- Frankly, they are due. After so many heartbreaks in tournament play, the law of averages eventually has to lean for them and not against them. Besides, a good omen has already occurred, the Germans have already missed a penalty in this World Cup.
- Like England, Germany has struggled in their last few games. True they dismantled the Aussies but the lost to the Serbs and barely beat Ghana. Certainly not the machine they led us all to believe after the first game.
- Germany is littered with young inexperienced youth who although potentially great, are not yet experienced enough to handle a veteran team littered with international stars.
- England is ready for a goal explosion. They are due to break out of their funk simply because the attacking talent is there.
- Fabio Capello’s decades of experience preparing for big games in club finals will lend itself here as he will surely have some tactical tricks up his sleeve that will perplex the Germans inexperienced lineup.
- Schweinsteiger’s injury could be a killer for German chances. He is the master talisman of their midfield and as he goes so goes the German machine. If he doesn’t play, there is no real replacement for him and if he does play, will he be at 100%?
- Wayne Rooney is overdue for a massive goal breakout. I mean how long can one of the world’s five best players go without scoring a goal or really making his extreme presence in a game?
- Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer’s cutting words of England’s play and Capello’s tactics will be all the motivation that the England players and Capello will need to beat the Germans.
- Apparently England have been working extra hard on penalty kicks and this practice may prove very useful indeed.
- England will win because nearly every expert and every cynic is picking Germany.
Ten Reasons Why Germany Will Beat England:
- Manuel Neuer is simply superior to David James. Neuer is one of the world’s best young keepers while David James has been forever labeled with the most infamous of nicknames, “Calamity James”. Nuff said really
- Germany’s young players are just too good, to fast, too cool under pressure and too German to fear England or any team for that matter. As Sir Alex once put it, they are “Typical Germans).
- Bastien Schweinsteiger’s injury is not so bad that he cannot recover fully in 4 days time. He will take his usual place in the center of the German midfield and guide them expertly to victory.
- Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer was dead on with the criticism he leveled on the English team and especially on Capello’s archaic tactics. Sometimes the truth hurts.
- Wayne Rooney’s lingering ankle problem has simply made him a shadow of his former self and it might be some time before we see the real Wayne Rooney again.
- Joachim Low is a great young manager with bright inventive ideas and will completely out manage the old and stale ideas of Fabio Capello who will then exit in the manner that his other Italian compatriot with old ideas did, Marcello Lippi.
- The game will go to penalties and despite England’s hard work, they will never in a million years beat the Germans in a penalty shootout. It takes more than skill and practice to win a penalty shootout. It takes confidence and arrogance, which is something the Germans have, and the English are in sad need of.
- The ghosts of failures past will continue to haunt the English. 1990, 1996 and all those other losses to the Mannschaft will linger on the minds of a frail and already poor England side.
- Rooney will receive a red card because Thomas Muller winked at him and that will be that. Rooney will lose his cool due to some kind of incident, and it will be curtains for him as he returns to England with his beaten compatriots in disgrace.
- Germany will win because they are playing England. England, the team that wears the Union Jack like a choke collar anytime they make it to the knockout round of a tournament and especially if they have to face the Germans, the Argentines or the Portuguese.
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