Player Ratings – Germany vs Italy
Once again Germany exits in the semi final stage and once more to a familiar opponent. Tactically outwitted by a smarter team combined with individual mistakes and ultimately poor cohesion in the final...
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Germany 1 – 2 Italy – Löw’s changes prove detrimental as Germany face another...
Germany go out at the semi finals for the third time in four major tournaments after being beaten by an impressive Italian side. Löw’s team were unable to overcome a Balotelli brace in the first half,...
View ArticleClassic EURO Performances – Germany vs Italy – 1996 – “Arrivederci Italia!”
In light of Germany’s elimination against Italy here is a nostalgic, slightly more optimistic, trip down memory lane to a time that was more kind to the German national team. A rare moment in which...
View ArticleInterview – Mesut Özil “We were not fearful”
The German playmaker gave a defiant yet defensive interview in Welt’s Sunday edition discussing the team’s bitter loss to Italy, Joachim Löw and Germany’s impression at the tournament. Germany have...
View ArticleGermany’s EURO 2012 Report Card
Another year, another tournament behind us. Well, for Germany anyways. Against Italy, die Nationalmannschaft suffered their third semi final exit in their last four major tournaments, throwing...
View ArticleBundesliga Fanatic Podcast Episode 58: The Italian curse and an overview of...
Pod regulars Cris Nyari and Niklas Wildhagen welcome Tobias Escher from spielverlagerung.de. The three of them sum up the EURO 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine from a German perspective. Was...
View ArticleMission 2012: German National Team not Quite up to the Task
Mission 2012. A seemingly fitting title for a side that wasn’t quite the out-right favourite of international football. I say wasn’t because in an aesthetic sense, Germany are becoming one of the...
View ArticleI am in Pain!
A long time ago, Paul Simon recorded a song called “Old Friends”. It begins, not with music, but talking, old men and women talking. It starts quietly, barely audibly; suddenly this old man says...
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Can Germany Emulate Spain?
Germany supporters everywhere are still reeling after their disappointing dropout from the EUROs this summer. We learned that Spain are still ahead of the competition and that their quality is so...
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Dead in the air – Germany’s problems on set pieces and what is behind them
The ball goes out and a collective sigh of resignation comes over Germany supporters in Warsaw’s national stadium. Germany just earned a corner against Italy in the semi final of the EUROs but instead...
View ArticleReactions – Germany vs. Italy
Jogi Löw, coach(Germany): “If Italy is 2-0 in front, it is also hard, to turn the match around. We are very disappointed, but we should not make the mistakes. The team played a great tournament.”...
View ArticleThank you for Ruining the Euros, Monsieur Platini!
Jogi Löw has nominated 31 players to his preliminary squad for Euro 2016. Are there any surprises in the list of names? No, but the first match day of the Rückrunde gave room for some worries. The...
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