This should be fun. I'll just include my inclusions for Ghana Dede Ayew Anthony Annan Kevin Prince-Boateng Will do my 1st XI later
I know he would be up against Lahm, but Wilkshire would be a definate chance. Chipperfield and Holman as impact players off the bench. Schwarzer still for Keeper as well.
Chipperfield was horrible vs Germany. For Germany, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Müller were the best in my opinion. And surprisingly, Friedrich was the more confident and more secure centerback. Generally, we've seen a lot of very good CMs/DMs in this group, and in Müller and Krasic 2 great options for RM, but the left back was pretty much every teams weak position, and there was no really convincing striker. Also, the only convincing CAM was Özil, and only in the first match... so I'd scrap the CAM and use a formation like Serbia, with 3 dms/cms, something like this: --------------- Cacau? --------------- A. Ayew ----------------------- Müller --- Schweinsteiger - KP Boateng ---- --------------- Annan --------------- Sarpei? - Friedrich - Vidic --- Lahm -------------- Schwarzer -----------
Chipperfield is getting older and slower, thus playing the whole game at LB - especially with no true LM in front of him to help, was never going to show him in the best light. Just one of the many tacticalblunders for that game. However in the next 2 games when coming off the bench into a LM role he has been very good, thus why I said to have him as an impact player. I still think Wilkshire is unlucky to miss out, probably our best player in all three games and the only one v Germany that could hold his head high. Lahm is the world class RB though - he can even hand ball on the goal line identical to Kewell's and get away with it.
I didn't get to see todays game yet. Just highlights so far. He only gave up 1 goal that he was never going to stop and he made a 1 on 1 stop from Ozil. He can't have done too bad.
He wasn't bad, but you could see that he had trouble with catching long range shots. Neuer made one mistake after a corner, but otherwise was very stable. He never let the ball bounce.
I heard something like that his name is Kingston but FIFA made a fault last world cup with his name, so he decided to stay with Kingson. Don't know it is true though.