Preview: Germany vs. Sweden

June 24th, 2006 | by: Peter |

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Germany vs. Sweden, Munich, 17:00 CET
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THE BIG PICTURE
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any higher the tournament raises the stakes. It’s win or go home for both Germany and Sweden and this will be the final World Cup match for one team until 2010. Germany have that home team advantage (link to bob’s testosterone post) and the tournament’s leading goal scorer in Miroslav Klose. Last time the World Cup was held in Germany, West Germany defeated Sweden on the way to winning it all. Sweden, well, they have a lot of fan support in town and an offense that has been steadily increasing its productivity by one goal a game. Are you going to root root root for the home team or cheer on the underdog?

Teams: Likely formation; shirt numbers, name, caps, goals, coach:

Germany (4-4-2): 1-Jens Lehmann (35-0); 3-Arne Friedrich (39-0), 21-Christoph Metzelder (24-0), 17-Per Mertesacker (26-1), 16-Philipp Lahm (21-2); 19-Bernd Schneider (67-1), 8-Torsten Frings (55-8), 13-Michael Ballack (67-31), 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger (31-7); 20-Lukas Podolski (28-13), 11-Miroslav Klose (58-28) Coach: Juergen Klinsmann

Sweden (4-4-2): 1-Andreas Isaksson (41-0); 3-Olof Mellberg (67-2), 4-Teddy Lucic (84-0), 5-Erik Edman (40-1), 7-Niclas Alexandersson (90-7); 6-Tobias Linderoth (61-1), 9-Fredrik Ljungberg (60-13), 21-Christian Wilhelmsson (32-2), 16-Kim Kallstrom (37-4); 20-Marcus Allback (59-24), 11-Henrik Larsson (92-36) Coach: Lars Lagerback

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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS

Germany

England’s King George I did not speak English. He spoke and wrote only German.

The Italian and German accordion manufacturers have cornered the market.

The last words of Albert Einstein will never be known. They were spoken in German & the attending nurse did not understand German.

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Sweden

More people read daily newspapers in Sweden than anywhere else in the world.

Sweden has a problem with tourists stealing their “Moose Warning” signs.

Children’s book character Pippi Longstocking was Swedish.

Swede Gideon Sundback perfected the design of the zipper.

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hoa

I always love the underdogs (well, except Brazil). I would love to see a Sweden victory over the German. But I feel that it would be very very difficult for them to beat Germany, a team which has good players at all the three positions on the pitch. And Germany is playing at home, just a huge advantage!!
Hopefully the two teams will play well and in good spirit. and no bad calls from the ref please!!!
Bidemi

Ibrahimovic is fit and ready to play. Beware, Germany.
OPKO

The battle of the countries which produce Europe’s best luxury sedan’s. Will it be BMW/AUDI/Benz or VOLVA/SAAB?

This should be a REALLY FUN game to watch!
http://brazil.worldcupblog.org/ Euler

I believe Germany will win. Keep the home crowd happy and waiting to see if they will have a re-match against Brazil.
Deviilz.

Germany’s odds :
1 goal advantage to Sweden.
Can the Germans win by 1 goal or more margin..?
avenue

I cross my fingers for Sweden, not because Germany eliminated Poland in group A (it was Polish team fault of course), but simply because in my opinion German team is not in its top form and Sweden should take advantage of it. Go, Sweden !
DerLude

i really looking forward to this game… it will be awesome.
it will be very interesting too see how our defense will look like in “real” game against 3 swedish attackers… will be hard but GER will win this one.

have a look at phillip lahm … hope he makes one amazing goal again…

thats it for the moment i getting nervous wish GER the best and greetings at you guys outside of germany ;)

have fun and enjoy the Worlcup
avenue

I hope Klose or Podolski will score a goal.. But still, at the end Sweden should win.
DerLude

germany should win because i dont want to cry the rest of the day , also of the cup…

just for axample

54*74-1990= :P
(reality theory)

@avenue GER-POL was an amzing game thanks for my heart attacks ;) even dont know why poland plays so bad? can you explain? good team for sure!
http://www.aresthetics.ch/trav Adrian Wagner

Hm. That’s gonna be a close one. Germany will certainly not to get scoring goals like they did in the group stages. So far, I’m a little bit disappointed with the Swedes though.
None of them really ‘mean’ anything to me, so I don’t wish for a particular winner, but for a good game.
DerLude

congrats to australia by the way !

good job, hope you had a good party
DerLude

mhhhh im so nervous cant wait anymore … sry for this senseless post…

GO GEEEEERMANYYYYY

(1:0 / 3min. klose) hope so
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