about 45 minutes for this one - do we even need PbP on this one? GERMANY kahn, friedrich, worns, baumann, hamann, bobic, kuranyi, ballack, schneider, lahm, frings LATVIA kolinko, sepanovs, astafjevs, zemlinskis, blagonadezdins, isakovs, bleidelis, varpakovskis, rubins, prohorenkovs, lobanovs
well, if it's at all possible, it'd be nice. i can't watch or tape this one, but if you can't do it i can always find a pbp somewhere else. go latvia! i was hoping germany would start schweinsteiger for this one. that kid looks like an exciting young player. i'd just like to pat myself on the back by saying he was on my fifa play station scunthorpe united side.
7' verpakovskis (henceforth to be known as maris) wins a danger FK on the left FK blocked at the wall
15' latvia take some fo the ball now and work around beidelis hauled down outside the area on the right rubins lining this one up... fired low into the area, baumann boots away for a CK... headed out and bleidelis handles on the return
18' prohorenkovs led into space. but his cross his over the area latvia holds possession and rubins crosses over everything
rubins held as he is beating friedrich to a lead pass, yellow for the german 21' FK headed away by baumann, but latvia regain and win a CK
25' lahm takes off down the left and wins a FK next to the area frings to serve... kuranyi fouls trying to get up in the air
Why are German defenders, especially Worns, getting allowed to be able to do this? That, along with Ruud's goal should have been a yellow card.
bobic stripped by zemlinskis as he comes into a dangerous position in fron of the area 28' the keeper races out of the area to fetch a deflected schneider cross and puts out as frings pressures near the sideline