Re: Ze German Thread

[rwo power]

Arrggl... Looks like the people outside of Germany did it and convinced the DFB to do a rebranding and actually call our good ol' Fußballnationalmannschaft "Die Mannschaft" only from now on

Please excuse me while I do a couple of head-desks now...



http://www.dfb.de/news/detail/dfb-praesentiert-neue-wort-bild-marke-die-mannschaft-124530/

[VivaStPauli]

The humanity.

Die arme Sprache.

[rwo power]

I just hope they will find something more creative for the ladies...

[Hapless_Hans]

ffs

that's what you get when you have a BWL moron like Bierhoff as brand manager and commercial laison.

[VivaStPauli]

Liked Hermann, Hector, and Rudy looked promising despite being horribly out of position for the equalizer. The US lead was just due to nobody giving a shit, that's Germany in friendlies, it's not like it surprised any of us.

But can we still sack Löw? That would be neat.

[rwo power]

Löw hates Tony Jantschke, and he is better than all defenders that were on the pitch today.

[rwo power]

Line-Up German NT for the matches against Poland and Scotland:

GKs: Manuel Neuer (Bayern München), Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona), Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96)

Defense: Jerome Boateng (Bayern München), Emre Can (FC Liverpool), Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund), Jonas Hector (1. FC Köln), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (FC Valencia), Sebastian Rudy (1899 Hoffenheim)

Midfield: Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen), Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund), Christoph Kramer (Bayer Leverkusen), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Müller (Bayern München), Mesut Özil (FC Arsenal), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray Istanbul), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Andréé Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United).

Forwards: Mario Götze (Bayern München), Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg), Kevin Volland (1899 Hoffenheim).

Source: http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/nationalelf/633938/artikel_loew-beruft-can-und-etliche-rueckkehrer.html

[Hapless_Hans]

"Defense: Emre Can"

Löw

Now he's copying Brendan Rodgers too

[rwo power]

Löw ostracizing Gladbach's players again.

[dostoevsky]

Whilst I know it's meaningless, the way players are categorised in these call ups really bugs me. Whilst I understand the argument for listing Mueller, Reus and Shirley as midfielders - though I don't know what Poldi is doing there - why is Goetze then a forward?

At least they're not simultaneously listed with someone like De Sciglio, as under Conte.

[dostoevsky]

Löw ostracizing Gladbach's players again.

Angry at them for costing me in the Last Man Standing game, good riddance.

[rwo power]

(Re: Good riddance)

BTW, the categories are actually from SSNHD. Kicker kept midfield+forwards together in one block.

[Hapless_Hans]

Unless this is meant to be Poldi's farewell game I have no clue how Poldi continues to be in there.

[rwo power]

Yeah. Patrick Herrmann should be in there instead.

[dostoevsky]

Ah, that makes far more sense then.

It would be fitting for Poldi to finish up against Poland in a way. I doubt that is what this is though, more likely Loew sticking with those who won him the World Cup. Fortunately for you guys you have a relatively young squad, so you won't suffer as we did under Lippi.

[urbaNRoots]

This is not a charity game for the Herrmann's to get called up, the game against Poland is the most important game Germany will have in these qualifications and Podolski is far more likely to be an effective sub.

Based on what Löw had to say in his press conference, I think the team will be:

Neuer; Rudy, Boateng, Hummels, Hector; Kroos, Schweinsteiger; Müller, Özil, Schürrle; Götze;

That or Müller upfront and Götze in his place.

[urbaNRoots]

Official line-up:

#GER: Neuer, Hector, Boateng, Hummels, Can, Schweinsteiger (C), Kroos, Müller, Özil, Bellarabi, Götze #ssnhd #GERPOL

Bellarabi instead of Schürrle is a certainly interesting, probably unpopular decision.

[rwo power]

Dunno if not fielding André Schürrle is so unpopular. Karim Bellarabi played more and better than him recently.

[iftikhar]

So, Emre was in the starting XI . Where did he play? How was he!

[VivaStPauli]

He played at RB, and he started... Meh, approaching shitty for the first 10 or so minutes, lots of misplaced passes and such, but he rapidly got better and kept on improving throughout the match. Won a couple of important challenges and had mostly stopped misplacing passes by the 2nd half. All in all he did probably ensure he'll get called up again.

He even got pretty close to grabbing an assist. For a kid of that age in a defensive role it was a pretty impressive performance, actually.

[iftikhar]

He played at RB , and he started... Meh, approaching shitty for the first 10 or so minutes, lots of misplaced passes and such, but he rapidly got better and kept on improving throughout the match. Won a couple of important challenges and had mostly stopped misplacing passes by the 2nd half. All in all he did probably ensure he'll get called up again.

He even got pretty close to grabbing an assist. For a kid of that age in a defensive role it was a pretty impressive performance, actually.

[VivaStPauli]

Well TBH he did well at RB, and even Löw admitted he sees Can as more at home at DM, and says he would usually consider him an optimal RB only if they were playing a 3-man defense, so apparently he too sees him more centrally.

Either way, whether Can is a natural RB or not, he did well there, and against a Poland team that really was playing quite good. That was one of the classier international matches I've seen in a while.

[RealGunner]

Löw: "Gündogan made all the difference in terms of stability. I think he's now back to where he was two years ago."

[rwo power]

Line-Up German NT for the matches against Ireland and Georgia:

GKs: 1 Manuel Neuer (Bayern München), 22 Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), 12 Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona)

Defense: 17 Jérôme Boateng (Bayern München), 14 Emre Can (FC Liverpool), 6 Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund), 3 Jonas Hector (1. FC Köln), 5 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), 2 Shkodran Mustafi (FC Valencia), 4 Sebastian Rudy (1899 Hoffenheim)

Midfield/Forwards: 16 Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen), 19 Mario Götze (Bayern München), 21 Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund), 20 Christoph Kramer (Bayer Leverkusen), 18 Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), 23 Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg), 13 Thomas Müller (Bayern München), 8 Mesut Özil (FC Arsenal), 10 Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray Istanbul), 11 Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), 9 André Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg), 7 Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United), 15 Kevin Volland (1899 Hoffenheim)

Source: http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/nationalelf/636354/artikel_premiere-loew-laedt-leno-ein.html

[iftikhar]

Line-Up German NT for the matches against Ireland and Georgia:

GKs: 1 Manuel Neuer (Bayern München), 22 Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), 12 Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona)

Defense: 17 Jérôme Boateng (Bayern München), 14 Emre Can (FC Liverpool), 6 Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund), 3 Jonas Hector (1. FC Köln), 5 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), 2 Shkodran Mustafi (FC Valencia), 4 Sebastian Rudy (1899 Hoffenheim)

Midfield/Forwards: 16 Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen), 19 Mario Götze (Bayern München), 21 Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund), 20 Christoph Kramer (Bayer Leverkusen), 18 Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), 23 Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg), 13 Thomas Müller (Bayern München), 8 Mesut Özil (FC Arsenal), 10 Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray Istanbul), 11 Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), 9 André Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg), 7 Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United), 15 Kevin Volland (1899 Hoffenheim)

Source: http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/nationalelf/636354/artikel_premiere-loew-laedt-leno-ein.html

I think it's 10 years since a Liverpool player made it to the German Machine...err Team.

[RealGunner]

Bastian dropped apparently


about time.

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