[07.10.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Re: [10.09.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

According to a Bierhoff interview with the kicker
Robert Enke will be in the squad against Georgia
and Slovakia.

btw: The match takes place at October, 7th.

 

Re: [10.09.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Corrected.

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Clemens Fritz (Werder Bremen), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburger SV) and Jan Schlaudraff (Alemannia Aachen) got nominated for the games vs Georgia and the Slovakei.

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Tor
Robert Enke 24.08.1977 Hannover 96 - -
23 Timo Hildebrand 05.04.1979 VfB Stuttgart 3 -
1 Jens Lehmann 10.11.1969 Arsenal London 41 -

Abwehr
25 Malik Fathi 29.10.1983 Hertha BSC Berlin 1 -
3 Arne Friedrich 29.05.1979 Hertha BSC Berlin 45 -
24 Manuel Friedrich 13.09.1979 1. FSV Mainz 05 3 1
Clemens Fritz 07.12.1980 Werder Bremen - -
2 Marcell Jansen 04.11.1985 Borussia Mönchengladbach 11 -
16 Philipp Lahm 11.11.1983 FC Bayern München 28 2
26 Alexander Madlung 11.07.1982 VfL Wolfsburg - -

Mittelfeld
13 Michael Ballack 26.09.1976 FC Chelsea London 72 32
8 Torsten Frings 22.11.1976 Werder Bremen 61 8
15 Thomas Hitzlsperger 05.04.1982 VfB Stuttgart 18 2
22 David Odonkor 21.02.1984 Betis Sevilla 7 -
19 Bernd Schneider 17.11.1973 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 74 3
7 Bastian Schweinsteiger 01.08.1984 FC Bayern München 38 11
Piotr Trochowski 22.03.1984 Hamburger SV - -

Angriff
9 Mike Hanke 05.11.1983 VfL Wolfsburg 7 1
11 Miroslav Klose 09.06.1978 Werder Bremen 65 33
10 Oliver Neuville 01.05.1973 Borussia Mönchengladbach 64 9
20 Lukas Podolski 04.06.1985 FC Bayern München 35 20
Jan Schlaudraff 18.07.1983 Alemannia Aachen - -

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

i'm ok with the Fritz nomination but i don't understand the Trochowski and Schlaudraff nomination.

Trochowski is the most overrated player in the last 5 years and wtf is Schlaudraff?

Where is Simon Rolfes?

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Trochowski overrated? Umm...no

We could argue about the time of his nomination - he certainly isn't in best form and he is needed in the U21. But he is definitely a candidate for EURO 2008. Btw Trochowski has always played good in the U21 even if he lacked form.

Löw would have nominated Patrick Helmes but since he is injured he decided to nominate Jan Schlaudraff which is ok for me. Better than Kuranyi. But I still don't understand how he can nominate Madlung, Hitzlsperger and Hanke? Wtf!

Anyway, congrats to our new boys:

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Trochowski is a competent midfielder to fill the new post.

Fritz does not appear to be a reliable defender to me.

Schlaudraff , can't comment on him. Haven't watched too many Aachen games.

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Its a friendly. Good chance to see some youngsters. Particularly interested to see Schlaudraff (fck I'm gonna have hard time with that name...)

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Schlaudraff comes from the youth of Bor. M'Gladbach which created a lot of great german footballers.
He is considered to be a big talent since a very young age. He needed more time than i expected due to the fact that Mönchengladbach had a phase where they bought simply too many half decent players preventing the good youth players of Gladbach to get a place.
Schlaufdraff has a good technic and pace. He also scores goals (like he showed last season in the 2nd league and now again) unlike Asamoah, Kuranyi and Hanke and we shouldnt forget that its not the easiest thing to score goals in a team like Aachen.

Trochowski...
For me currently the most talented german midfield player and this includes also all A-Team players. What he lacks is that he doesnt show his abilities constantly but u could see in his U21 games and for Hamburg what great talent he has (superb passing and technic).

Fritz is for me an improvement to Owomoyela and Friedrich. Sure he cant compete with Lahm (there are prolly anyways very few in the world on this position who can) on the RB position but he is a good 2nd option.
I know that some ppl doubt his defence qualities based on recent Bremen games but nobody should forget that Fritz sometimes looked bad simply because the whole Bremen defence was in a very bad shape.
In the Barcelona game u could see his real abilities, he was the one who made Ronaldinho invisible and had at the same time very good offensive actions (he fits well into our philosophy of fast attacking football).

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

I'm really excited for Trochowski, he deserves it.

I wouldn't make a big deal out of these new nominations, they are being given a try because so many regulars are injured (Huth, Mertesacker, Deisler, Borrowski).

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

does this mean trochowski can't play for the u21 against england?

and who's the clown who listed huth as a regular ahead of metzelder..hehe

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

oh sorry, just saw the post in the u21 thread

but my 2nd question still stands

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Fritz should not play , the only good thing about him is his tackling. but otherwise he runs in circles.
Trochowski is great the only bad thing about him is that he tries to score verytime he's 20m-0m from goal

 

Re: [10.07.06] Germany vs. Georgia: Friendly [R]

Fritz is very good offensively, too. (Better than friedrich for sure) I still prefer jansen over him.
Trochowski tries to score sometimes from distance but that´s a good thing since his ranged shots are always very dangerous.

 

Hey Friedrich scored today But you are right. Still not convinced on the Fritz yet, but I'm not sure why Merte was not called up, he's done pretty alright since coming back, probably not risking him, but what I'd do is not play him against the Georgians but play him against Slovakia.

 

Löw didn't nominate Mertesacker after a long talk with the best coach in the world: Thomas Schaaf. He just made 2 games after his injury and still has problems with his heel after every game. Löw would be a dead man if Mertesacker would return with an injury to Bremen. ;-D

 

A Friedrich-Friedrich CB duo is good enough for these two games.

 

agree, with the support of Ballack and especially -> Frings<- they should do alright.

 

Starting eleven for Germany:

Hildebrand - C. Fritz, A. Friedrich, M. Friedrich, Hitzlsperger - Odonkor, Ballack, Trochowski, Schweinsteiger - Hanke, Podolski

24th minute. Schweinsteiger scores when a Trochowski free kick was headered out by Georgia and as it landed to Ballack he set up Schweiny from 25 yards out and he just blasted it into the right corner.

1:0 to Deutschland

 

Red card Podolski. Well deserved, what a stupid action from Lukas!

PS: Great Schweini goal!!!

 

2:0 fur Deutschland

Our skipper

Schweiny assist