Predicted line-ups shamelessly copy-pasted from kicker. Sidelnikov - Engel, Logvinenko, Dmitrenko, Kirov - Nurdauletov, Bogdanov - Konysbaev, Khayrullin,Schmidtgal - Ostapenko Trainer: Beranek Neuer - Lahm, Boateng, Mertesacker, Schmelzer - Khedira, Schweinsteiger - T. Müller, Özil, Podolski - M. Götze Trainer: Löw
Neuer - Schmelzer, Höwedes, Mertesacker, Lahm - Schweinsteiger, Khedira - Draxler, Özil, Müller, Götze
Your right I thought boetang was still injured, but he's not.. I think it should've been boetang/howedes
Well at least he finally gets a chance at CB. Given that it's vs Kazakhstan I think we can ok this one. The real joke is Mertesacker starting there, not Höwedes.
Is this game televised in the US or only via internet feed? I tried a formation on FIFA13 with Germany last night that had a similar line up with no striker/false 9. It worked really well since I don't use crosses to a target man much. Not that a game translates to anything, just found it interesting.
Hopefully no one is going to play up top, cause the whole point is that the 4 attackers will be completely free to swap around and try different ways to break down the D. All 4 should rotate through even if one of them spends a little more time up top than the others, at least once they learn to play strikerless.