Germany or England
Today is the one of the important and interesting days in the World Cup in Africa 2010, England fans will know whether they can continue watching the World Cup with a keen interest in looking at potential opposition, or whether they will be forced to look on as jealous spectators watching other teams progress through the tournament with playing Germany soon.
These are the knock-out stages of the World Cup, and in every game from now on the aim is to win. England’s inability to top their group has forced the match between themselves and Germany, and arguably created a more difficult path for progression through the tournament, but the fact remain the same Germany and England must win!
Germany made a flying start to the World Cup and looked by far the most impressive of the so called “big” teams, although admittedly it was only against a disappointing 10-man Australia that they swept aside 4-0. Since that win the Germans have looked a bit shaky as their young side limped into the last sixteen rather than at the canter it first looked like they would do.
In contrast, England started off very poor against the USA and got worse against Algeria and with one lucky goal this is where they are now. That led to a barrage of criticism from the press before they finally managed to put in a performance in the last group game against Slovenia, although many England fans will have wanted a greater winning margin than the 1-0 scoreline that game ended up being because if you havent seen the goal, watch and you will know how lucky was England Team same as USA but this is football end of the day and goals count.
Germany coach Joachim Low expects Bastian Schweinsteiger, Jerome Boateng and Mesut Ozil to be fit after picking up knocks in their last match against Ghana. Cacau, who played up front in that game, will miss out after pulling a stomach muscle in training, but with Miroslav Klose returning from suspension there should be no real problem in Germany naming their strongest possible starting line-up, which should be:
Germany (4-2-3-1): Neuer, Lahm, Friedrich, Mertesacker, Boateng, Khedira, Schweinsteiger; Muller, Podolski, Ozil, Klose.
For England, Fabio Capello will be boosted by the fact that all of his 23-man squad were able to take part in training today, especially as there are some concerns regarding the ankle of Wayne Rooney. Those concerns thankfully appear to be unfounded.
There isn’t much expected in the way of changes to the starting line-up although the return to fitness of Ledley King and return from suspension of Jamie Carragher will ensure that Capello does have a mild selection headache as he decides to either slot one of those two players back into the back four or whether or not to stick with Matthew Upson who performed so well against Slovenia. I would expect the England team to be:
England (4-4-2): James, Johnson, Upson, Terry, A Cole, Milner, Lampard, Barry, Gerrard, Rooney, Defoe.
Many Turkish people will be watching World Cup today all over the World and we all support both teams because as you know that we have good connections with both so lets see who is going to make us happy today. However Capello is not that worried because maybe he knows the result already. Certainly needs some improvments and dont know what to say about Germany because they have done well so far. Have Fun and good luck to both teams.
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