Comments on: Starting The Year On A Low

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:22:52 +0000

@jocamryn
Nach nun zwei Niederlagen in Folge mit Top-Kader (1. Halbzeit gegen Norwegen) muss Jogi sich allmählich Gedanken machen.

@diana
He’s our, it’s over, and it has been over for a long time.
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/nationalelf/startseite/artikel/504542/

@Armando
That would be a bad idea for 2010.

By: Armando

Armando — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:51:52 +0000

This is how Germany should play:

4-4-2 (or 4-3-3)

Lehmann
Hinkel Mertesacker Metzelder Lahm
Schweinsteiger Ballack Frings Podolski (Ballack on the left and Frings in the middle with a 4-3-3)
Helmes Klose (Podolski here for the 4-3-3)

By: diana

diana — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:00:16 +0000

Off-topic but still relating to the national team. Nick, I thought I better bring this to your attention. I read this on the kicker website (the article is on Google Translate actually) – http://64.233.189.101/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&u=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/nationalelf/startseite/artikel/504487&tbb=1&usg=ALkJrhgsqNTVWE-lro4gyPjQIKE2__YujQ

By: jocamryn

jocamryn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:51:38 +0000

The Poldi/Klose pair needs to be cemented. Start building a alternate Gomez/(Fill in the blank) pair. I long for the WM 2006 form of the first pair.

This game seemed more of a testing ground for the next Generation of players, so really not much weight can be put on the outcome.

I do agree, it’s time to start grooming Ballack’s successor. Freidrich?

By: angela

angela — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:51:38 +0000

I am really hopeful that Marin will start to see more decent playing time. I really would like to see what all he has to offer this team. I think that he has a lot of potential that isn’t currently being utilized to the fullest.

Per is and probably always will be one of my favorites on the German NT.