Löw’s Lineups Against Liechtenstein (28.3) & Wales (01.4)

Here are the lineups for the upcoming qualifiers.

Tor: René Adler (Bayer Leverkusen), Robert Enke (Hannover 96), Tim Wiese (Werder Bremen)

Abwehr: Andreas Beck (1899 Hoffenheim), Arne Friedrich (Hertha BSC), Andreas Hinkel (Celtic Glasgow), Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), Marcel Schäfer (Vfl Wolfsburg), Serdar Tasci (VfB Stuttgart), Heiko Westermann (FC Schalke 04)

Mittelfeld: Michael Ballack (FC Chelsea), Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen), Thomas Hitzlsperger (VfB Stuttgart), Marcell Jansen (Hamburger SV), Marko Marin (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Simon Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen), Bastian Schweinsteiger (FC Bayern), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburger SV)

Angriff: Mario Gomez (VfB Stuttgart), Patrick Helmes (Bayer Leverkusen), Stefan Kießling (Bayer Leverkusen), Lukas Podolski (FC Bayern)

Podolski is back! Klose is injured!

Good to see Schäfer, Hinkel, and Beck back. Not too keen (in order of increasing disappointment) on Frings, Hitzlsperger, and especially Westermann given another chance to screw up. Now did Özil get sold to Turkey or did Jansen replace him? Actually Özil got called up to the U-21 and I guess Jansen deserves another shot after scoring a lot lately. At the very least he is no longer in defense, unlike Westermann who will almost certainly start and gift a goal away. I bet he’ll be exposed even against Liechtenstein. Surely we have someone else to use? Let’s see what happens.

What do you guys think? Löw expectations?
Let’s hope for 6 points and for our strikers, especially Gomez, to actually score a few.

Lineup Against Liechtenstein

Die deutsche Aufstellung: Enke – Beck, Mertesacker, Tasci, Lahm – Schweinsteiger, Ballack, Hitzlsperger, Jansen – Gomez, Podolski

Look at it this way, it could have had Westermann.