germans pulled it off but certainly looked a bit shaky out there. as the writer points out, if they win the championship it will have been in spite of their defense. i hope they prevail on sunday but against spain’s form and passing it will be quite a challenge.

i wrote about the cultural issues in germany leading up to the germany/turkey match on my blog for anyone who’s interested.

peace

By: Intan

Intan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:03:57 +0000

No 9 was actually what I thought of right after the match, and it nearly matched your sentence word for word, Jan!

Now that we all know it would be a(promising exciting) Deutschland-Espagnol match, I was actually pairing the German and Spanish players one by one. On paper, the Spanish team (always bloated by world class talent, they are) are clear favorites–and that’s good, since we all know how much the “underdog” tag can push the Germans to play at their best (everyone I know has written off Germany, based on tournament performances so far).

But the German defense has to be the achilles heel for this team. Spain has Puyol and the always excellent Ramos among many other stars who have proven themselves in the tournament. Not only that, Casillas has been doing world class saves (except for the Russia game–he could leave the goal unattended and Spain would still win). Meanwhile, the entire German defense has been inconsistent and Mad Jens himself is the king of inconsistencies (although I thought he did pretty well during the Turkey game). The German defense has let in 6 goals so far while the Spanish defense 3 (not counting the penalty shootout) throughout this tournament.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:48:50 +0000

Well as long as they don’t violate the house rules they are free to say what a bunch of losers Germans are. There are/were Germany trolls as well, who were fabricating stereotypical bullshit over on the Italy blog or who tried to provoke people over on the Dutch blog.

People who hate German football will continue to hate it and they’ll just wait for the moment, when Germany plays bad and wins to try and sell their stereotypes as eternal truths. They’ll wait for Germany to lose to rub it in our face and tell how this team of average players was always overrated. They’ll wait for Germany to play a great game and win to come up with their theories how referees fixed the game in ze Germans favour, how the Germans dived and cheated and they will downplay or plain ignore any decisions that went against Germany.

Maybe the best practise here would be just to ignore it. This frees up time and energy to discuss what actually happened on the pitch. Why Germany played so topsy-turvy this tournament, why Ballack has a tendency to go missing when nothing works, whatever happened to Mario Gomez, how Philipp Lahm scores very few but very awesome goals etc.